Overview

The Golden Horseshoe Golf Club has been named one of the “Top 100 Resort Courses in America” by Golfweek Magazine, and its three courses are all Audubon sanctuaries, making them peaceful patches of paradise.

The Gold Course was designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones Sr. It is one of the best examples of traditional golf course architecture in the world. Opened in 1963, Jones Sr. called the Gold Course his “finest design.” In 1998, Rees Jones was the architect of a course renovation that remained faithful to the original design but expanded the appeal of the course for higher-handicap players while simultaneously lengthening the course from the back tees.

The Green Course, on the other hand, was designed by “The Open Doctor” Rees Jones, Jones Sr.’s son, and opened in 1991. The layout is carved from the same terrain as the Gold Course and is more typical of contemporary trends in golf course architecture. It also stands out as the first father-son tandem of side-by-side layouts.

The Spotswood Course was named for Colonial Governor Alexander Spotswood and is the elder Jones’s 1964 update of the Williamsburg Inn’s original 1947 nine-hole course.