Somerset Country Club occupies a stretch of the Laurel Highlands, the ridge-and-valley plateau of southwestern Pennsylvania where the Alleghenies roll through Somerset County in long, forested waves. The terrain here is genuinely hilly — the kind that shapes a golf course whether the architect planned for it or not — and the cooler temperatures and reliable summer rainfall keep the turf lush well into the season. It is golf played at elevation, with the light and air of the mountains rather than the manicured flatness of a lowland parkland.
As a private members' club, Somerset carries the character common to Pennsylvania's smaller country clubs: a tight-knit membership, a course that rewards local knowledge, and a layout that has grown into its landscape over decades. These clubs tend to be unpretentious in the best sense — serious about their golf, less so about spectacle.
Somerset County is perhaps best known nationally as the site of the Flight 93 crash on September 11, 2001, a reminder that this is a community with its own history and identity well beyond the fairways.
