Club at Old Kinderhook

Overview: The Club at Old Kinderhook is a Tom Weiskopf course in the Ozark hills near Camdenton, where rolling ground, wooded edges and water create a varied resort layout. Its parkland character is softened by open, links-like spaces and changes in elevation, giving the course several distinct moods during a round. Weiskopf’s design uses the natural topography for strategy: the best line often depends on the shape of the land around the green rather than on a single obvious target.

History: Old Kinderhook opened in 1999 as part of a larger Lake of the Ozarks resort and residential project. The course was designed to serve as the golf centerpiece of the development while preserving the Ozark landscape and its broad views. Since opening, it has become a regular fixture in Missouri course rankings and a long-running part of the region’s golf identity. The resort setting has expanded around the original layout, but the course still derives its interest from the underlying hills and valleys.

Did You Know? Old Kinderhook is not a conventional flat resort course: it moves through Ozark terrain that alternates between wooded hillsides and more open, running ground. That mix is why the course can be described as both parkland and links-influenced. The surrounding Lake of the Ozarks landscape supplies the water and elevation that make the design read as distinctly Missouri rather than interchangeable resort golf.