Pioneer Hills Golf Course

Saratoga Springs, NY · 9.2 mi away

Upstate New York's most challenging semi-private layout: water everywhere on the back nine.

Altamont, NY · 21 mi away

Orchard Creek Golf Club is a public course in Altamont, New York, about 25 minutes outside Albany, built through the hillsides and creek banks of a still-operating apple orchard run by the Abbruzzese family. It opened for play in 1999 and was designed by Paul Cowley. The hilly terrain along the Bozen Kill Creek was left largely intact, producing blind tee shots and dramatic uphill and downhill holes rather than heavily graded fairways. Apple trees line many holes, blooming in spring and offering fruit to golfers in fall, and the course has a reputation for fast, undulating greens. Orchard Creek and the adjoining orchard business were listed for sale in 2026 after nearly 60 years of family ownership, though the course remained open to the public as of that listing.

Warrensburg, NY · 35 mi away

Cronin's Golf Resort is a family-run, 18-hole course along the Hudson River in Warrensburg, New York, in the Adirondack foothills. The course traces to 1930, when it opened as the Queen Village Golf Club, designed with the involvement of Patrick J. Cronin, then superintendent at Glens Falls Country Club. Robert Cronin, Patrick's son, purchased the course in 1945 and added cottages to attract vacationing families, later renaming it Cronin's. A second nine was added in 1967 near the river, though repeated ice damage from spring flooding led to later rebuilding of some holes. Now run by a third generation of the Cronin family, the resort combines golf with overnight cottage accommodations and is positioned as a family vacation destination rather than a strictly golf-focused club.