Shuttle Meadow - Connecticut - USA

Shuttle Meadow Country Club is a private course with limited membership, as to assure that no tee times will be required. Those lucky enough to get on will find a Willie Park Jr. design, including his devious putting surfaces and imposing bunkers.

No. 18 certainly has the best-named of the bunch with the “Big Mouth,” a large cross bunker that will separate the good drives from the bad on this short par five. Those who are clean off the tee can carry in two and even consider eagle...those who miss the target will be forced to cede a shot to their opponent and lay up. A notable principle’s nose exists just short of the green at No. 14, however Park’s thunder is stolen by Bobby Jones, who played the course in days of yore and is now memorialized in the hole’s name: “Bobby’s Lure.”

The course claims its own “Amen Corner” in the wooded section of the property, although this trio comes in much shorter than its Augusta namesake. Still, these two short par fours offer punishment for those who bite off more than they can chew. And, as at Augusta, the most nerve-wracking of them might be the shortest: No. 6 asks for a “simple” shot...to a Park-style green fronted by a creek and surrounded by sand.