Arnold Palmer Signature Course at Stonewall Resort

Overview: The Arnold Palmer Signature Course at Stonewall Resort is a mountain layout in Roanoke, West Virginia, set among the rolling hills and water views of Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park. Palmer’s routing uses elevation changes, wooded edges and open lake-facing ground to create a course with a clear Appalachian identity. At 7,149 yards and par 72, it has the scale of a championship resort course, but the strategy comes from choosing sensible landing areas and managing uneven ground rather than simply chasing distance.

History: The 18-hole Arnold Palmer Signature Course opened to the public on June 1, 2002, as part of the Stonewall Resort development. The course was built within the state-park setting and helped turn the lake property into a year-round destination. Palmer’s design team worked with the existing landscape, keeping the relationship between golf, forest and shoreline central to the resort’s identity.

Did You Know? Stonewall Jackson Lake is West Virginia’s second-largest recreational lake, according to a contemporary account of the resort’s development. The course’s waterfront views are therefore not a decorative pond feature but part of a much larger public landscape, with the golf routing occupying one section of a broad lake-and-park environment.