Aberdeen Golf Club 4111 Crescent Road
Crescent, MO  63025
(636) 938-9120

Matt O'Dell, General Manager
Greg Jansen, Golf Professional

Aberdeen Golf Club  opened its clubhouse in 2003.  This is a public course quite a cut above the ordinary, located on Crescent Road, immediately west of the Players Club in the Meramec River Valley.

Aberdeen is patterned after the links courses of Scotland.  While it is not possible to create an actual linksland course in the Midwestern United States, the playing characteristics, look and feel at Aberdeen are quite reminiscent of these classic Scottish venues.  Greens are typically open to running shots, wind is part of the game, bunkering is similar, with some sod wall faces, and mounds throughout the course replicate the dunes found on linksland.  Some grasses on the dunes are permitted to grow long to further enhance this appearance.  Burns also appear throughout the course to facilitate drainage and provide strategy.

In keeping with Scottish tradition, the holes have been named.  There are two lakes on the course, and while this is contrary to a true links course, they furnish the necessary water supply for irrigation.  Wee Loch is the first body of water encountered on the second and third holes, and strongly affects the strategy on the second.  Loch Myst lies between the ninth and eighteenth holes from tee to green, and will get the attention of all players.

The third hole with Wee Loch in play

A sampling of the holes...

Number four will test the player to the max, as its name, Prowess, suggests.  This long dogleg right plays 436 yards from the rear and 390 yards from the middle tees, with two fairway bunkers in the elbow of the dogleg.  The long approach is to an elevated green guarded by Timothy’s Torment, a deep sod faced bunker in front of the right side of the two level green.  Shots left or right will end up in grassy hollows, and long shots are in jail. 

Number twelve begins the long par four holes on the back side, which are all 439 yards or more, and earns its name, Tenacity.  This straightaway hole runs between dunes on the right and a burn on the left.  A fairway bunker is found in the dunes on the right, and the large green is protected by two deep bunkers. 

Thirteen could be an unlucky number at Aberdeen.  This 439 yard hole, named Burnside, plays between Twa’ Burn and Ol’ Gregor Burn and into the prevailing wind.  A fairway bunker lurks on the left side of the fairway, and the only serious trees on the course are on the right, although beyond the landing area.  A bunker is on the right front corner of the large green, the rear of which slips away from the player. 

Number Fifteen, Cunning, pictured at left, is probably the most difficult at Aberdeen.  This 452 yard monster has a fairway bunker on the left, Barry Burn on the right, and Auberdauber, a sod faced bunker on the left front of the green.  The green is average size, but the rear portion falls slightly away from the approach shot. Best bet is to run the shot on, thus avoiding the bunker.