Old Works Golf Club

Old Works Golf Course opened in 1997 in Anaconda, Montana, and holds a genuinely unique distinction as the first golf course built on a federal EPA Superfund site. The land was home to Anaconda's original copper-smelting works from 1884 to 1902, then sat idle for nearly a century before its designation as a cleanup site in 1983. Jack Nicklaus wove the industrial past into his design, preserving historic smelter relics, flues, and stone ruins as course features. Most striking are the bunkers, filled with jet-black slag left over from the copper process, which stand in vivid contrast against the green fairways. Stretching to more than 7,700 yards, the Nicklaus Signature layout is Montana's only public course of its kind and a landmark example of environmental reclamation turned into a genuinely playable, memorable golf experience.