Craig Wood Golf & Country Club

Established in 1925 as the Lake Placid Golf and Country Club, this Adirondack course was laid out by Seymour Dunn, a Scottish-trained architect and longtime Lake Placid resident from a renowned golfing family. In 1954 the Town of North Elba, which still owns and operates the course, renamed it to honor Craig Wood, a Lake Placid native who became one of his era's finest players. Wood won 21 PGA Tour titles and played on three United States Ryder Cup teams, but 1941 was his crowning year: he captured the Masters wire-to-wire, then added the U.S. Open at Colonial, becoming the first player to win both in the same season. The par-72 layout stretches roughly 6,554 yards through high-peaks scenery, finishing with a demanding 18th that plays over a ravine and uphill to a tree-guarded, sloping green.