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    Brantford Golf & Country Club

    Brantford, ON, Canada

    Overview

    Brantford is believed to be the fourth oldest golf club in North America, dating to the 1870s, though they didn’t move to their current location east of Hamilton, Ontario until around 1919. The first holes there were built by Nichol Thompson, brother of famed Canadian architect Stanley Thompson, and both Nichol and Stanley expanded and renovated the holes throughout the 1920s, as did Stanley’s associate Robbie Robinson in the 1960s. It added up to something of a hodge podge of design until the club hired Rod Whitman and Keith Cutten, the Canadian two-thirds of Whitman, Axland & Cutten (WAC), to implement a long range renovation plan that wrapped up in 2023. The property sits on two lovely parcels along the Grand River separated by a ridge, and the holes flow easily over the land. Whitman and Cutten installed new irrigation, created six new greens, rebuilt the tees and reconstructed and modified all the bunker placements while trying to imbue the design with a look and feel consistent with a course from the first decade of the 20th century. The entire budget for the design was just $5 million, an impressive feat considering the dramatic results and the fact that the irrigation system alone was $3 million.

    About

    Holes 18
    Year Opened 1879
    Designer Stanley Thompson/Nichol Thompson/Rod Whitman and Keith Cutten (2023)

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    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    6.7426
    Character
    6.6645
    Challenge
    6.4675
    Layout Variety
    6.5997
    Fun
    6.9119
    Aesthetics
    6.6557
    Conditioning
    6.3336

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