Play Our Outstanding Fairways Amid Our Forest At Saratoga Lake
The heavily wooded site of our course at Saratoga Lake Golf Club has been family-owned for 110 years and was originally managed for timber production. We're very proud of the beautiful course we've created for you here.
It's a distinctive course, not an open field and not surrounded by houses. In creating the fairways and greens, we took great care to preserve the trees and views. From the deck of our pro shop, you can see 18 miles away to the Southern Adirondacks. You won't be able to see neighboring fairways when you play.
It's a distinctive course, not an open field and not surrounded by houses. In creating the fairways and greens, we took great care to preserve the trees and views. From the deck of our pro shop, you can see 18 miles away to the Southern Adirondacks. You won't be able to see neighboring fairways when you play.
“We have a long-term commitment here to raise the
quality level of golf played in the area,”
Owner - Alec Mackay
Our course serves as the home club for the Stillwater High School golf team. The team members have had three conference championships since they began to play our course.
The layout was designed by Michael Ingersoll of the LA Group and opened for play in 2000.
The layout was designed by Michael Ingersoll of the LA Group and opened for play in 2000.
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This picturesque course on the south end of Saratoga Lake offers you lots of elevation changes. This is truly a shotmaker's course designed for golfers who like to use all their clubs when they play. You're not going to take out your driver very often. It's not extra-long shots that succeed here, it's shots that are carefully placed.
Here are a few of our most popular holes:
On No. 1, a par-4 that plays at 349 yards from the back tees and 312 from the front, has a swath of wetlands that cross the fairway and split it in two. Be sure to lay up on your drive because it's difficult to carry the wet stuff on your first shot.
This is a course with intriguing and picturesque par-3s, like the 3rd, a shortie that measures 144 yards from the back and 128 from the front. The green is surrounded by a hilly area with woods to the right and the left.
The 8th hole, a par-4 measuring 320 from the back and 263 from the front, offers a challenging carry over a pond just off the tee. You're actually on an elevated tee box hitting down over a pond. After crossing the pond, you need to go back up the fairway to the green. The fairway itself is mowed in the shape of an eight.
On most of the holes on our back nine you'll find holes where very little earth was moved except to carve out bunkers and create the greens and tees. The fairways follow the natural layout of the rolling landscape.
Everyone's favorite is the 14th, a par-3, measuring 173 yards from the tips and 118 from the front. Again the tee box is on a hill and the green is far down below. You'll be hitting to a very large green and will be traveling through a tunnel of trees until you leave the hole.
Another par-3 on 17 (158 yards from the back and 108 from the front) takes you over a huge ravine to the green. You take your hit and head across a bridge to the other side of the rift and the green.
You'll finish up on an exciting par-5 (460 yards from the back and 337 from the front). It seems short, but you'll have to take your tee shot over wetlands to reach the fairway. Then it's uphill all the way to the green.
Our distances, ratings and slopes: black tees, 6,270 yards (71.6/121); white tees 5,823 yards (69.9/119); gold tees, 5,113 yards (men 66.9/116; women 71.5/127).
Here are a few of our most popular holes:
On No. 1, a par-4 that plays at 349 yards from the back tees and 312 from the front, has a swath of wetlands that cross the fairway and split it in two. Be sure to lay up on your drive because it's difficult to carry the wet stuff on your first shot.
This is a course with intriguing and picturesque par-3s, like the 3rd, a shortie that measures 144 yards from the back and 128 from the front. The green is surrounded by a hilly area with woods to the right and the left.
The 8th hole, a par-4 measuring 320 from the back and 263 from the front, offers a challenging carry over a pond just off the tee. You're actually on an elevated tee box hitting down over a pond. After crossing the pond, you need to go back up the fairway to the green. The fairway itself is mowed in the shape of an eight. On most of the holes on our back nine you'll find holes where very little earth was moved except to carve out bunkers and create the greens and tees. The fairways follow the natural layout of the rolling landscape.
Everyone's favorite is the 14th, a par-3, measuring 173 yards from the tips and 118 from the front. Again the tee box is on a hill and the green is far down below. You'll be hitting to a very large green and will be traveling through a tunnel of trees until you leave the hole.
Another par-3 on 17 (158 yards from the back and 108 from the front) takes you over a huge ravine to the green. You take your hit and head across a bridge to the other side of the rift and the green.
You'll finish up on an exciting par-5 (460 yards from the back and 337 from the front). It seems short, but you'll have to take your tee shot over wetlands to reach the fairway. Then it's uphill all the way to the green.
Our distances, ratings and slopes: black tees, 6,270 yards (71.6/121); white tees 5,823 yards (69.9/119); gold tees, 5,113 yards (men 66.9/116; women 71.5/127).