Kaluhyat

Experience One of the Most Challenging Courses in New York

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Kaluhyat (the Oneida word for "the other side of the sky") was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and features dramatic elevation changes and spectacular views. At 7,100 yards, distance off the tee is a bonus, but accuracy is a must on this classic shot-maker layout. Come play and you'll understand why Kaluhyat is consistently rated as one of the most challenging layouts in New York State.

Awards & Accolades
AwardAwarded ByYear
Best Golf Courses in New York Golfers' Choice by GolfPass 2025, 2022
#1 Best Golf Course in New York Casino Player Magazine 2024
Top 50 Casino Golf Courses Golfweek 2024, 2022 - 2020
Platinum Award Association of Golf Merchandisers 2020
Best in New York Golf - Public Courses Northeast Golf Magazine 2018
America’s 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses Golf Digest 2017
Best Resort Golf Courses Golfweek 2017, 2016
Best Golf & Casino Resorts Golf Vacation Insider 2016
Best Courses You Can Play State by State Golfweek 2015
100 Greatest Public Courses Golf Digest 2015
Golfweek’s Best - Casino Courses Golfweek 2015

 

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Past Events
  • 2016 PGA Professional Championship
  • 2015 Men’s State Amateur Championship
  • 2015 Golf Channel Amateur Tour
  • 2015 NCAA Division 1 Golf Tournament 

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Course Info

Designer: Robert T. Jones Jr.

Early Season & Late Season Rates: Opening through May 15 and October 16 to Closing day

18 HolesOpening - May 18

 Fri - Sun 

 Mon - Thur 

Public $125 $140 $125
TS Rewards Card and Resort Guests $95 $115 $105
Twilight Rate* $70 $95 $90
Same-Day Replay $50 $75 $65

 

May 16 - October 5

18 HolesOpening - May 18

 Fri - Sun 

 Mon - Thur 

Public $125 $175 $160
TS Rewards Card and Resort Guests $95 $145 $135
Twilight Rate* $70 $120 $110
Same-Day Replay $50 $80 $75

*Twilight starts at 3:30pm in the prime season and at 2:00pm in the early and late seasons.

Other Rates & Fees

Riders: $30 for 18 holes
Rental Set: $50 for 18 holes, includes six balls
Outdoor Driving Range: $15 for 30 minutes

Environmentally Protected Areas

The wetlands and the natural grasslands are important elements of this course. Please use care when playing. Golf carts are prohibited from these areas.

Pace of Play

Our pace of play goal is 4 hours and 45 minutes for 18 holes on our golf courses. There are times when the pace of play will be shorter or longer based on cart path policies and business levels. If you’d like to play at a faster or slower pace, please contact a Golf team member at 315.361.7850 and we’ll assist with scheduling the appropriate tee time.

For groups of eight or more players, please call 315.361.7850 to speak with a team member about group options.

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2025 Champions Package

Elevate your next golf trip at Turning Stone Resort Casino. Our Champions Package includes:

  • A two-night stay at The Brook, The Tower or The Lodge
  • One round at each of Kaluhyat, Atunyote and Shenendoah
  • Special same-day replay rate at all three courses
  • Exclusive rates at Sandstone Hollow and Pleasant Knolls

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2025 Multi-Play Pass
Turning Stone Greens

It’s Time to Entertain, Reward and Impress
The 2025 Multi-Play Pass gives you the opportunity to entertain your friends and family or your business clients and associates with 8 rounds of golf on either of our acclaimed Kaluhyat or Shenendoah golf courses for just $899*, a potential savings in greens fees of $500.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Eight prepaid 18-hole rounds on Kaluhyat and/or Shenendoah*
  • Reserve tee times any day of the week and any time of the day
  • Each round includes cart, range balls and practice time

Pick up your Multi-Play Pass at the Shenendoah Golf Shop, Golf Superstore or call 315.361.7509 for details.

*Limit of four rounds per day per Multi-Play Pass holder. The Multi-Play Pass is only valid during the 2025 golf season. It is non-refundable and cannot be redeemed for cash or partially redeemed. Reselling golf rounds is prohibited and will result in forfeiture of the Multi-Play Pass. Cannot be combined with any other offers or coupons. Void if reproduced or copied. Subject to availability.

