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bar, as well as the new Surf and Turf Restaurant. Turf can handle golf packages for
one person to groups as large as 50. Your stay includes a free welcome cocktail, free
sleeve of balls, and $10 casino voucher.

You can count on a royal flush at Locust Hill Golf Club, the home golf course for
Charles Town and Jefferson County. One of the more exciting golf courses in the
four-state area, Locust Hill features an abundance of water hazards that come into
play on 11 holes as well as lots of trouble along both sides of most fairways. This
course requires patience and maybe some good fortune to get through a round
without some gambling payoff.

Locust Hll Hole 8 Par 5 A healthy 7000 yards from the tips make
Locust Hill a formidable challenge. A
tough four-hole stretch opens things
on the front nine. You don’t need to
try your luck here. Just hit it straight
and make your pars. The reachable
par 5 eighth at Locust Hill will delight
risk-takers. Going for the green in two
may lead to a jackpot or you might bust
by finding the water around the green.

The second nine at Locust Hill is known
for what is one of the best collection of
closing holes the mid-Atlantic offers.
Holes fourteen through eighteen will
make or break your round. You will
find water coming into play on each
shot from the par 4 fifteenth. The par 3
sixteenth leads to a built-up island green
with an almost uphill shot over the pond.
You can make up a shot, or two, on the Locust Hll Hole 16 Par 3

par 5 seventeenth if you avoid the misfortunes that border the hole. Locust Hill
wraps up with a big time par 4 that plays 455 yards from the back tees with water
on the right and in front of a long well-bunkered green.

Several other regional courses are
included in golf packages in Charles
Town. The Woods in Hedgesville and
Cacapon Resort in Berkeley Springs
are the other two gems in the Eastern
Panhandle of West Virginia. The Woods
has the 18-hole championship Mountain
View course as well as the Stony
Lick course, an 18-hole mid-length
layout. Robert Trent Jones designed
Cacapon Hole 18 Par 5

some magic at Cacapon with 18 holes
of uninterrupted golf set in the wilds of a West Virginia State Park. Just across
the state line to the south you’ll find two adventurous tracks at Rock Harbor in
Winchester. The Rock and Boulder courses feature lots of rock and water, six sets
of tees, and several of the most exciting holes you’ll ever play. Travel a bit farther

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