Bellefonte Country Club

Bellefonte Country Club sits in Ashland, Kentucky, a small city along the Ohio River in the northeastern corner of the state. The course traces its origins to Willie Park Jr., the Scottish architect and two-time Open Championship winner who designed layouts across America in the early twentieth century. Park's original routing has been modified over the decades by Art Schaupeter and Ferdinand Garbin, both regional architects who worked in the Ohio Valley and adapted courses to evolving equipment and maintenance standards. The property occupies rolling terrain characteristic of the Appalachian foothills that define this part of Kentucky. The routing moves through mature hardwood corridors and across elevation changes that provide both strategic interest and natural drainage. Holes typically play through tree-lined fairways with greens that reflect the push-up construction methods common to Park's era, though subsequent renovations have introduced modern contouring and bunkering. Bellefonte serves as a traditional private club for the Ashland community, offering golf alongside social and dining amenities typical of regional country clubs established in the early to mid-1900s. The course provides a mix of length and angles suited to member play rather than championship competition. Its location near the tri-state area where Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia converge places it within a region rich in industrial history tied to steel and coal, and the club has long functioned as a gathering place for local families and business leaders.