US 60
White Sulphur Springs, WV 24986
304-536-7862
www.greenbrier.com/the-greenbrier/golf.aspx
Price to Play
$200+
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The Greenbrier

The Greenbrier is a classic resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with over 700 rooms and a casino in the heart of the Alleghenies. It's wonderfully scenic and historic, with a grand hotel design and a setting where jackets are required for dinner. The resort has three championship golf courses open to guests, and all are first-rate: The Greenbrier, TPC Old White, where the PGA Tour event is played, and The Meadows. There's also the Ashford Short Course.

Old White was the first to be built in 1914 and designed by C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor. It has a links-style flavor to it with broad, mounded fairways lined by old growth, hardwood trees along numerous ponds and streams, a variety of shapes and styles of sand bunkers, and classic risk/reward strategies. The greens are well-defended, elevated, or protected by mounding with undulating and tiered surfaces. Macdonald's Influence presents replicas of holes from some of the more notable Scottish courses, #8 from the Redan par 3 at North Berwick, #13 after the Alps at Prestwick-the best two hotter in the world, and #15 from the Eden course at St. Andrews. It's a par 70 layout, 6,443 yards from the middle tees, 71.7/135, course/slope ratings.

The Greenbrier was originally designed by Seth Raynor in 1924, with a redesign by Jack Nicklaus in 1978 and Phil Mickelson in 2017, and has hosted the 1979 Ryder Cup and the 1994 Solheim Cup matches. The course is parkland style in nature with tree-lined fairways, a pond and a stream impacting several holes, and a generous amount of sand traps with elevated greens. It's not all that long but places a premium on accuracy and the short game with the greens crowned, undulating, and fast. It plays to 6,008 yards from the middle tees, 69.0/121, and course/slope ratings.

The Meadows Course was originally designed by Alex Findlay, with further design work by Dick Wilson and Bob Cupp. It's a parkland design on more rolling and open terrain along numerous streams and ponds, affording the best views of the surrounding mountains of the three courses here. There are four sets of tees, with the Blue tees playing to 6,269 yards, 70.1/123 course/slope ratings.

The Ashford Course, a 9-hole par 3, features old-school architectural designs such as the Punchbowl, a reverse-Redan, Plateau, Lion's Mouth, Press Hole, and Papa with hole lengths from 76 to 112 yards.