The Kittansett Club

The Kittansett Club was founded in 1922 in Marion, Massachusetts, on a sandy point reaching into Buzzards Bay. Its name, drawn from a local Wampanoag term meaning "near the sea," suits a course routed hard against the water at the end of Butler Point. William Flynn provided the routing while Fred Hood built the layout and refined it over the following two decades, and the two are often credited jointly for the design. Firm, breezy and framed by salt marsh and shoreline, Kittansett is celebrated for its exposure to the elements and its famous par-3 third, whose green sits on a small island of turf ringed by a vast expanse of sand. The club's stature was affirmed in 1953, when it hosted the 14th Walker Cup and the United States defeated Great Britain and Ireland 9-3. It remains a fixture on national top-100 lists and a revered Flynn design.