Our History

According to Harper's Official Golf Guide of 1900, Fenwick Golf Course was 2,550 yards long, with $10 annual dues and 85 members. F.E. Cooley held the amateur course record of 42. J.B. Moore, the course designer, was president, M.B. Brainard was secretary, and John Graveson was green-keeper.


In 1900, Fenwick gained national attention when 1898 U.S. Amateur champion Findlay Douglas competed in the first Fenwick Open. Afterward, the club focused on local play and never hosted a major tournament again.


The course then had larger, squarer greens and less uniform grass. Connecticut Magazine noted unique hazards like sand-filled country roads and bunkers. While conditions have improved, Fenwick’s defining features—small greens, wide corridors, berms, and firm fairways—remain.

Staff

Jeffery Champion: General Manager

Matthew LaChance: Director of Golf 

Daryl Aresco: Superintendent

What They're Saying

“Fenwick’s Old World appeal is obvious. It’s flat, easily walkable…and possesses an undeniably linksy feel, with coastal breezes a reliable companion.”


Links Magazine, 2024

"Fenwick is the best course you’ve never heard of. It is a quintessential hidden gem in plain sight. Fenwick’s tale of the tape looks easy on the scorecard as a 2,904-yard par-34 course, but tiny greens and capricious seaside winds make surgical iron play necessary.”


GOLF Magazine, 2021

“The conditioning of the course is exactly as a public course should be…The fairways are firm, excellent golfing turf and the greens roll fast enough for downhillers to be a challenge, and no faster. It’s an easy walk. It’s a good walk."


McKellar Magazine 2018

“It is certainly an ideal spot for (a) links for it has water on three sides and a fine breeze is constantly blowing about.”


Connecticut Magazine, 1900

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