Wildwood Golf Club is a gathering spot that blends the tradition of country club atmospheres with modern day lifestyles. Our beautiful setting and outstanding team are poised to help create unforgettable experiences for our members and their guests.
The club includes an 18-hole championship golf course, driving range, 5 Har-tru tennis courts, 4 Pickleball courts, 4 Paddle courts, a Junior Olympic Pool with cabana bar and full kitchen, plus a Clubhouse with a newly renovated Bar and Dining area, private event spaces and tons of social events throughout the year for all ages!
At the heart of it all, the strength of Wildwood Golf Club is its members and the enduring spirit of camaraderie that abounds within the Clubhouse and Grounds. There is a genuine sense of belonging here that makes you feel right at home. Our members return day after day, season after season to celebrate traditions while creating new memories!
Our History
Wildwood Golf Club has had a rich and colorful history that has made us into the community we are today. We as a club value our history and find it important to showcase it.
Wildwood Country Club 1927-1940
Before this property had anything to do with golf, it was farmland owned by Benjamin HerrII and his family from 1848 until 1927. In late 1927, George Wittmer, Jr., with the financial help of Dr. W. B. Ray, acquired the rolling hills 12 miles north of Pittsburgh from Benjamin Herr's descendants and built an 18-hole golf course, a beautiful stone clubhouse, and opened the facility, which they called Wildwood Country Club. During its early years, Wildwood Country Club was the site for several major golf tournaments, including the Dapper Dan Open, which attracted some of the great professional golfers of that era, including Ralph Guldahl, Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan.
Unfortunately for Wittmer and Ray, like most country clubs at the time, Wildwood struggled financially during the Depression, and as World War II began, gasoline rationing dealt it a death blow. Considered as "out in the sticks" then, and hard to get to, the club began to lose members. On April 6, 1940, the property was sold in a sheriff's sale.
The Hubbard Boy Scout Reservation 1944-1956
Ownership of the Property changed hands two more times before John W. Hubbard, a wealthy industrialist, acquired it on October 28, 1944. Hubbard donated it to the Boy Scouts of America. For the next twelve years, the property acted as the location of the Hubbard Boy Scout Reservation which hosted scouts from all around the area.
University of Pittsburgh 1956-1960
On March 28, 1956, the University of Pittsburgh acquired the property from the Boy Scouts of America with money they received from participating in the 1956 Gator Bowl. They immediately rejuvenated the golf course and clubhouse and opened it as "Pitt-Wildwood". At this time they also used a portion of the land for football practices.
Wildwood Golf Club 1960-Present
After four years of operating at a loss, the university sold the property on June 28, 1960 to Stone Lodge, Inc., a group of members from the community, for $535,000. Members of Stone Lodge Inc. decided to re-open the old country club but under a new name, and on July 1, 1960, Wildwood Golf Club was officially established, leasing the land from Stone Lodge ever since.