Sistersville Country Club

Sistersville Country Club sits in one of West Virginia's more quietly compelling small towns — a place that earned its name from two sisters who once owned the land and grew into a prosperous Ohio River oil boomtown in the late 1800s. That petroleum heritage left Sistersville with an unusual architectural richness for a town its size, and the country club has long served as the social anchor for a community that knows how to take care of its own.

As a private members' club in this part of the Mountain State, the course almost certainly works with terrain that demands creativity — the hills and hollows of the upper Ohio Valley don't offer many flat lies or easy routings, which tends to produce courses with real personality and a few holes that stay with you long after the round.

At par 70, this is a layout that likely rewards precision over raw power. Members here aren't playing for length; they're playing for their home course, which in a town like Sistersville means something.