Chiba, Japan

Great Horse

Project Notes

Newly rebranded, GreatHorse is a full-service private club with up-tempo amenities and styling. (The club retains the Hampden CC name, though it commonly is known as GreatHorse.) Its 232-acre site, 11 miles east of Springfield, looks out across a vast expanse of the Connecticut River Valley. Seven holes occupy high ground; another 11 sit down on virtually flat floodplain. Top to bottom, the place clocks in at an impressive 225 feet of elevation change.

What They’re Saying

“What started as a bunker-renovation plan for a typically lifeless Al Zikorus design called Hampden Country Club steadily morphed into a total remake of nearly every feature and blade of grass within the existing routing corridor. The result, part of a $50 million reinvention of the entire club, is a stunning reversal of fortune… Silva’s unlikely achievement has been to make the lower and upper holes mesh and flow without making it feel as if there were two separate courses. The key is offset diagonal bunkering, interesting greens, lots of short-grass rollout around them and opened ground through tree management that eliminated the previous isolation of each hole and created a single composition.”
— Brad Klein, Golfweek

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