Immergrun Golf Course

Set amid the former Charles M. Schwab estate in Loretto, Pennsylvania, Immergrün Golf Course today operates as a public, nine-hole layout on the campus of Saint Francis University. Visitors find a compact but demanding walk of roughly 3,400 yards (par 36) routed across a hillside precinct adjacent to Mount Assisi, the preserved estate house and gardens. Limited practice space and a modest pro-shop accompany play, and the course functions as a community venue as well as a University amenity; tee times are open to the public and daily-fee play is the norm rather than a private-club model. The setting remains distinctly estate-like: mature trees bracket corridors, the terrain falls and rises toward the valley below, and several greens perch on benches cut into slope. Although the property’s historic mansion and gardens rightly garner attention, the golf course itself retains an old-fashioned scale and rhythm uncommon in modern municipal offerings. In summer, the turf plays firm and the greens—small by contemporary standards—favor precise approaches more than raw power. Because primary construction plans are not publicly accessible, the club’s current website and regional preservation sources form the backbone of what can be said with documentary confidence about the course’s authorship, age, and relative intactness.