Matt
"...deserves to be seen by those who enjoy layouts from the classic period."
Who doesn't enjoy good layouts from the "classic period"?
My three favorite holes are:
#6, a beautifully molded dogleg (kind of banked) to a nicely bunkered elevated green (there is a pond through the dogleg) -- a very cool hole.
#11, a long par-4 without a single bunker, there is a pond to the right near the green. A wildly undulating green. I believe this hole along cost something like $200,000 to build...that was a lot of money in 1926-7.
#3, a beautiful par-3 over an expanse of sand, nearly tee to green.
The course is completely flat, which IMO is its major weakness in comparison to the other top courses on the cape. The course was constructed on a swampy island and cost an outrageous amount of money to build--it is largely man-made.
The greens are not crowned...a la Pinehurst...although some are elevated or pushed up. They are however among the wildest Ross greens I have run across...they rival Canton Brookside.
The course was brutilized by a hurricane in the 40's or 50's which wiped all the tall pines that gave it a Pinehurst-like look (scrub pines now days). They also have lost the wild sandy effect that Ross invisioned--wall to wall grass today.
I'd be curious if they allow raters...I'd seriously doubt it. A few years ago I wanted only to take a look around and couldn't even get on the island. I even had my brother-in-law who had many political contacts call one of the Kennedy's (because I had read that grand pa Joe had been a member), this Kennedy laughed and said he couldn't get on the island. As a kid he and some of his siblings/relatives road their bikes up to the gate to volunteer as a caddies--they were told to hit the road.
I was lucky enough to hook up with the club historian...a wonderful old gentleman who started the Boston to Provincetown airline. At the end of our day he introduced me to a fellow member who took me out for a game...this guy's father was one the founders of ANGC.