Myopia Hunt Club
Myopia Hunt Club · Massachusetts, Hamilton
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Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton Massachusetts started out in life way back in 1882. Many of the original "horsey" members were bespectacled, so they decided to call the club Myopia.
In the early days, golf was played on a rudimentary nine-hole course, but in 1896 Willie Campbell became Myopia’s professional and the Scotsman helped to establish the beginnings of a new course for the club before moving back to The Country Club in Brookline the following year. Over a period of a few years, Herbert Corey Leeds (one of Myopia’s original members), implemented the plans. The club’s new 18-hole layout finally opened for play in 1898.
Leeds certainly fashioned an unusual and perhaps quirky course but it’s a layout that is full of character with no two holes the same. An unusual feature of Myopia Hunt is the random almost haphazard use of bunkers which appear in odd places and in numerous shapes and sizes. There is no other course that features such a mixture of bizarre and often cruelly penal bunkering as Myopia Hunt.
In the book Golf’s 100 Toughest Holes by Chris Millard, the par four 12th is described as “the toughest hole on the toughest course in Open history”. The author continues: “A 447-yard par four, it was originally designed as a par five.
The tee is set high on the property and offers a magnificent New England view. But even the view can’t soften the hole.
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