Colgate University is the proud owner of Seven Oaks Golf Course, rated by Golf Digest as one of the top five college courses and the 7th best public - access course in New York State.

The course is designed by Robert Trent Jones - a living legend. He graduated from Cornell in 1930 and immediately set about his love and subsequent life's work - designing golf courses.

Jones designed Seven Oaks in 1934, but because of the great depression, the plans sat idle in a drawer until the 1950's. Ground was broken for the first nine holes in May of 1956. A year later, the course was completed for play. The second nine was completed in 1964. Seven Oaks is characteristic of all Jones' courses, which include strategic deployment of water, along with extensive tee areas and large, expansive greens.