Longmeadow

Located close to the Connecticut state line, the 18-hole layout at Longmeadow Country Club is divided by a main road with holes 2 to 9 laid out on the north side and the remainder set out on the other side. Largely unheard of beyond the boundaries of the Bay State, the course is one of Donald Ross’s stronger designs, featuring as it does seven par fours that measure at least 425 yards in length.

Highlight holes ay Longmeadow include the 439-yard 2nd (doglegging left to the target), the 315-yard 5th (playing across a gully to an offset green) and the downhill 425-yard 8th, where the fairway crosses an old creek en route to a narrow green.

The course was chosen by the USGA to host the US Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship in 1995 and the male equivalent, the US Junior Amateur Championship in 2005. A new millennium restoration by Ron Pritchard has breathed new life into this classic old course and the results of this project will surely see it continue to thrive up to and beyond its centenary in 2022.