Summit Inn at Historic Summit Inn Resort

The Summit Inn course in Farmington, Pennsylvania, represents Pete Dye's work in the Laurel Highlands region of southwestern Pennsylvania, an area better known for its historic resort golf dating to the early twentieth century. The course sits at elevation in the Allegheny Mountains, where the terrain naturally provides the kind of rolling, sometimes severe topography that became a Dye signature. The property's mountain setting means golfers encounter elevation changes and wooded corridors typical of Pennsylvania highland golf, with the design working through forested and open ground that reflects the region's mix of hardwood forest and cleared resort land.

Dye's routing here incorporates his characteristic design elements—strategic bunkering, thoughtful use of natural contours, and green complexes that reward precision—adapted to the constraints and opportunities of mountain terrain. The course serves the historic Summit Inn Resort, which has roots as a stagecoach stop along the National Road and evolved into a destination property over generations. Golf fits into the resort's broader recreational offerings in a region that includes Fallingwater, Ohiopyle State Park, and other Laurel Highlands attractions.

The course operates within the context of southwestern Pennsylvania golf, where it shares the landscape with better-known designs at nearby Nemacolin and the historic Oakmont and Laurel Valley clubs to the north. It provides a mountain golf experience shaped by Dye's design principles in a setting defined more by natural beauty and regional character than tournament history.