Van Patten Golf Club's Red Course is an Armand Farina design located in Clifton Park, a suburban town in Saratoga County in upstate New York. The course sits in the Capital District region, roughly midway between Albany and Saratoga Springs, an area known for rolling terrain shaped by glacial activity and characterized by mixed hardwood forests and seasonal weather that limits the golf season to roughly April through October. Farina, a regional architect active primarily in the northeastern United States during the mid-to-late twentieth century, designed courses that typically worked within the natural topography rather than imposing dramatic earthmoving. His layouts tend to emphasize strategic variety and playability across different skill levels. The Red Course at Van Patten reflects this approach, routing through wooded corridors and over moderate elevation changes common to the region. Van Patten Golf Club operates as a public facility, serving both local residents and visitors to the Capital District. The club offers multiple courses, with the Red Course representing one of the primary eighteen-hole options available. The setting provides a traditional parkland experience with tree-lined fairways and greens that require accurate approach play, typical of northeastern public golf where accessibility and year-round maintenance challenges shape both design and conditioning standards.