Raceway Golf Club

Raceway Golf Club grew out of the Hoenig family's dairy farm in Thompson, land the family shares with Thompson Speedway, whose original oval and stone clubhouse date to the early 1940s. In the mid-1940s John Hoenig and his son Donald J. Hoenig, a PGA professional, designed and built a golf course on the farm, and the original nine holes opened in 1947. The second nine followed in the early 1960s, creating the routing that is still played today, though greens, tees, bunkers and fairways have been renovated over the years and irrigation has been added. The 16th green is the last surviving original from the 1940s, built in the old New England push-up style, and the family's 1700s farmhouse still stands beside it. The par-72 course rolls over hills lined with old-growth trees and historic stone walls on a parcel next to the track. Now in its fourth generation, the family business has since added other New England courses under its Tri State Golf banner.