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Sugarloaf Golf Club: Course Intelligence
Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed Sugarloaf Golf Club in 1985 on a piece of Carrabassett Valley, Maine ski-resort summer land in the western Maine mountains, two hours north of Portland. The course operates as the summer-season complement to Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort and was one of the earlier major-architect ski-resort summer-golf projects in New England. Jones Jr. routed the eighteen holes through the natural Carrabassett Valley terrain with the Sugarloaf Mountain peak visible from many of the holes — the routing climbs and descends through enough vertical that several tee shots play from elevations that drop 100 feet to the fairway.
The course plays around 6,956 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. Jones Jr. routed the holes along the Carrabassett River for several stretches, with the natural water features and the rugged Maine mountain terrain producing one of the most-photographed New England mountain routings of the 1980s. The fourth hole is a 388-yard par-4 with a tee shot played from an elevated tee; the eleventh, called "String of Pearls" for the chain of natural ponds along the fairway, is one of the most-discussed mountain par-5s in New England golf.
Sugarloaf Golf Club is open to public daily-fee play at premium rates with discounts for Sugarloaf Resort lodging guests. The hospitality model emphasizes the destination summer-resort experience — Carrabassett Valley sits in a remote part of western Maine, and visitors typically stay multiple days to play the course and explore the surrounding mountain area.
Western Maine mountain climate compresses Sugarloaf's playing season into May through October, with the firmest conditions in late August and September. Frost delays push early tee times into late morning through May and again in October. The course closes through Maine winter and reopens when the soil thaws. The autumn color through the surrounding deciduous and mixed forest is one of New England's most-photographed seasonal landscapes.
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