Southington Country Club

Southington Country Club took shape in the summer of 1922, when a group of local golfers recruited Edwin S. Todd to chair a committee to plan a course. The club leased a 90-acre tract, the old Webster farm in the South End district, through the newly incorporated Parsons Golf Corporation, and work on a nine-hole course began at once; temporary greens were ready for a members' tournament on Labor Day 1922. A clubhouse built from stone taken from the farm's walls was completed in 1923, and by 1924 the club counted more than 200 members. Course directories date the present 18-hole layout to around 1950. Set in the Apple Valley between the Meriden and Waterbury ranges, the par-71 course pairs a hilly, open front nine with a flatter, narrower back nine, and water comes into play on ten holes. Today it operates as a public course.