West Virginia's monument is The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, a mountain resort whose Old White course—C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor in origin, later restored—hosted PGA Tour golf (the Greenbrier Classic) and still sits among the most historic inland resort courses in America. The Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, built on old mine ground, is Dye at his most dramatic in the hills. Oglebay in Wheeling (Jones and Palmer courses in a municipal park-resort) and Glade Springs near Daniels give the north and south public-resort options that punch above the state's profile.
The culture is Appalachian and resort-tinged: a world-class hotel in the mountains, then nine-hole town courses and charity weekends in river valleys. The Tour date came and went; the Greenbrier's aura did not. Season is April to October in the mountains, with fall color as the bonus round. University golf and hospital scrambles fill the local calendar.
West Virginia's signature is Old White's template holes against a mountain backdrop and Dye's coal-country theater. Visitors come for the Greenbrier package; locals play Oglebay and the valley clubs. The state's golf is easy to reduce to one resort and worth a second look: municipal-park championship golf in Wheeling and a Dye course that could only exist on reclaimed ground.