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Travis Dewire

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Cohasset Country Club, MA
« on: February 05, 2011, 12:04:11 PM »
On the South Shore of Massachusetts, sits the beautiful town of Cohasset. Many year round residents, and also many summer residents. There are some absolutley magnificant houses along the coast line in town, and the small town feel is very charming. Also, very close to Boston, about 30 minutes (if that - watch for traffic though) down route 3 (like your headed to the cape).

Club was established in 1894, and Ross was hired around 1920 to expand the course. The terrain is very moving, and rocky, with lots of exposed glacial rock formations. The course is very well maintained, great bunkering, awesome green sites, tight sandy fairways you can rock the ball off of, and great people. I was fortunate to play the course in 05, with an old girlfriend who worked in the shop. The pro let me right out with her, no questions asked. I was really surprised to how well I was treated as a guest, and not even a guest of a member.

Here is one article taken of the Ross Society web page, and a link to the club's website, with the hole lay outs, if anybody is interested. The club hosts various Mass Golf Association events, including local qualifiers, and the woman's or junior am, with in the last couple of years. If anyone ever has the chance to get out here, I highly recommend it. A very enjoyable place to spend your afternoon. And your close to the water!



http://www.donaldross.org/Default.aspx?pageId=857154


http://www.cohassetgc.org/club/scripts/custom/custom.asp?NS=PG&PAGECFG=FLASHGOLF

Joe Sponcia

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Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2015, 09:06:46 PM »
http://www.mgalinks.org/championships/4ball/Cohasset_history.pdf

This was a great write up on the course.  I would love to see an in-depth photo tour.  The 4th looks like an interesting hole.
Joe


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Mark McKeever

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Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2015, 08:31:51 AM »
Wow.  The course tour makes me want to see more!!

Mark
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Ian Andrew

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Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2015, 09:00:18 AM »
The strength lies on the clubhouse side of the road.
Opener is awesome and there are great holes in abundance.
Lots of rock outcrops, wonderful fairway undulations and great green sites.

The weakness lies across the road.
The holes used to flood regularly and the club undertook a rebuilding project with Ron Pritchard.
He was limited to how he could place fill and what he could do with those fairways.

The stretch coming home is outstanding, particularly the first short four.
I would heavily recommend you seek this course out.

 
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ANTHONYPIOPPI

Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2015, 10:55:54 AM »
That's my writeup on Cohasset. It is really worth seeing. Punchbowl green on the 9th is very cool. Not sure there are too many Ross greens of that ilk.

Anthony


Dan Kelly

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Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2015, 01:34:14 PM »
Just a little note of interest:

My sister-in-law, Cindy Churchill, grew up in Cohasset. Her father was a fine golfer -- with whom, alas, I never got to play.

I asked her if he played at Cohasset CC and if he was ever club champ.

Her reply:

"My father did play at the Cohasset Golf Club. I imagine he was the club champion, probably more than once. George started playing golf at the age of 8 and won his first golf competition in 1923 at age 15 at the Bass River Country Club.  He then went on to play until he was in his late seventies or early eighties.  When I was growing up, we had dozens of silver trophies, Paul Revere bowls, silver pitchers, trays, vases and golf figures mounted on bases on display. Guess I should have paid more attention to his victories but we did not walk around the course after him. Only once when my parents and older sister played at Pebble Beach did I walk around the course with them. My brother stayed in the car reading 'Gone with the Wind!' "

(I will note, in passing, that, unlike the thread title, my sister-in-law got the name of the club right!)
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ANTHONYPIOPPI

Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2015, 03:00:54 PM »
When I was researching Cohasset, I found very little in the way of members playing in state events. It turns out that Cohasset members did not consider it their home course, but their summer course. Most were from Boston and vacationed in Cohasset, about 20 miles away. The home course for many if not most Cohasset members was The Country Club.


I like that story Dan.


Anthony


Joe Sponcia

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Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2016, 09:11:06 AM »
http://www.cohassetgc.org/club/scripts/custom/custom.asp?NS=PG&PAGECFG=FLASHGOLF


Anthony,


#9 does look like a fantastic green for the length of the hole.  If you let the website hole tour sit, it scrolls through multiply shots of the layout.  The rock outcroppings throughout the routing looks really unique. 
Joe


"If the hole is well designed, a fairway can't be too wide".

- Mike Nuzzo

Ronald Montesano

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Re: Cohasset Country Club, MA
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2016, 10:09:22 AM »
Travis, I get a "missing page" when I click this link: http://www.donaldross.org/Default.aspx?pageId=857154

Is this what you meant to post? http://www.donaldross.org/Cohasset-Golf-Club

If not, can you check it and repost?


As far as a photo tour goes, if you go to the club's FLASH tour (reposted here for ease of use) you won't need one, as each hole is portrayed via multiple images:


http://www.cohassetgc.org/club/scripts/custom/custom.asp?NS=PG&PAGECFG=FLASHGOLF

I feel particular affection for the web site's description of hole #13, being a classic Donald Ross 3.5 par 4 that follows a 3.5 par 3.
« Last Edit: January 16, 2016, 10:18:26 AM by Ronald Montesano »
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