Grand View Lodge (Preserve)

The 18-hole Preserve course at Grand View Lodge is the shortest layout at this impressive 45-hole golf complex. The guest accommodations date back to 1919 but golf took another seventy years to arrive, when the first 36 holes opened for play in 1990.

In The American Golf Resort Guide, author Daniel Wexler describes the Preserve course as “the shortest and lowest-rated of the resort’s courses, with the outward half led by the 492-yard wetlands-flanked 6th and the 438-yard 5th, an awkward test where longer hitters must lay up, then face a wetlands carry to a two-tiered green.

Coming in, the highlights lie in three stronger par fours (the 424-yard 10th , the 440-yard 11th and 412-yard dogleg right 15th) while a pair of shortish par fives, the 473-yard 16th and 519-yard 18th, provide late scoring opportunities.”