My favorite course in fall is The Garrison, across the Hudson River from West Point. On a Saturday afternoon, when you’re teeing off from the first hole, you can look down over the academy’s grey granite walls, and hear the roar of the crowd at Michie Stadium; cannons booming when Army scores, sending smoke over the mountains like old-time musket fire. Suddenly, there’s nothing between you and this iconic fort but 236 years of history. http://www.vintagehudsonvalley.com/golf.shtml