Wyckoff Country Club
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Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Black | 69 | 6024 yards | 70.3 | 132 |
Blue | 69 | 5468 yards | 68.0 | 131 |
Red (W) | 71 | 4925 yards | 69.1 | 123 |
Red (Senior) | 69 | 4925 yards | 65.2 | 119 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Blue M: 70.3/132 | 310 | 401 | 531 | 177 | 360 | 421 | 154 | 389 | 144 | 2887 | 341 | 383 | 390 | 478 | 393 | 365 | 213 | 345 | 229 | 3137 | 6024 |
White M: 68.0/131 | 295 | 381 | 516 | 157 | 335 | 332 | 121 | 339 | 127 | 2603 | 334 | 314 | 382 | 453 | 373 | 340 | 186 | 335 | 148 | 2865 | 5468 |
Red M: 65.2/119 W: 69.1/123 | 279 | 326 | 489 | 118 | 282 | 305 | 100 | 300 | 100 | 2299 | 326 | 302 | 327 | 420 | 335 | 320 | 158 | 322 | 106 | 2616 | 4915 |
Handicap | 12 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 15 | |||
Par | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 69 |
Handicap (W) | 11 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 18 |
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Photo submitted by u314162819116 on 06/28/2023
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The fifth features a well-protected driving zone, then a green flanked by two prominent bunkers. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 04/24/2022
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A pair of geese floats on the pond situated fairly close to green nine. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 04/24/2022
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Seen from the left rough, the 12th hole offers a dramatic vista that encompasses faraway hills. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 04/24/2022
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A view of the fifteenth fairway. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 04/24/2022
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Seventeen is simply a great par-4 and strongly resembles Donald Ross’ 13th at Mount Washington (N.H). Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 04/24/2022
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Eighteen: The parking lot behind it doesn’t diminish the excellence of this closing par-3. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 04/24/2022
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Photo submitted by uHRWY3414HR on 10/03/2021
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1st, par 4, 310: An offbeat and fun opening hole with, as backdrop, Mt. Tom, lifting toward the sky. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 09/13/2021
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Down fairway three: The well-defended landing zone for your second on this 531-yard par-five. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 09/13/2021
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The view across fairway three and into the Massachusetts hills. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 09/13/2021
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Across the 6th fairway: The view extends eastward into the Connecticut River Valley, past South Hadley. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 09/13/2021
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Green eight: One of the few ‘routine’ holes here, which doglegs to this putting surface. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 09/13/2021
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Thirteenth: The afternoon shadows lengthen over this green on a perfect summer day. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 09/13/2021
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The 3rd: This fairway of this par-5 plunges dramatically downward toward the hole. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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A view across fairway three into the receding Massachusetts hills. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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The fifth green concludes a short but tough par-4 (seen from its right flank). Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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Another view of (and past) the fifth green, this one from the 3rd tee. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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No. 7 is a masterful short three-par, falling steeply downhill to a diminutive green. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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Twelve: An expansive, rolling and beautiful two-shooter. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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My lovely cart driver. Photo submitted by u314160366138 on 08/28/2020
Beautiful view
Course was in great shape and had amazing Mountain View’s. Greens were spectacular
Great course!
Loved the course! Very user friendly for novice players like myself. Greens were spectacular!, fairways in great condition. Grounds crew are commended! The only flaw I found was the cart paths, they were very bumpy and not very smooth, other than that this is a gem in the valley!
Course and greens played wet
teed off with drizzle to mist then no rain of any kind. The course and greens were in very good condition.
mov day
Course was not in top shape. greens were good tees aned fairway mediocre at best.
Good price, poor fairways
The course is kinda weird, right next to major highway , fairways in average to fair condition, greens were in nice shape. It is a funky layout with plenty of places to lose golf balls ... I got a great price ... but it was still just barely worth it...
Another Ross Jewel
At the base of the 1,200 foot tall Mt. Tom, Wyckoff is one of a score of courses populating the greater Springfield area. As you would expect given its location, the course’s character is surely defined by hills and by long, impressive vistas, especially to the east into the Connecticut River Valley, where the views stretch for many miles, far past Mount Holyoke and South Hadley. Mt. Tom is easily seen, westward, from the first green.
But you’ll want to play Wyckoff for the excellent layout here, as well: these eighteen, created by Donald Ross in 1922 and then made over by the capable Albert Zikorus in 1966, offer a highly appealing variety throughout the first-rate routing. Above all, Ross’ sparks of genius were still clear to me throughout Wyckoff’s exhilarating fairway contours, diminutive greens, and clever use of ground movement everywhere. The features of a Ross course make typical layouts often seem, well, a little tame by comparison.
On the front nine, the second gets the game fully underway. It’s a tight, tricky, uphill fox of a hole, moving up steeply on the approach to a typically small green, which is amply protected by a gaping, flanking bunkers. After this, the outward half relents only once, at the eighth, as this routine dogleg right is a relatively simple, flat, drive-and-pitch hole. In between holes two and eight are long four and five pars, a pair of tricky par-3’s, and a muscular short par-4 with a steep climb to its pitched green (back to front) fronted by big bunkers.
