Golf At Yale-Words Don't Do It Justice

  Once in a while, one can, through deep research and unbound curiosity, develop a deep and profound fascination with a place. This place, for me, is The Course at Yale. Located in suburban NewHaven, The Course at Yale is a rousing Macdonald-Raynor collaboration that was created in 1924. Some say it contains the finest and most majestic versions of the storied "template holes",that the aforementioned architects proliferated so eloquently across the world. We arrived on a picturesque early fall afternoon, the sky clearer than a marble, with the NewEngland foliage ever-so-gently adapting to a fiery orange. We checked in, got to the first tee, and instantaneously felt the gravity and scale of the course.The marvelous forced carry over a large lake sets the tonefor a round unlike any other before. The approach to the first green is guarded by a bunker in the front.