LECOM Health Challenge

Course Insight

Peek’n Peak Resort & Spa is a golf and ski resort in Western New York with two golf courses, the Upper and Lower. The Upper Course, designed by John Exley, features a lot of elevation changes and scenic views, but no blind shots. It is not particularly long, but is plenty challenging; when the Peek’n Peak Classic was held there in 2002-07 the winning score ranged from 9-under to 15-under. Two of the more interesting holes are contrasting short par 4s on the front nine. The 345-yard fourth, playing downhill, offers a chance to drive the green, while the 330-yard seventh is an uphill dogleg that annually ranked in the top five hardest holes on the course.

New Event

The LECOM Health Challenge represents a return to Peek’n Peak Resort for the Web.com Tour, which previously played an event there in 2002-07. The new sponsor is the Erie, Pa.-based Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), with the Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation serving as host organization. “From the moment we purchased Peek’n Peak Resort in 2011, it was a desire to bring the PGA TOUR back to the Peek,” said Nick Scott Sr., president and owner of Scott Enterprises. “We had a lot of work to do to bring the resort up to new higher standards. We have accomplished our goals with the golf courses and the facilities onsite and are now ready to showcase the ‘new’ Peek’n Peak Resort.”