My next golf stop for the day was HERSHEY! Yes this chocoholic could not resist a night at the historic Hershey hotel with a round of golf on the historic course that abuts the Hershey plant. The area was having a big heatwave and most of the northern golfers feared the heat (it was about 95). This Texan felt right at home and so I played a round of afternoon golf after my morning work. The East Course which is not as old or historic was hosting a Pennsylvania junior tournament with a lot of really suffering parents LOL.The course is gorgeous and challenging with many elevation changes. I also have learned that many of these old courses (like the Donald Ross in Indiana) do not have full cart paths; that is the cart paths just go part way and then you are on your own to drive anywhere! All they ask is that you get no closer than 25-30 yards from green. Now down my way you must stay much farther back from the greens and there are always cart paths. LOL clearly we have more worry about the grass! Now I must also say that this course has really poor signs directing you between holes. And the flow is just not clear as to which direction you need to head to find the next set of tees so sometimes I had to drive up and around when the path split with no direction, and I could not alwasy assume you went right. I didn't feel so bad however, as there were several other golfers that I saw having the same problem. I did ask about this at the pro shop and they were honest that this is a problem but that the managers want to maintain the historic sense of the course and keep the number of signs on the course to a minimum. As I would find on a later course I played on the trip, however, they could have at least painted directions on the cart path.
There were a number of interesting holes and one par 3 appears to aim directly into the front yard of a house! The forward tees are at the bottom of the hill and you cannot see the landing area or flag at all, so I drove up to the back tees so I could clearly see the hole and know what was ahead of me (and to take a better picture)! The par threes were also pretty long even from the forward tees so that made it pretty challenging.
The course workers were having some problems with the heat with 2 of the cart girls' carts breaking down and all the ice melting. I must say it was no worse than a good round of golf in 100+ degree heat in Texas -- just drink plenty of water! I did pretty well by shooting and 80 too! 
The Hershey Hotel is a classic old style hotel built in 1933 and is really beautiful. Everything is geared around chocolate - when you check in they hand you a chocolate bar. I did do some shopping at the stores and also bought some golf gear although they do not have bag tags! Apparently cut these out because of economics which I found disappointing. The spa provides everything with a chocolate flair as well. 
