Homestead Resort Golf

Year-round fun and adventure in a tranquil setting suits the best description for Homestead Resort. This premier luxury resort was founded ten years prior to the American Revolution and is considered as national historic landmark that has been attracting both the local and foreign visitors from all parts of the globe. The area is said to be home for the state’s largest hot springs, the oldest alpine ski resort, and three championship golf layouts designed by famous golf icons like Donald Ross, William S. Flynn, Rees Jones, and Robert Trent Jones Sr. Along with its rich history that extends nearly 2 ½ centuries as well as the majestic sceneries, Homestead is by all means, Virginia’s pride for relaxation and luxury in abundance. The Cascades Course, the Old Course, and the Lower Cascades Course are three of the world’s finest greens that The Homestead offers to its guests.

The Homestead – Cascades Course

The Cascades Course of Homestead has been cited as “The Best Public Course in Virginia for 2010” by GolfWeek Magazine, and among Golf Digest’s “America’s 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses”. Designed by the legendary golf course architect William S. Flynn, the Cascades is set through the varied terrains of the breathtaking Allegheny Mountains that offers the par 72, 6,679 yards of play from the layout’s longest tees. This fabled mountain golf course is also where Sam Snead had his humble beginnings. For those who have just started to develop their golfing skills, the layout may penalize them for unfair hazard placements or forced carries. The course was given a slope rating of 137 and a course rating of 73.0.

The Homestead – Old Course

Home to the nation’s oldest first tee that is continuously operating, the Old Course of The Homestead is an 18-hole facility that boasts of its evolving as well as challenging golf rounds. The layout features the par 72, 6,211 yards of play from the longest tees as well as the challenging rough that would require positioning on the greens. It has the slope rating of 120 and a course rating of 69.7. With the constant updates of Rees Jones and William S. Flynn, golfers will have the challenging tee times on the layout’s abundant fairways that give the mot shots a downhill lie, side hill, or uphill to smallish greens.

The Homestead – Lower Cascades Course

The Lower Cascades Course of The Homestead is all about competitive golfing. Designed by the older Robert Trent Jones, the layout features the wide-open fairways, runway tee boxes, exaggerated breaks on severe green contouring, and the strategically placed bunkers, all placed on the 6,579 yards of golf. This 18-hole par 72 course was given a slope rating of 127 and a course rating of 72.2. Majority of the holes at Lower Cascades are set in a beautiful valley with a few that winds up onto the ridges. When playing from the back tees, golfers would be required to take the long and straight approach shots all the way through the course’s undulating greens.