I played a lot of these courses while I went to Canterbury. Hotchkiss was not a highlight of the golf season for us...lineage or not, it was terribly short and in lousy shape. Taft's course was one of the better ones - quite a bit of elevation change at Watertown and in good condition. Berkshire played out of Wyantenuck Country Club, a Banks course that was always fun to visit. Hopkins played out of some course in New Haven, it was really hilly, full of blind shots and had this funky 9th green...oh yeah, Yale! At that time, Yale was in dismal shape...Van Cortlandt Park dismal...really bad. Trinity Pawling played out of Quaker Hill in Pawling, a fun 9-holer. Avon played out of Tunxis Plantation, a public track in Hartford which held the big year-end tournament which I actually won my junior year. Other courses we played were Lake Waramaug, Hopmeadow, Wallingford and others. Litchfield is not school-owned, I don't think it ever was. I played the member-guest there a bunch of years and it is the quintessential New England 9-holer. Small, unpretentious, fun and full of people from those with money who don't flaunt it all the way down to the local teachers, tradesman and others. Southeast New England may not be golf-rich, but it is a beautiful part of the world with a lot of quirky little courses.