Presidential at Hickory Valley Golf Club
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There are two 18-hole courses available at the Hickory Valley Golf Club, the Presidential and the Ambassador. The Presidential is the flagship course and it is also the longer and tougher of the two. The layout incorporates nine of the club's original 27 holes. The Presidential is nearly 300 yards longer than its sister course at 6,721 yards from the championship tees. The golf course has a nice balance of player-friendly features and challenging hazards. The wide fairways are quite forgiving, while the large, undulating greens are framed with bunkers. The signature hole is the par-4 second, which gently doglegs right, requiring a long and accurate tee shot. You're not out of trouble yet though, you'll still have to face the heavily bunkered green that also has a pond to the right.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 6721 yards | 72.6 | 136 |
| White | 72 | 6290 yards | 70.6 | 132 |
| Gold | 72 | 5613 yards | 67.7 | 118 |
| Red | 72 | 5269 yards | 70.9 | 125 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 72.6/136 | 353 | 412 | 370 | 538 | 162 | 488 | 165 | 413 | 379 | 3280 | 444 | 201 | 376 | 455 | 536 | 123 | 484 | 474 | 348 | 3441 | 6721 |
| White M: 70.6/132 | 340 | 387 | 354 | 521 | 137 | 465 | 141 | 390 | 362 | 3097 | 428 | 188 | 362 | 369 | 528 | 112 | 420 | 451 | 335 | 3193 | 6290 |
| Gold M: 67.7/118 | 314 | 358 | 314 | 494 | 118 | 430 | 111 | 368 | 321 | 2828 | 399 | 135 | 308 | 309 | 470 | 103 | 393 | 420 | 248 | 2785 | 5613 |
| Red W: 70.9/125 | 301 | 341 | 299 | 471 | 80 | 410 | 108 | 314 | 294 | 2618 | 366 | 135 | 303 | 307 | 460 | 97 | 357 | 378 | 248 | 2651 | 5269 |
| Handicap | 9 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 16 | 10 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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Thank you for the great feedback! We love hearing from you and are glad you had a good experience. We would love the opportunity to bump those 4 stars to 5. We hope you will come back soon so we can WOW you on your next visit. Until then, take care!
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Presidential is a PA Gem
A few weeks ago I tried out Hickory Valley for the first time. One time playing the ambassador and the other on the presidential. Now these are completely different courses. While I liked the Ambassador for the challenging narrow fairways and approach shots, the Presidential offers exceptional golf for many reasons.
For the public courses in the Philly area, the front nine of the Pres. is some of the funnest golf you can find. The first few holes show off the wide fairways but don’t make them easy. Multiple dog legs, lay up shots, and water keep you on your toes throughout the whole front nine. Beautiful scenery especially in the fall. After playing 3 times in the last few weeks, #5 has become one of the my favorite par 3s of any course.
The back nine plays long and narrows up a bit. Hitting low ball flight, well placed tee shots is the key to playing well. A bad tee shot will be punishing on the back, there isn’t much room for error and if caught in the trees or even the rough, your second shot will not offer much other than a punch shot to the fairway.
The conditions were also excellent. Of the three times, the fairways were lush and soft and the greens rolled well. One round was after heavy rain the day before and the fairways were drained well and the greens still held up. Other than aeration on one day, the course couldn’t have been better.
The only down side to this course is that it is heavily surrounded by large trees. While that makes the course beautiful in the fall, be prepared to lose a large amount of balls if in the rough this time of year. It’s nearly impossible to find your ball. I appreciated the grounds crew trying to blow out and manage the leaves, but there’s only so much you can do about them!
I’d recommend anyone to get out here and play this course. It offers fair prices (especially on weekdays) and is totally worth the extra buck to play over the ambassador (while that course is still fun). Just an all around fun time and it’s become one of my favorites of the 50+ public courses in the SE PA area.
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Aeration Alert
Course was in good shape but the greens were recently aerated.
