Champion Lakes is east of Pittsburgh and north of Ligonier on Route 711 surrounded by farmland and forests in the Laurel Highlands.

The layout provides for a series of fairways along narrow, tree lined corridors as well as those which are open and links-style with heavy rough at the fairways borders. It's an entertaining layout with the occasional sand trap along the fairways but mostly greenside, several water hazards, numerous doglegs, and uphill/downhill/sidehill lies provided by the changes in elevation. It was designed and owned by Dick Groat and Jerry Lynch, two ball players from the Pirates' 1960 Championship team, and has four sets of tees from the back tees it's 6,608 yards, 72.5/131, course/slope ratings.