CONNECTICUT MUST PLAYS
A Golf Trip Through Connecticut By, JOHN TORSIELLO
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hanks to Golfing Magazine’s “Free Golf ” program you get a complimentary round of golf on a number of courses in Connecticut when you sign up. Call 860-563-1633, or visit www.FreeGolf.net to get aboard. There is still a lot of time left to enjoy the courses on our list. Here are the layouts, some private that you can play for a cart or a small service fee by partnering with us. PRIVATE COURSES The Golf Club at River Oaks (www. ClubRiverOaks.com) is located on the Sherman/New Milford town line in western Connecticut. The courses has a number of holes on its back nine that hug the Housatonic River, which is visible through the trees in late autumn or early spring. The look from the tee box on the par-four dogleg left ninth hole reminds one of playing golf in northern New England rather than Connecticut. Many consider this to be one of the top two or three courses in the state. Robert McNeil designed the course that opened in 2003, and he built into it challenge
The Club at River Oaks and fairness. Farmington Woods Country Club (www.FarmingtonWoods.com) in Avon was designed by American designer Desmond Muirhead, who also crafted the famed Jack
Shennecossett Golf Course
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Nicklaus Muirfield Village course in Ohio. The layout is unique to the Farmington River Valley area in that there are dramatic elevation changes in what is usually a rather flat section of Connecticut. The course features woods
