Full Cry at Keswick Golf Club

Overview: Full Cry at Keswick Hall is a Pete Dye course in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, where rolling Hunt Country terrain gives the layout its changing scale. At par 72 and 7,134 yards from the tournament tees, the 18-hole routing, but its interest comes from the relationship between the fairways, green contours and the surrounding landscape. Dye uses angles, elevation and carefully framed hazards to make the course visually varied without losing a coherent rhythm. The mountain backdrop is attractive, yet the ground immediately around the ball remains the main subject.

History: Full Cry opened for play in 2014 after Pete and Alice Dye reworked the earlier Keswick routing. The project followed a Fred Findlay design from 1949 and later Arnold Palmer Design work in 1991. Only holes 12 through 15 substantially retained the original alignment, while most of the course was remade into a new Dye layout. Full Cry has since hosted amateur championships and U.S. Open qualifying.

Did You Know? Full Cry was one of Pete Dye's last constructed courses and was built with his wife, Alice. The result is not simply a restored historic course: it is a largely new routing that deliberately leaves a small group of Findlay-era holes within the modern Dye composition.