Mount Washington Resort Golf Club

The Mount Washington Course was laid out by Scottish architect Donald Ross and completed in 1915 to serve guests of the grand Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods, with the Presidential Range rising behind it. Over the following decades many of Ross's original features were altered, lost or buried. His drawings, however, survived in the resort's own files, and in 2007 and 2008 architect Brian Silva used them to restore the course over two seasons as part of a roughly $7 million upgrade of the resort's golf facilities. By comparing the plans with the course as it stood, Silva brought back features such as a "principal's nose" bunker on the fourth hole, removed trees to reopen the mountain views, and planted fescue in the fairways and roughs to cut irrigation and fertilizer use. The restored course was unveiled in August 2008. Playing to about 7,000 yards at par 72, it has hosted four New Hampshire Opens and the 2010 New England Open Championship. Silva also designed the resort's separate nine-hole Mount Pleasant course.