The Shenendoah Clubhouse
Front view of the clubhouse with a pond and beautiful garden in the foreground

Styled to resemble a stone and cedar Tudor mansion, The Shenendoah Clubhouse is a grand yet unobtrusive structure that blends perfectly into its surroundings. A balcony oversees the first and 18th holes. The beautiful setting is further showcased once guests step inside. The entryway floor is mdae of fine ceramic tile. Overhead is an antique-finished chandelier, which gently illuminates the cherry-accented woodwork and floor-to-ceiling columns. An artistically etched railing surrounds the foyer's circular staircase. Carved stone fireplaces in the entry hall and ballroom add flares of elegant warmth.

  • Size: Approximately 28,000 sq. ft.
  • Banquet area: 5,500 sq. ft. banquet room can seat up to 400 guests, can be divided 
  • Conferences: Adirondack Room: 2,215 sq. ft., Appalachian Room: 1,854 sq. ft., Catskill Room: 1,837 sq. ft.
  • Restaurant: The Grille at Shenendoah, with indoor or patio seating

Hours of Operation

November: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Hours of Operation may change due to a function or weather

Breakfast Menu
Lunch Menu
Drink Menu

Ship Sticks
Golf sticks in a mailer logo of Ship Sticks

There’s a better way to play with your own clubs.

Simply fill out your information on the Ship Sticks website and only worry about getting yourself to the course. Now available for all Turning Stone courses.

It’s never been more convenient to golf with your own clubs.

Solo Rider

Solo Riders are available to rent upon request. Please call 315.361.8545 for details (72 hours notice needed).

Hole #1 - Sky Journey Begins

As you start your journey on the Kaluhyat course, you might reflect on the Oneida creation story, which tells how the journey of people began with a woman who fell from the Other Side of the Sky. Her descendants are believed to have fashioned humans, animals and all things pleasant and unpleasant on this side of the sky.

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Hole #2 - Just Believe

Make a well-placed swing of faith at this point in your journey, then proceed along the path through the evergreen trees. The founder of the Iroquois League was thinking of the White Pine trees when he imagined white roots extending from a central government north, south, east and west where sachems would sit together to provide unity and stability for the league.

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Hole #3 - Hidden Challenges

Bodies of water such as the one that borders this tee once provided the Oneidas and other Indian nations with an important means of transportation. The creation of waterways in Oneida legend reveals the inherent duality of nature. The benevolent brother creates rivers that flow both ways but his twin laments the ease with which humans will travel and causes the rivers to flow in one direction only.

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Hole #4 - At Wood's Edge

At this point in your journey you enter a stand of trees. According to Iroquois custom, when emissaries from other nations neared a meeting place at another village, they were met by the principal chief of the inviting nation at the place where the forest opened onto the village. This ritual, known as the "Welcome at the Wood's Edge", included the kindling of a fire, a pipe was lit and passed around, and the chief delivered a formal welcoming address.

Hole #5 - Among the Forest

Throughout history the Oneida Nation and its Iroquois brethren have been faithful custodians of their natural resources - such as the Beech, cherry and maple trees found in the wooded area. The willingness to share these valuable treasures demonstrates their unparalleled tradition of hospitality and generosity of spirit.

Hole #6 - Challenge of Courage

As you draw on reserves of bravery at this challenging par five, take a moment to absorb the diverse surroundings. Among these hardwoods and wetlands, Oneida warriors of old braved their own challenges to survive along side their brothers, the fox, raccoons, rabbits, and deer that continue to thrive here today.

Hole #7 - Meadow Spirit

This open meadow calls to mind the vast farmlands that were once an important part of Oneida life. Corn, beans and squash were such important staples in the Iroquois diet that they are called the Three Sister. The Oneida revered their womenfolk for the important role they played in planting, tending and preparing these crops.

Hole #8 - Whispering Grasses

The close ties that exist between the Iroquois and the land on which they live have led to their deeply spiritual nature throughout history. Oneida and American soldiers fought a critical battle together during the revolutionary War against the British just east of her at Oriskany. Listen carefully and you may hear the spirits of long-ago warriors whispering among the native grasses.

Hole #9 - Journey of Choice

Life is full of choices. At this hole, players must choose their destiny: whether to play to the right or the left of this split fairway. The Oneida nation faced a difficult choice of another kind at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Although many of their Iroquois brethren sided with the British, the Oneidas chose to support the colonists.

