The familiar hand of renowned architect Robert Trent Jones is immediately recognizable on Malone's two championship golf courses. While adding a new course in 1987, Jones took 15 of the old holes and intermingled them with 21 new to make 2 world-class golf courses.

EAST COURSE
The East Course (Par 72) has a dynamite front nine originally designed by Donald Ross and Willard G. Wilkinson in the 1930's. A 1991 Golf Week Magazine article rated it the "Best Pure Classic Nine" in the world and said it "includes a fabulous Redan, a roller coaster short par-five, and pure-links style bunkering."

Hole five on the front is every golfers' personal favorite. It is a tree-lined par five dogleg to the right. The tee shot must carry a deep gully, and land high on the left side of the fairway. The rolling fairway slopes steeply to the right, carrying poorly hit balls into the woods, and the approach shot is to a postage-stamp green well bunkered by sand traps in front and sharp drop-offs to the back and left.

The back nine is a testament to Robert Trent Jones' design with 90-foot drops from tee to greens and 150-yard carries over spring fed ponds. The par five 10th is a monster hole that requires both distance and accuracy. The fairway is cut through a stand of towering pine trees, its large undulating green protected by typical Robert Trent Jones configuration of strategically placed sand traps. The par 3 14th is literally breath-taking as the tee is perched high above a small plateau-like green. An Adirondack Life magazine article described it best, "If there is golf in heaven, it must be like the East course."

WEST COURSE
The West Course (Par 71) calls for the best in concentration and execution. It is a diverse layout of rolling tree-lined fairways with strategically placed, massive white sand traps. Robert Trent Jones' layout was best described in a New York Golf magazine article. "The challenges are numerous: strong wind effect, major water hazard, serious trouble behind the green and sand bunkers ringing the putting surfaces." The front nine is the scoring nine going out in par 35. The back nine is more narrow and offers many natural hazards. The par four 11th has a very narrow landing area requiring a dead on tee shot. The back nine also features two excellent water holes, the par three 13th and par four 15th, which, depending on wind direction, can make club selection extremely important.

Malone Golf Club
79 Golf Course Rd.
Malone, NY 12953
518-483-2926
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