The backside is even better and more unrelenting. After a pair of good—but hardly routine—short four-pars, this half delivers one gem after another until you’re back to the traditional New England clubhouse. Thirteen is one of Wyckoff’s two superior par-fives, this one the shorter of the two, and full of treachery both before and behind its green. Reachable in two, it will exact, nonetheless, two thoughtful and well-struck shots for the achievement.
Hardest hole: While four or five holes may fit this category, twelve at least exemplifies the difficulty of these brutes (it’s fitting that ownership calls their course a “little monster”). Starting with a blind shot from a high tee, twelve’s fairway drops dramatically to a beautifully rolling landing zone, here favoring a bounce from the left. The approach, even tougher, plunges further downhill and must be landed on a small green pitched from its back side to its false front. The putting surface is also guarded by woods and an imposing pair of right-side traps. Twelve is a doozie.
Best Hole: A tie between 16 and 17. Sixteen is all the monster par-three you can ask for, quite long from the deep tees and sternly uphill to a strongly tiered (left to right) green sitting on a plateau. Wow! I hit past the pin about fifteen feet, and found myself having to barely tap a super-slick downhill putt. Of course I missed the birdie. The seventeenth—which is no less dramatic—doglegs sharply to the right in the landing zone. Hit down the middle past the fairway and your ball may be snagged by the imposing bunker. Seventeen’s uphill approach, where a second massive bunker awaits to catch pushed shots, will fully test your clubbing skills and short iron game. It’s also a fabulous looking golf hole.
Did I mention that both nine and eighteen cap each nine off almost perfectly with brilliantly challenging par-threes? It’s hard to see how the playability and strategic qualities, offered in abundance on this course, could disappoint even the fussiest purist. I enjoyed myself completely, even on this first play.
Conditions, however, were disappointingly average on about half of the fairways and in some of the fairway rough. Yet the biggest sore spot was how several bunkers (scattered throughout the course) were oddly left untended, and seemingly have been for some time. I couldn’t figure this out, considering that the majority of the traps were well conditioned. Still, the greens and their surrounds were faring much, much better, if not quite excellent. Given the dry summer, I’d call overall conditions or the high side of ‘average.’ The course was playable for matches, a couple of which I witnessed on the back side.
A big plus at Wyckoff is the friendliness of the staff, including the impressive and very helpful gentleman I met behind the counter and chatted with after my round. He also returned my left-behind driver cover to me. Excellent all-around service!
One question that arose for me today concerns Wyckoff’s two designers: who really holds the master-hand over this design as it exists today? This seems murky, but the course is listed by the Donald Ross Society as an ‘authentic’ Donald Ross design. It seems likely that Mr. Zikorus remodeled some of the bunkers and perhaps the routing (and the length) of several holes. But many of the requisite Ross characteristics and stylistic choices remain on most of these holes, even if only some are what the course terms “original Donald Ross.” I felt as though I were playing a Ross, not a Zikorus, golf track. Would Zikorus, who was trained in part by Ross, want to have tinkered all that much with what he knew to be great already? But that’s a question for next time, when I play here with my son, also a Donald Ross fan.
And whoever designed what, this course is a terrific layout and value. Don’t hesitate to play it.
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The 3rd: This fairway of this par-5 plunges dramatically downward toward the hole. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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A view across fairway three into the receding Massachusetts hills. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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The fifth green concludes a short but tough par-4 (seen from its right flank). Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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Another view of (and past) the fifth green, this one from the 3rd tee. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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No. 7 is a masterful short three-par, falling steeply downhill to a diminutive green. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
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Twelve: An expansive, rolling and beautiful two-shooter. Photo submitted by AptlyLinked on 10/06/2020
Golfing the hills
Good course very tight but challenging and beautiful views, long par 4’s and a very nice 19’th hole with a very large pavilion, I’ll play it again.
Great golf
Played here today and had a great time. The pro Mike is very friendly even to non members.the greens are perfect. Fairways and tee boxes have a few dead spots but expected with so little rain. Had a great meal with drinks on the nice patio also.look forward to going back.
Shooting Gallery
The course holes are very tightly knit into a small course and you need to be careful of shots from other holes. I guess all the trees on the course protect you as well as block the way to the hole. There are some holes that have overhanging trees right near the tee which just need trimming. The greens were a little fluffy, but with the aeration last week, I can understand. Overall, the fairways and rough were bare in places, sign of not much watering and the dryness of this year.
Course and greens played nice
windy but comfortable day and the course was in very good condition
fun course
thought the short yardage would make for an easy day, never judge a book from its cover...interesting layout called for ability to place the ball important, greens were just aerated so a bit dry and slow, but true to what you read...fairways in good shape, lots of bunkers around greens. Not a busy course so never felt rushed, friendly staff. Would play again.