Chautauqua Golf Club

Golf at Chautauqua dates to July 18, 1914, when the first round was played at the club serving the Chautauqua Institution, the lakeside educational and cultural community on Chautauqua Lake in far western New York. Seymour Dunn and Donald Ross both left their mark on the club, and in the early 1920s Ross designed the Lake Course, the flagship, known for open tee shots and demanding approaches to small, often steeply sloped greens. When Xen Hassenplug built the club's second 18, the Hill Course, in the mid-1980s, three of Ross's original holes were absorbed and the Lake Course was rerouted. In 2020 the club adopted a 36-hole master plan by architect Chris Wilczynski that calls for restoring the Lake Course to Ross's original design, including Ross-style bunkering, tree removal and greens expanded to their old shapes. Fourteen World Golf Hall of Famers, among them Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, have played here.