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Van Schaick Island Country Club occupies one of the more unusual pieces of real estate in the Capital Region — an actual island in the Mohawk River, just above where it meets the Hudson at Cohoes. The club has been a fixture of the Albany-area private golf scene for well over a century, and the island setting gives it a character that no inland layout can replicate. Water is ever-present not as a design gimmick but as simple geography: the river defines the boundaries and shapes the wind, and members play with an awareness of their surroundings that keeps even familiar rounds from feeling routine.
Cohoes itself sits at the northern edge of the greater Albany metro, a former mill town whose falls on the Mohawk once powered a textile industry. The course reflects that old-money Capital Region sensibility — understated, traditional, the kind of club where the membership and the history matter as much as the layout.
For visiting golfers curious about the regional private club scene, Van Schaick represents something genuinely singular: an 18-hole members' course where the terrain is defined not by landscaping decisions but by the actual shape of an island.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back: White/Blue · men | 6,495 | 71.2 | 125 | 72 |
| Back: White/Blue · women | 6,495 | 78.1 | 145 | 72 |
| Middle: Black/Green · men | 5,814 | 67.7 | 119 | 72 |
| Middle: Black/Green · women | 5,814 | 74.2 | 133 | 72 |
| Front: Yellow/Red · women | 5,367 | 71.3 | 126 | 72 |
| Front: Yellow/Red · men | 5,345 | 65.3 | 114 | 72 |
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