Lake Placid Club - Mountain Course

The Mountain Course was laid out in 1910 by Alexander H. Findlay, who came to the U.S. from Scotland in the early 1880s and became one of the pioneers of American golf; he is said to have played almost 2,400 courses, and in 1926 he tried, without success, to build a six-hole course at the Vatican. In 1931 Alister MacKenzie, designer of Cypress Point and Augusta National, remodeled it. Shorter than the club's Links Course, it has smaller greens, tree-lined fairways, more hills and blind shots, and five par 3s; Mount Marcy, the highest peak in New York, is visible from the 4th tee. The 10th and 11th are back-to-back par 5s of more than 600 yards each, and the club calls the 631-yard 10th Jack Nicklaus's favorite on the course.