Golf in Lancaster

Lancaster is the commercial heart of Lancaster County, where Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, Amish agriculture, and one of the most productive farming landscapes in the eastern United States converge. The county's limestone soils have generated agricultural wealth since colonial settlement, and that prosperity built a handsome city of Federal and Victorian architecture around the Central Market, one of the oldest farmers markets in continuous operation in the country. Golf here is set against a backdrop of working farmland — fields that produce prodigious harvests, silo skylines, and the occasional horse-drawn buggy on roads that parallel fairways. The county extends from South Mountain in the south to the Welsh Mountain ridge in the east, and courses occupy the upland areas where topography interrupted the most productive farm ground. Lancaster city's historic density gives way quickly to the countryside that makes this corner of the state genuinely distinctive.