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Notable golf clubs and courses in Pennsylvania Pages in category "Golf clubs and courses in Pennsylvania" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
By 1987, the 400 acre complex consisting of one hotel and a nine hole golf course was in bankruptcy. Joseph A. Hardy III, founder of the 84 Lumber Company, bought Nemacolin at an auction that year and reopened the complex as an upscale hotel and resort. In the following years Hardy expanded the property to encompass 2000 acres.
The golf course at the Buckwood Inn was the first to be designed by A. W. Tillinghast, a renowned golf course architect. [1] [10] In 1919 the resort was a host site for a U.S. Women's Amateur won by Alexa Stirling. [8] John D. Rockefeller stopped over to play golf at the Buckwood Inn in 1920. [11]
With a USGA course rating of 77.5 [2] and 175 bunkers, it is generally regarded in the golf community as one of the most difficult in the United States. It features large, extremely fast, and undulating greens. All are original, but the 8th was moved several yards to the left to make way for the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the late 1940s.
This hotel is situated on a 5,500 acres (22 km 2) wooded site in Skytop, Pennsylvania, at an elevation of 1,500 feet in the Poconos.The property includes a 75-acre lake, 30 miles of hiking trails, and an 18-hole golf course. [4]
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