Est. 1923 · William Flynn (Cascades Course); Donald Ross (Old Course, 1913)
Why we love this place
History runs deep here. The Old Course claims the oldest first tee in continuous use in America, and Flynn's Cascades is mountain golf at its finest, dynamited straight out of the Alleghenies. We love a resort where you can literally walk through the roots of the American game.
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About The Homestead
The Cascades Course at The Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, opened in 1923 to a William S. Flynn design and is regarded as one of America's finest mountain courses. Flynn took a site that both A.W. Tillinghast and Seth Raynor had reportedly declined, dynamiting through limestone to carve fairways that flow with the folds of the Allegheny Mountains, and completed the routing in about a year. The resort's golf heritage runs even deeper: its Old Course opened in 1892 as a six-hole layout, grew to nine holes by 1898, and was expanded to eighteen by Donald Ross in 1913. The Old Course is credited with the most historic first tee in continuous use in the United States. Together the two courses trace distinct chapters of American golf design at one of the country's oldest resorts.
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