Fox Chapel Golf Club is considered a classic Seth Raynor & Charles Banks’ design. In 1923, Seth Raynor was commissioned to layout and design a golf course for the membership to enjoy, be challenged and want to play every day.
Raynor became a sought after architect and designed over 75 courses. Unfortunately, he passed away before he could finish Fox Chapel Golf Club and his protégé Charles Bank completed the remaining holes on the course.
Fox Chapel Golf Club is a combination of open fairways with strategically placed bunkers and pushed up green complexes. The most unique aspect of the course remains the challenging and difficult putting surfaces. Through years, bunkers have been taken out and replaced with trees planted to distinguish holes.
In 2000, a microburst took out the majority of Osage orange trees that were originally planted to keep cattle from leaving its area on the farm which was the original purpose of the land before becoming a golf course. There is still a barn, a historical landmark, on the property next to the 13th Tee.
Along with the 2002 Curtis Cup, Fox Chapel Golf Club has hosted a number of golf tournaments during its illustrious history. In 1997 and 2011, the Club hosted the Lesley Cup, the longest running Team Amateur Tournament in the country. In 1985, the Women’s US Amateur was contested at the Club along with the 1968 US Senior Amateur.
Traditionally, the club prides itself in hosting amateur events such as the Pennsylvania Amateur and Open; US Open Women’s Qualifier; Curley Semple Cup, 1st President’s Memorial; Women’s WPGA Four Ball Stroke Play and Western PA Amateur and Open.