Huntsville Golf Club - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Huntsville Golf Club, located in the Pocono Mountains region near Wilkes-Barre, was completed in 1995. The course is testament to the perseverance of Brooklyn-born Dick Maslow, the founder and owner of Huntsville, who moved his factory to the Wilkes-Barre area in 1958. Maslow acquired a total of 560 acres of rolling farmland and hired Rees Jones to design the private course. When Jones saw the land, he told him that he needed to purchase a dramatic 180-acre adjoining parcel to create a great golf course. Maslow did just that, and the property Jones recommended is now the site of holes 11 through 14. With so much land to work with, Jones wove together a tapestry of heathland, hardwoods, streams, and wetlands. The course takes its name from the nearby Huntsville Reservoir.

Saucon Valley Country Club - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem has three championship courses-the Old Course, the Grace Course, and the Weyhill Course-plus a six-hole short course, giving it a nifty 60 holes altogether. The history of the club is closely tied to that of the Bethlehem Steel Company. The Old Course, which opened in 1922 and hosted the 1992 and 2000 U.S. Senior Opens, is a classic parkland layout designed by the English architect Herbert Strong on softly sloping terrain that once had been a farm. The Grace Course is named for Eugene Grace, the founder of the club, who after graduating from Lehigh University in 1899, became president of Bethlehem Steel in 1916 and served as president and chairman until his retirement in 1957. The Grace Course, designed by William Gordon and his son David in the 1950s, circles around the Old Course without returning to the clubhouse, pausing at the halfway house named "Villa Pazzetti" after another Bethlehem Steel executive. The Weyhill Course, also designed by the Gordons and opened in 1968, is the most dramatic of the three, with more severe and sudden changes of elevation. Laid out over what had been a dairy farm named Weyhill Farms, the 14th and 15th play over an abandoned quarry, and Saucon Creek snakes through the property.