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Problem verifying payment at course pro shop
The course could not verify my payment on their computer. Although the pro shop was very nice and did not hold up our round, it was disconcerting to me and I had a terrible round. I let it bother me because it was embarrassing to me. There always seems to be something unusual that happens when I use Golf Now. I used two promo codes from a prior situation for this round. The incidents were not exactly due to Golf Now per se, however, I don’t believe they would have occurred if I would simply call for a tee time. You cannot always account for the unusual things, but when I make the arrangements for myself and my friends and it doesn’t go smoothly, you get upset. For me it’s not worth the dollars saved to become upset over strange situations like greens aeration or computer glitches. Hopefully things will go smoother next time.
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Good time great course
This course is great from tee boxes fairways and green carts are old but if that’s the only downside we can live with that will play again
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Decent course with plentiful challenges
Greens were great but grass around greens and fairways was inconsistent with weedy and thin patches in key areas around the apron.
Interesting layout, lots of dogleg holes and local knowledge would have been helpful on a few holes. Pretty flat with very few elevation changes but narrow fairways and water made up for that lack of challenge. Over all a decent track for the $. Everyone working there was friendly and helpful.
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Wet conditions
Even though the course was wet and it was cart path only the pace of play was still good. Ended up hearing what they local what you made the course play better. Apparently nobody knows how to fix ball marks at this course or the greens would be even better.
Some drivable par-4
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Presidential
We’ve played the Ambassador course a few times and this was fun to play since it was so different. The length was a nice change of pace to add a different element to working the course. Greens and tee boxes were in amazing shape! Would definitely play again
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Muggy and challenging
Due to the heat and muggy weather course played tougher than normal, only complaint and this is probably due to all the rain the area is receiving is the broad leaf weeds in the rough and fringe areas. Only other observation was the amount of beer sold to the two individuals behind us, I would not have wanted to be on the road when they left the course.
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Average Player
Enjoyed the course. Pleasant staff. Noticed some of the sand traps were washed out from the previous storm(s). Golf now app.
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Worth it.
Played this course plenty of times and have really never been disappointed. The conditions are usually ok, the layout is nice and the staff are always pleasant. This day there were some areas in the fairway that were bare and a bit rough. Some of the approaches could’ve been taken care of better, mixes of weeds, grass and dirt. The rough was beaten up with a lot of bare uneven areas that would depress your lie under the actual rough. Now most of the tees were in good shape, some had high grass in spots, but for the most part ok. The greens were the best part of the course. Well maintained, even and rolled very nice. No one on the course when we got out (6:45am), which is always nice. Overall, I would play this course again. Didn’t have a great score, but I will be back to seek revenge.
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Course is challenging and in great shape.
Could not believe how nice course was considering the club house was under a few feet of water bridges were damaged not that long ago. Saw one trap that was still washed out. Other then that course was great. Plenty of bunkers I know I was in enough of them. Green's are a challenge to putt. Only negative workers on course not to considerate of the players.
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Perfect day for golf
Haven't played here in a few years. Forgot how good a course it is. Many challenging holes and conditions were very good. Greens ran somewhat medium to medium fast but rolled true.
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Poor pace of play
When I arrived, I was told that my golf now reservation was giving them issues. It took nearly 3 hours to finish 9 holes today and the course had numerous holes with poor conditions. I couldn’t wait it out any longer and went home early.
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This course to be cart part only very often. I have played the course many times and it.was cart path only 9 out of the last 10 times. There are large standing puddles on the fairway on several of the holes and the cart path has many waterways to drive through. I like the course layout but a better drainage system and better course maintanence is neccessary
This was not a "4.1"
The greens had many divots throughout..
Many weeds on the fairways
Fairways very patchy.
The course was ranked a 4.1, I gave it a 2/5 cause that needs to come down to a more realistic grade. The course was honestly a 3.3-3.4.
Very disappointing
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