Est. 1891 · Willie Park Jr.
Why we love this place
Why we love it: Maidstone feels like a slice of Scotland dropped onto the Atlantic dunes. Firm turf, sea breeze and Willie Park Jr.'s clever, natural holes reward imagination over muscle. It's understated, walkable and gloriously old-school, links golf the way we wish more courses still played it.
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About Maidstone Club
The Maidstone Club was established in 1891 in East Hampton, New York, taking its name from the English town many early settlers had left behind. Golf arrived in 1894 with a rudimentary layout, but the course celebrated today took shape in 1924, when Scottish architect Willie Park Jr., a two-time Open champion whose work at Sunningdale and Huntercombe shaped modern design, laid out the seaside links on the Gardiner peninsula, with his brother John building it. Set amid dunes, marsh and beach grass along the Atlantic, Maidstone is prized as one of America's most authentic links experiences, its wind-exposed holes, natural contours and ocean views evoking the courses of Scotland and England. Compact yet strategically rich, it demands imaginative shotmaking rather than length, and remains a beloved, understated benchmark for classic seaside golf on Long Island's East End.
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