Est. 1953 · Geoffrey Cornish and Robert Trent Jones Sr. (Pines); re-routed 2021 by Coore & Crenshaw
Why we love this place
Once home to the longest course in America, the Pines has been reborn through a bold Coore and Crenshaw re-routing. We love that kind of fearless reinvention, honoring the past while building something fresh. Add Greater Boston's only 36-hole private setting, and it's a place that keeps surprising you.
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About The International Golf Club
The International sits on a rolling, heavily wooded 665-acre property in Bolton, Massachusetts, where golf dates back to a nine-hole course around 1901. Its famed Pines Course was originally designed in 1953 by Geoffrey Cornish, assisted by amateur legend Francis Ouimet, then dramatically lengthened by Robert Trent Jones Sr. At roughly 8,325 yards, the Pines became known as the longest course in the United States, a brute defined by huge green complexes and penal bunkering. After a 2020 bankruptcy tied to the pandemic, Escalante Golf purchased the club, and Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw completely re-routed the Pines in a 2021 restoration, trimming about 1,200 yards and reimagining the layout across new corridors. Paired with the Tom Fazio-designed Oaks Course, The International remains Greater Boston's only 36-hole private club.
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