The exception is the 18th, a magnificent two-shot test that crashes wildly into a distant valley before climbing straight uphill into a crowned target falling cruelly at the front and rear. On the back nine the ridges are generally less irregular and the contours slightly smaller than on the front side. Again the advantage for an accurate drive is enormous as the putting surface falls sharply on both sides and approaching from a sidehill lie in the rough is fraught with danger. The short, rising 7th and mid-length 8th are also terrific but the remaining front nine highlight is unquestionably the par four 9th, which tiptoes precariously along a narrowing ridge. Here strong and straight drives are pushed toward the steeply banked green site while those leaking to the right are kicked into a sunken valley leaving an approach shot that is both longer and blind across another large mound. As are the two short par fours that follow and the stunning one-shot 4th, with its green resting atop a small bunkerless knoll.Įven more memorable is the 420-yard journey along the par four 6th, this adventurous hole heading across the brow of one hill toward a seaside target carved into the top of another. The view from atop this green out over much of the outward half is quite spectacular.
There are few level lies anywhere on the property and even fewer commonplace golf holes, starting with a par four opener that rises across twisted ridges toward a green built into a distant hill. Fowler, who had previously revised England’s oldest links at Westward Ho!, arranged his holes in a large figure eight on either side of a central clubhouse, the opening nine stretching east toward the ocean and the back nine looping west along the shores of the bay.įowler’s course was completed in 1924 and is a true minimalist masterpiece, with the heaving ground undulations left untouched and the layout uncluttered by excessive bunkering or unnecessarily extravagant putting shapes. The club was established in 1922 by a group of Bostonians who hired Herbert Fowler to build them a traditional links-style layout they could enjoy during their summer vacations. Originally founded as the Chatham Country Club, Eastward Ho! is a unique Golden Age golf course situated on a narrow and bumpy Cape Cod peninsula known as Nickerson’s Neck, which eats into the waters of Pleasant Bay. ‘I am quite certain that this course will compare favorably with the leading courses in the United Kingdom and will be second to none of them.’ Herbert Fowler
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