Bretwood Golf Course

Bretwood Golf Course grew out of the Barrett family's farmland along the Ashuelot River on the edge of Keene. Geoffrey Cornish designed the original 18 holes: the first nine opened in 1968 and the second nine followed in July 1969. In 1989 the facility expanded to 27 holes with a new nine designed by Hugh Barrett, who had worked alongside Cornish, and Barrett blended those holes with Cornish's original back nine to create the North Course. A fourth nine, also by Barrett, was finished in 1995 and joined to Cornish's original front nine to form the South Course, making Bretwood a 36-hole public facility. Both courses followed the river in an old-fashioned out-and-back pattern, with neither ninth hole returning to the clubhouse. The North, generally regarded as the stronger of the two, measured close to 7,000 yards and featured a 612-yard second hole, a large double green shared by the third and eleventh, short but demanding par 5s, and a par-3 green set on a rock-ringed peninsula. Bretwood hosted the New Hampshire Amateur in 2017.