Jim -
Conn. has many fine courses.
My question is the following:
Conn., NY, NJ, PA, and MA are all endowed with:
- lots of old money;
- lots of old private clubs dating to the Golden Age;
- a wide variety of interesting land forms; and
- large golfing populations,
but of those states only Conn. does not have a top 50 course. It doesn't seem to have any courses that rank with the Shinnies, the Merions, the PV's or TCC's. Just curious as to why?
None of this is meant as a criticism. It's just a historical anomaly for which I've never heard an explanation. Given its history and demographics, I would have thought that Conn would have at least as many great courses as its neighbors.
Could the answer be connected with local boy Mark Twain's line that "golf is a good walk spoiled"? Did Twain shame everyone into thinking that playing golf was frivolous or a sign of a weak character? At least in Connecticut.
Just curious...
Bob