Hole #10 - An Illusion

So near, yet at the same time so far away. This may appear to be short hole, but the elevated green makes this hole more challenging than it may fist seem. The dual nature of this par four is reminiscent of the Oneida perspective in which the universe manifests both creative and destructive forces.

Hole #11 - Uncertain Passage

This would be a good place in your journey to recall that accuracy and strategy may help you reach an uncertain, until the future awaiting the Oneida nation at the end of the Revolutionary War seemed rather uncertain, until the Oneidas became the first of New York State's native people to begin rebuilding their long-lost homelands.

Hole #12 - Straight & Narrow

Beech, Maple and Hickory are some of the towering trees through which a straight shot is key here. Oneidas used the wood of the hickory tree to fashion sticks for playing lacrosse, a team sport that has been apart of Iroquois culture for centuries. In addition to imparting the quickness, stamina and strength men would need for hunting and war, the sport of lacrosse was a gift of the creator and was used to settle communal disputes, appeal to the spirits, and even to heal the sick.

Hole #13 - Big Water

The name for this hole refers to the large pond along their fairway. It also happens to be the English equivalent of the expression that Oneidas once used to refer to the Atlantic Ocean. Big water might also describe the world, prior to the spontaneous expansion of earth in the Oneida creation story.

Hole #14 - Hidden Truth

This par four features a handsome stand of Hemlock trees and is perhaps more challenging than it looks. Having lived past 100 yeas old, chief Shenandoah is said to have compared himself to an aged hemlock tree through whose branches a hundred winters had whistled. 

Hole #15 - Peaceful Glen

The peaceful surroundings at this tee reflect a commitment made by all nations of the Iroquois to live their lives in harmony with all the earth. A turning point in the history of peace among several northeastern tribes began with the creation of the League of the Iroquois in the 1600s, an alliance among five (and later six) Iroquois nations.

Hole #16 - Edge of the Sky

The name of this hole refers to the boundary between the Sky-world of Oneida legend and our own, and hints at the view players will have when they reach the plateau overlooking the green with trees on the left and wetlands to the right.

Hole #17 - Turtle Den

Snapping Turtles are one of the animal that inhabit the area around this tee. In the Oneida creation story Turtle plays an important role, as the creature deemed strong enough to support the woman who feel to earth from the sky. Haudenosaunee legend has said that the sections visible on the turtle's carapace represent the thirteen months of a lunar calendar, providing a link between the spiritual and physical worlds.

Hole #18 - Journey's End

Oneidas have traditionally boiled the legendary syrup and maple products from the sappy of the Sugar Maple, which are the trees you see here. In the Oneida worldview, nothing in nature truly ends. This par four marks the end of one journey, but also the beginning of another.

course tour videos

  • Hole #1 - Sky Journey Begins

    As you start your journey on the Kaluhyat course, you might reflect on the Oneida creation story, which tells how the journey of people began with a woman who fell from the Other Side of the Sky. Her descendants are believed to have fashioned humans, animals and all things pleasant and unpleasant on this side of the sky.

    Book Now

  • Hole #2 - Just Believe

    Make a well-placed swing of faith at this point in your journey, then proceed along the path through the evergreen trees. The founder of the Iroquois League was thinking of the White Pine trees when he imagined white roots extending from a central government north, south, east and west where sachems would sit together to provide unity and stability for the league.

    Book Now

  • Hole #3 - Hidden Challenges

    Bodies of water such as the one that borders this tee once provided the Oneidas and other Indian nations with an important means of transportation. The creation of waterways in Oneida legend reveals the inherent duality of nature. The benevolent brother creates rivers that flow both ways but his twin laments the ease with which humans will travel and causes the rivers to flow in one direction only.

    Book Now

  • Hole #4 - At Wood's Edge

    At this point in your journey you enter a stand of trees. According to Iroquois custom, when emissaries from other nations neared a meeting place at another village, they were met by the principal chief of the inviting nation at the place where the forest opened onto the village. This ritual, known as the "Welcome at the Wood's Edge", included the kindling of a fire, a pipe was lit and passed around, and the chief delivered a formal welcoming address.

