A follow up post on Cohasset GC. The course is located about 20 miles from Boston along the south coast. The course has been expanded from a resort style course to what you see today. The original course was a 9 hole layout constructed in 1896 and Ross overlaid an 18 hole layout. The club flag includes Minots Light, a large stone lighthouse located off Scituate, Ma. several miles way.
The chocolate drops are hiding stone generated during construction or used to cover ledge out croppings. The native Boston granite is very tough rock so they often covered it with soil/seed and it looks quite nice as a feature.
The course plays as follows;
#1 Straight ahead par 4, elevated tee, nice Ross green site.
#2 Land locked par 3, tricky Ross green.
#3 Long par 4, elevated tee and slightly elevated green. This fairway is located on a filled in peat bog. During construction they filled in the bog with cedar trees (cedar doesn’t rot). Over time the peat settled and the trees didn't causing a bumpy fairway,
#4 Long par 5, more bumpy fairway, nice green site tucked into a ledge outcropping. Nice cross bunker in green foreground.
#5 Short par 4, elevated tee box, to a real small green site. The club tried to put a tee on the other side of sleepy Cedar Street in the 1970’s but the town said no.
#6 Short par 3, The green was formerly two tiered but I have heard its been modified to a single tier.
#7 Straight ahead par 4, not much Ross here.
#8 Comeback to #7, straight ahead, Par 4
#9 Dogleg left par 4, great original Ross green with some original South German bentgrass on it. South German bentgrass was the only bentgrass mixture available during the 1920’s for use in the Northeast.
#10 A great par 4, tee shot framed by ledge outcropping, uphill second shot to tricky green.
#11 Dog leg right par 4, land locked because of the aforementioned Cedar street, a flip wedge to a Ross green.
#12. A par 3, This hole has been modified with an elevated tee box and a green that isn’t Ross.
#13 Short, drivable par 4, elevated tee and green.
#14 Mid size par 5, Elevated back tee was added in the 1970’s, elevated green.
#15 Nice par 3, front to back green.
#16 Mid size par 4, Elevated tee to a very unique green placed on top of a granite out cropping.
#17 Par 4, Elevated tee to new flat green.
#18 Par 4, nice flowing fairway to receptive Ross green, a nice finishing hole.
Ron Pritchard did a major bunker renovation 7 years ago. This helped bring back the Ross features that a previous architect and time had erased. The club has greatly improved the fairway drainage and softened some of the bumpy fairways.