Fred Findlay, a Scottish immigrant and renowned designer of several courses in central Virginia, built Keswick Club’s original course in 1939. The Arnold Palmer Golf Course Design Company completed a redesign of the course in 1990, elevating Keswick Club to the status of an Arnold Palmer Signature Course. Palmer said the course had “good bones” and was therefore able to keep the majority of the original design. Palmer’s touches included additional bunkers, contouring changes to the land, greens built to United States Golf Association standards, and a new tee-to-green irrigation system.
This combination has produced a perfect blend of classical and modern golf course architecture. The lush grounds, old growth trees, shrubs, and sheer beauty will allow one to step back in time while playing a modern and very challenging course.

The course layout at Keswick Club mixes the shot making demands of a championship mountainside design with an almost surreal beauty. Unlike parkland or links courses, mountain terrain courses do not need to be long to be challenging. In the mountains the ball kicks and rolls making the “shot value” great.

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Course Information
Championship Tees
Course Rating    71.8
Slope Rating      136

Tees     Yardage
Black      6,519                   
Gold       6,130
Blue       5,719
White     5,285
Red        4,732             

Original design: Fred Findlay, 1939
Renovation: Arnold Palmer Golf Course Design, 1990 to Present