Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club

Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club opened in 1924 as a nine-hole course on the former Blackmar Farm overlooking Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario, land once owned by a countess from Paris. The architect of that original nine is unknown, and despite a long-running rumor, Robert Trent Jones Sr. did not design it; instead he began his legendary career here as the club's first head golf professional in the early 1930s. In the 1960s a member committee planned an expansion, and Geoffrey Cornish of Amherst, Massachusetts, redesigned the existing holes and added a second nine; the eighteen-hole course was dedicated on May 25, 1969. In 2014 Robert Trent Jones Jr. sketched a new ninth green in honor of his father, and he dedicated it in May 2015 by striking the first ceremonial putts.