Myopia Hunt Club

Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts traces its roots to 1882 as a sporting club, adding golf in the mid-1890s. The course was designed and continually refined by member Herbert C. Leeds, who laid out the early holes in 1894 and tended the design for decades, famously fine-tuning bunkering and green sites to punish errant play. Myopia became one of the great proving grounds of early American championship golf, hosting the U.S. Open four times, in 1898, 1901, 1905 and 1908. Willie Anderson won two of his record four Opens there, in 1901 and 1905, while Fred Herd captured the 1898 title and Fred McLeod the 1908. The course is remembered for its demanding, strategically bunkered greens and the exacting standards Leeds imposed. It endures as a quiet, historically rich club and a cornerstone of golf's formative era in the United States.