Blackheath is on the north side of Rochester on Rochester Road across from the Blue Heron Environmental Area.

The course is a links/heathland style layout with the fairways bordered by tall heather or fescue rough. There's frequent sand bunkering along the fairways and greens including numerous pot bunkers with a pond and a stream impacting play on several holes. There's three sets of tees, the championship tees are 6,768 yards, (73.0/137, course/slope), the forward tees, 5,354 yards, 70.8/121, course/slope, designed by Kevin Aldrich in the late 1990s.