The Ace Club near Philadelphia, Pa.

The Ace Club is a beautiful Philadelphia-area golf course, a private facility that exposes its members and guests to excellent elevation changes, pristine conditions and a varied layout that will make you want to play again and again.

It is a restless piece of work, a course that never stops moving, with impressive elevation changes, high-banked, sloped and serpentine fairways and large, modern greens with swooping surrounds.

It's always showing you something, giving you something to think about. The big, bold bunkers aren't satisfied with just laying there on the fairway borders, waiting to digest errant drives. They like to lurk in the fairways themselves.

The greens are beautifully contoured, with sometimes severe slope and undulation as well as having multiple levels, and they frequently drop off to deep ravines.