115-Year-Old Upstate New York Golf Course Best In America

The second-best golf course in America is found in Upstate New York.

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The second-best Best Golf Course In America is Located In New York

New Yorkers looking for a new place to play won't have to travel far. Turns out one golf course in the Empire State was named the second-best public golf course in the United States.

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That's according to USA Today.

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Cooperstown is, of course, the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame. But Cooperstown isn't just for baseball.

Leatherstocking Golf Course in Cooperstown is considered the second-best public golf course in all of America.

The course travels around Lake Otsego with sharp greens and gentle hills.

"This upstate New York course has endured over a century as one of the top golf courses in the country," USA Today states about the Cooperstown golf course.

The par-72, 6,401-yard course was designed in 1909 by Devereux Emmet.

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No other golf course in New York or the Tri-State region was honored.

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