James Baird State Park Golf Course

Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed James Baird State Park's course in 1948 — one of the earliest RTJ Sr. public designs in the Northeast. The layout plays through the rolling hills of Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley, an hour north of New York City. At state park pricing for a genuine Jones Sr. design, it's a piece of architectural history that most golfers drive past on their way upstate.