Engineers CC, CC of Fairfield or Wannamoisett

[Lawrence Largent]

Thinking of making the trip up north for one of these qualifying sites. Could someone chime in with a suggestion and some other courses in the area that would be worth playing. I'm leaning toward Wannamoisett and does anyone have any information on Wannmetonomy which is in the same area designed by Seth Raynor. Thanks for taking the time to look and for your suggestions.


Lawrence

[Tom_Doak]

Lawrence:

Engineers is the most unusual of the bunch, Wannamoisett easily the best of the three.  But both of them have really severe greens [wild contour at Engineers, speed and contour and tilt at Wannamoisett] so playing a qualifying round at either would be nerve-racking unless you are a great putter.  If not, Fairfield is a very good Raynor course without such wild slopes.

[michael j fay]

If your intent is to qualify I would suggest Fairfield as it requires the least amount of course knowledge.

Wannamoisett is the best of the lot but at every qualifier I've seen there a few of the Northeast Amateur players are in the field and they shoot a couple under par. The course is hard enough at par of 69 but knowing you need 134 for an Open or Amateur slot is an awful stern test.

At Fairfield you will have a nice day and not face the type of trepidation you would see at Wannamoisett or Engineers.

[Robert Mercer Deruntz]

You will face the strongest fields at Engineers and Fairfield. one year there were 19 of us who have played in the Open competing for 9 spots.  There will be less spots in the New England, but the the field will be considerably weaker than metro-NY.  The problem with the Open Q today is that at 18 holes there is little time to recover from a bad hole or two and players can have the one round wonder with absolutely no chance of half-way competing for a sectional spot.  A new problem with the Q in the East is that it is usually contested on short classic courses while the Open is played very long tough courses.  

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