Project Notes
Opened in 1998, The Championship Course at Waverly Oaks has become one of New England’s best, public or private. With its wider playing corridors and dramatic, steep-faced bunkering, its christening marked a new, more Raynor-influenced period in the career of Brian Silva. Its success also laid the groundwork for off a flurry of golf course construction — public (Crosswinds, Pinehills) and private (Old Sandwich) — in America’s Home Town.
It is the scale of this place that sets it apart. The property here features more than 100 feet of elevation change, but unlike so many New England courses, the giant swells of terrain here aren’t hunks of grante but rather massive, grass-covered dunes. “I’ve always believed that one of the great appeals of links golf is watching the ball roll,” Silva says. “Watching the ball fall to earth at the par-3 8th [at left], then kick right and feed downhill onto the massive putting surface there, sorta proves my theory. And there are a dozen spots at Waverly where the same dynamic applies.”
