Fishers Island Club

The Fishers Island Club sits on a windswept island in Long Island Sound that, despite its Connecticut mailing associations, belongs to New York's Suffolk County. Formed by the Ferguson family in 1925 and modeled loosely on Florida's Mountain Lake, the club engaged Seth Raynor to route eighteen holes across the island's rugged farmland while Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. planned the surrounding development. Raynor died in January 1926, months before the course opened that July; his associate Charles Banks completed construction. The result is widely regarded as Raynor's finest work, a seaside canvas for his signature template holes such as the Redan, Biarritz and Punchbowl, draped over dramatic coastal terrain with sweeping water views. Consistently ranked among America's very best courses, Fishers Island endures as a purist's pilgrimage, admired for its bold green complexes, firm turf and the way Raynor's geometry meets an untamed shoreline.