The 18-hole layout at Sakonnet Golf Club dates back to 1922 when Donald Ross added nine new holes to nine that already existed. A Gil Hanse renovation in 2004 added more than 400 yards in length.
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The 18-hole layout at Sakonnet Golf Club dates back to 1922 when Donald Ross added nine new holes to nine that already existed. A Gil Hanse renovation in 2004 added more than 400 yards in length.
Sakonnet Golf Club
Located next to Church Cove on the first peninsula east of Newport, the windswept 18-hole layout at Sakonnet Golf Club dates back to 1922 when Donald Ross redesigned nine holes that had been in existence since 1899 before appending an additional nine.
Gil Hanse restored the layout in 2004 which included extending the overall length by more than 400 yards (though the course still measures a modest 6,337 yards from the back tees). Hanse also included two new holes that were in the original Ross drawings but never built.
The opening five holes still occupy open ground next to the coastline (with greens at the par three 2nd and 404-yard 4th sited yards from the water’s edge) and this stretch remains the most charming on the whole property.
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