New Hampshire’s Best Golf Experience Has Gilded Age Pedigree

Omni Mount Washington successful New Hampshire has a Donald Ross-designed play people successful summation to 1 of the grandest hotels successful the crippled of golf.

Erik Matuszewski

If you were to put together a database of the grandest hotels successful the world of golf, the iconic, red-roofed Omni Mount Washington in the Presidential Range of bluish New Hampshire would beryllium squarely successful the discussion.

And the Golden Age play people astatine the edifice has akin humanities and architectural significance.

The Donald Ross-designed Mount Washington people is wide considered the finest nationalist people successful a authorities that, acknowledgment to its four-season getaway destinations that afloat clasp spring/summer, autumn leaf-peeping and snowfall sports, has the fifth-highest proportionality of edifice play successful the continental U.S., according to the National Golf Foundation.

The play play is shorter successful New Hampshire and the winters tin beryllium much severe, making people conditioning a situation astatine times, but superintendent Greg Boucher and his squad proceed to do a awesome occupation pinch a people that’s steeped successful history and boasts unthinkable views of not only the upland surrounds but the gilded property edifice that dates to 1902.

There’s a spot of a divided characteristic successful the routing, pinch the beforehand 9 having much of an unfastened parkland consciousness and much subtle greenish complexes. The greens connected the backmost 9 are much “Ross-like,” pinch greater contour and much of the important drop-offs surrounding the putting surfaces the designer is champion known for. Meanwhile, the layout is surrounded by mature wood and peaks – including the visible skis runs astatine Bretton Woods – while the edifice is simply a salient backdrop throughout.

There are 27 holes successful full astatine Omni Mount Washington, pinch the opening tee for the 9-hole Mount Pleasant people almost hidden successful the trees precocious up connected the hill, conscionable steps from the hotel’s stately beforehand veranda that’s complete 900 feet long. The other 9 is rather good, pinch beardown creation bones and fun, challenging holes, giving an other (and lower-commitment) magnitude that tin make Omni Mount Washington much than a one-and-done play destination.

But nary matter really bully the play – aliases immoderate of the different activities astatine the resort, for that matter – the edifice itself will ever beryllium the scene-stealer.

Historic Landmark

Now recognized arsenic a National Historic Landmark, the edifice was built by ember and railroad tycoon Joseph Stickney, opening successful 1902, and welcomed municipality elites who traveled to the area by train from cities specified arsenic New York, Boston and Philadelphia. It has hosted presidents and dignitaries for complete a century, yet increasing into the four-season edifice it is coming that predominantly welcomes guests from New England and the awesome metropolitan areas successful the Northeast.

In summation to the sweeping upland views, the edifice boasts indoor and outdoor pools, a 25,000-square-foot spa and wellness center, eating and portion offerings ranging from the elegant 1902 edifice to a prohibition-era speakeasy tucked distant connected the little level of the hotel. There’s much than 30,000 quadrate feet of gathering abstraction and the edifice this twelvemonth reimagined each 200 of its historical rooms.

The region’s wintertime personality is different – but almost inseparable – from its summertime one, pinch the Bretton Woods Ski Area crossed the main roadworthy from the hotel. And conscionable a fewer miles away, the celebrated Mount Washington Cog Railway hauls visitors to the acme of the property’s namesake, and the highest highest successful the Northeast astatine astir 6,300 feet.

Once skis play ends and the snowfall melts, there’s a compressed model to get the play courses fresh for play – pinch an attack for turf betterment and conditioning that is overmuch different than that afforded year-round play properties.

Yet Omni Mount Washington continues to present a play acquisition that’s 1 of the champion successful New Hampshire, not to mention the Northeast, and the history – connected and disconnected the play people -- is an inextricable portion of that. More broadly, Omni’s portfolio is 1 astir historically important successful the game, pinch Mount Washington sitting alongside The Homestead successful Virginia and Omni Bedford Springs successful Pennsylvania, 2 different properties that boast lineages extending backmost good complete 100 years.

Omni continues to clasp the past arsenic it focuses connected the coming and looks to the future, whether it’s pinch its Gilded Age gems, properties that person undergone caller important play upgrades for illustration Omni La Costa Resort & Spa (California) and Omni Amelia Island Resort & Spa (Florida), aliases those newer to the spotlight for illustration Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa (Texas).

For golfers successful the Northeast U.S. and New England area, Omni Mount Washington is simply a can’t miss gem: a memorable acquisition that would beryllium worthy the sojourn moreover if it didn’t person a historical Donald Ross creation and 27 holes of play ringing 1 of the grandest hotels successful the country.