[Andy Hughes]

I will be in Downington, PA this weekend for a LAX tournament.  I may have some free time Saturday afternoon. Is there anything of interest very nearby?

TIA

[Karl Bernetich]

I always like Downingtown ...
http://www.golfdowningtown.com/golf/proto/golfdowningtown/

It's been a couple of years since I've been there.

[Matt OBrien]

Glen Mills is not too far from downingtown. Maybe 20 min or so

[Michael Blake]

I second Karl's response.

Downingtown is a fun course and I particularly like the first 12 holes.  Good par 3's.  Couple of interesting shorter par 4's.

I also like how the back 9 is comprised of 3 par 3's, 3 par 4's and 3 par 5's. 

[Dan Herrmann]

Honeybrook is a really nice public course in Honeybrook, PA.

If you play Downingtown, be sure to walk.  It's pretty expensive if you cart it, but it's a very easy to walk golf course.   Between the 2, I'd play Downingtown.

[Joe Bausch]

I would also suggest staying put and playing Downingtown.  Lots of fun.  Here's some pics from an early morning round there last year:

http://darwin.chem.villanova.edu/%7Ebausch/images/Downingtown/

[Jerry Kluger]

It isn't around the corner but everyone says Lederach is the place to go if you are within an hour's drive.

[ClarkW]

Ditto. I used to play Downingtown when I'd be staying in the Exton area for business. There was a twilight rate and it was a very enjoyable and easy to walk course-- whether it was for 9 holes or more!

[mike_malone]

 Downington gives you a chance to see the renovation work of Gil Hanse when he wasn't bigtime.

[Andy Hughes]

Thanks for the suggestions one and all. Downington sounds like the place to go if the timing works out.

Jerry, Lederach would be wonderful but I won't have time to make the drive there and back.

[astavrides]

Downington gives you a chance to see the renovation work of Gil Hanse when he wasn't bigtime.

What year was the renovation done approximately?

[Joe Bausch]

Downington gives you a chance to see the renovation work of Gil Hanse when he wasn't bigtime.

What year was the renovation done approximately?

1995.

[Eric Pevoto]

Summer '96

[Joe Bausch]

Summer '96

Joe Logan said this on July 7, 1996 (perhaps he was wrong on his timeline):

If the course stood tall, it may well have been thanks in considerable measure to last year's redesign work by Broadbelt, a former greens superintendent at Chester Valley Golf Club, and Gil Hanse, a young golf architect from Malvern who helped design Stonewall Golf Club in Chester County.

[Eric Pevoto]

Joe,

You (and Joe L., for that matter) are right.  That article was in reference to the Senior Open qualifier in '96. 

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