  • Hole #5 - Among the Forest

    Throughout history the Oneida Nation and its Iroquois brethren have been faithful custodians of their natural resources - such as the Beech, cherry and maple trees found in the wooded area. The willingness to share these valuable treasures demonstrates their unparalleled tradition of hospitality and generosity of spirit.

  • Hole #6 - Challenge of Courage

    As you draw on reserves of bravery at this challenging par five, take a moment to absorb the diverse surroundings. Among these hardwoods and wetlands, Oneida warriors of old braved their own challenges to survive along side their brothers, the fox, raccoons, rabbits, and deer that continue to thrive here today.

  • Hole #7 - Meadow Spirit

    This open meadow calls to mind the vast farmlands that were once an important part of Oneida life. Corn, beans and squash were such important staples in the Iroquois diet that they are called the Three Sister. The Oneida revered their womenfolk for the important role they played in planting, tending and preparing these crops.

  • Hole #8 - Whispering Grasses

    The close ties that exist between the Iroquois and the land on which they live have led to their deeply spiritual nature throughout history. Oneida and American soldiers fought a critical battle together during the revolutionary War against the British just east of her at Oriskany. Listen carefully and you may hear the spirits of long-ago warriors whispering among the native grasses.

  • Hole #9 - Journey of Choice

    Life is full of choices. At this hole, players must choose their destiny: whether to play to the right or the left of this split fairway. The Oneida nation faced a difficult choice of another kind at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Although many of their Iroquois brethren sided with the British, the Oneidas chose to support the colonists.

  • Hole #10 - An Illusion

    So near, yet at the same time so far away. This may appear to be short hole, but the elevated green makes this hole more challenging than it may fist seem. The dual nature of this par four is reminiscent of the Oneida perspective in which the universe manifests both creative and destructive forces.

  • Hole #11 - Uncertain Passage

    This would be a good place in your journey to recall that accuracy and strategy may help you reach an uncertain, until the future awaiting the Oneida nation at the end of the Revolutionary War seemed rather uncertain, until the Oneidas became the first of New York State's native people to begin rebuilding their long-lost homelands.

  • Hole #12 - Straight & Narrow

    Beech, Maple and Hickory are some of the towering trees through which a straight shot is key here. Oneidas used the wood of the hickory tree to fashion sticks for playing lacrosse, a team sport that has been apart of Iroquois culture for centuries. In addition to imparting the quickness, stamina and strength men would need for hunting and war, the sport of lacrosse was a gift of the creator and was used to settle communal disputes, appeal to the spirits, and even to heal the sick.

  • Hole #13 - Big Water

    The name for this hole refers to the large pond along their fairway. It also happens to be the English equivalent of the expression that Oneidas once used to refer to the Atlantic Ocean. Big water might also describe the world, prior to the spontaneous expansion of earth in the Oneida creation story.

  • Hole #14 - Hidden Truth

    This par four features a handsome stand of Hemlock trees and is perhaps more challenging than it looks. Having lived past 100 yeas old, chief Shenandoah is said to have compared himself to an aged hemlock tree through whose branches a hundred winters had whistled. 

  • Hole #15 - Peaceful Glen

    The peaceful surroundings at this tee reflect a commitment made by all nations of the Iroquois to live their lives in harmony with all the earth. A turning point in the history of peace among several northeastern tribes began with the creation of the League of the Iroquois in the 1600s, an alliance among five (and later six) Iroquois nations.

  • Hole #16 - Edge of the Sky

    The name of this hole refers to the boundary between the Sky-world of Oneida legend and our own, and hints at the view players will have when they reach the plateau overlooking the green with trees on the left and wetlands to the right.

  • Hole #17 - Turtle Den

    Snapping Turtles are one of the animal that inhabit the area around this tee. In the Oneida creation story Turtle plays an important role, as the creature deemed strong enough to support the woman who feel to earth from the sky. Haudenosaunee legend has said that the sections visible on the turtle's carapace represent the thirteen months of a lunar calendar, providing a link between the spiritual and physical worlds.

  • Hole #18 - Journey's End

    Oneidas have traditionally boiled the legendary syrup and maple products from the sappy of the Sugar Maple, which are the trees you see here. In the Oneida worldview, nothing in nature truly ends. This par four marks the end of one journey, but also the beginning of another.

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