Crag Burn Golf Course

Crag Burn is the home of the Canisius golf program.

In 1929, Frank H. Goodyear Jr., a prominent Buffalonian and his wife, Dorothy Knox, began construction on a summer estate in East Aurora called Crag Burn. An elaborate English Style house with more than 60 rooms was built and across the road, 190 acres of grounds included magnificent stables, service buildings, polo fields, and bridle paths.

Coming from a family of equestrians, Seymour Knox II, Dorothy’s brother, raised trotter horses and had a very famous one named The Red Abbey. The horse’s racing colors were blue and gold, the colors of East Aurora, which became the team colors of the Buffalo Sabres under the Knox family’s ownership and the official colors of Crag Burn, quite fittingly also the team colors for the Canisius Crusaders.

By the late 1960s, the polo fields and bridle paths near the estate’s stable were seeing very little use. The horses had long been sold, and the fields had begun to return to nature. Dorothy Knox Goodyear’s son Bobby and son-in-law, Clint Wyckoff, had the idea to turn a 190-acre parcel into a golf course, a fitting use for the beautiful landscape and existing structures and hired prominent American golf course architect and family friend, Robert Trent Jones Sr., to design the course.

Over the years, numerous course improvements have been made, some designed by Robert Trent Jones’ son Reese Jones, while maintaining the ingenuity and integrity of the original design. Today, Crag Burn reflects the original vision of its founders as a club that is simply a place where good friends can gather and play golf on one of the most challenging and beautiful courses designed.

Address:
1231 North Davis Road
East Aurora, NY 14052

Crag Burn Golf Course

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