This very private course has long been regarded as one of the toughest in all of golf. Original owner George Arthur Crump put an enormous amount of time and effort into designing this course, although the other primary architecture credit goes to the legendary Harry S. Colt. Since then, C.H. Allison, A.W. Tillinghast, and Perry Maxwell have overseen a few minor changes to the course.

Among Pine Valley's trademarks are Hell's Half-Acre (a barren wasteland on the 7th hole), The Devil's Asshole (an extremely deep bunker on the 10th hole), and the famous 18th, which incorporates many different elements of golf into one spectacular finishing hole.

This is a very private club; membership is by invitation only and women are permitted to play the course only on Sunday afternoons.