A private island resort situated on the southern shore of Cape Cod, developer Norris W. Norris formed the Oyster Harbors Club in the mid-1920s and enlisted Donald Ross to design the course that remains largely intact today.
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A private island resort situated on the southern shore of Cape Cod, developer Norris W. Norris formed the Oyster Harbors Club in the mid-1920s and enlisted Donald Ross to design the course that remains largely intact today.
Oyster Harbors Club
Essentially a private island resort situated on the southern shore of Cape Cod, The Oyster Harbors Club was formed in the mid-1920s by developer Norris W. Norris who enlisted Donald Ross to design a solid golf course that still remains largely intact today. Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design, under the direction of Bruce Hepner, restored all the bunkers on the layout in 2009.
Donald Ross supervised the construction of the course in 1926 and he became Vice President of the club, playing many rounds on a layout that embodied his famous philosophy: "golf should be pleasure not penance." Many leading golfers – such as Gene Sarazen, Henry Cotton and Byron Nelson – visited Oyster Harbors as his guest.
A trio of holes are worthy of particular mention here; the par three 3rd (which plays over a strangely shaped bunker that was once a sandy waste area), the 434-yard 11th (where water threatens short and left of the green) and the 410-yard 18th (which doglegs sharply right to the home green).