Golf in Drexel Hill

Drexel Hill is one of Delaware County's most densely populated communities, an inner Philadelphia suburb in Upper Darby Township where row houses and twin homes line streets that were built out almost entirely in the 1920s and 1930s. The community is suburban in name but urban in character — SEPTA Media/Wawa and Norristown lines serve it, walkability is genuine, and the population density rivals Philadelphia neighborhoods across the city line. Golf in Drexel Hill draws from the surrounding Delaware County communities rather than from the borough itself, where available land for courses has been fully absorbed by residential development for nearly a century. The courses accessible to Drexel Hill residents are spread through the surrounding townships and the Chester County border, requiring brief drives that take golfers quickly into more open terrain.