(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The Church Pews bunker on the fairway of the third hole at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. is shown in a Sept. 21, 2015, file photo. The course in Oakmont, Pa., already has hosted a record nine U.S. Opens. It now will be an anchor site for U.S. Opens and will host three more through 2049. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A recent study from Breakfast Balls Golf gives Pennsylvania a ranking of fourth in the United States of America for the best state to play golf. According to the study, Pennsylvania has 674 golf courses, 353 driving ranges, and four platinum golf clubs. The data from this study involved the surrounding number of courses for golf, number of platinum golf clubs and the number of driving ranges in each state, among other metrics. California, Florida and New York are the only states in the country that have more platinum golf clubs than Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was also the state that hosted the 2025 U.S Open golf tournament of the PGA Tour at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, outside of Pittsburgh, from June 12th-15th, 2025. Oakmont, as well as Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, are also featured inside the top ten of a list from GolfDigest of their one-hundred greatest golf courses in the United States of America, with Oakmont at #5 and Merion Golf Club East at #6. The only states that ranked higher than Pennsylvania in this Breakfast Balls Golf study for the best state for golf were South Carolina, Florida and Wyoming.