Country Club of Fairfield - Connecticut, U.S.A.

The Country Club of Fairfield was founded by Oliver G. Jennings in 1914, after he decided that Brooklawn Country Club was becoming too crowded for his liking. Jennings acquired a parcel of land for his new course along Long Island Sound consisting of onion fields, salt meadow, and wetlands surrounding the tidal marsh adjacent to Southport Harbor. Jennings also had the good sense to hire Seth Raynor to design the course, with construction beginning in 1916 and not completed for five years. Raynor had to overcome the swampy nature of the site while preserving its alluvial beauty, obtaining landfill from the bottom of Southport Harbor and transporting topsoil from Long Island by barge. The course is speckled with wetlands and ponds, and the sixth plays across the inlet of Southport Harbor known as the Lagoon.

Wintonbury Hills Golf Course - Connecticut, U.S.A.

In 1995, the residents of Bloomfield, a suburb close to Hartford, decided to build a first-rate municipal course. One of the town residents happened to be Brad Klein, a well-known writer and authority on golf architecture. Klein persuaded Pete Dye and his associate Tim Liddy to design the course for a fee of $1, which Dye never actually kept since the bill is framed in the clubhouse. Wintonbury Hills Golf Course finally opened in September 2003 on an uncluttered, 290-acre site of gently rolling farmland hemmed in by wetlands to the west. The 14th hole is a tough par four running along the reservoir that opens out to the east. On several holes, there are long views out to the hills and the century-old Heublein Tower in the distance.