HINGHAM, MA

Black Rock

Project Notes

This site, the old Meggetts Quarry, was surely a challenging one: more than 200 acres of everything that is rock — granite, quartz, crushing plant, pits — and very little of anything that amounted to available shaping material or topsoil, to say nothing of inherent golf characteristics. On a few rash occasions, Brian Silva told the owners that a golf course could not be built on the site. Happily, they declined to heed his advice.

Opened in 2002, Black Rock has only improved with age, a happy/full membership having created healthy, colorful fescue program that now lends heathland qualities to holes like the fine 1st and and 10th, and the very old world, uphill par-4 5th. But the rock aesthetic still predominates here, paired with pitch-perfect hard, angular edges reminiscent of masters old (Raynor) and new (Dye).

What They’re Saying

In 2002, shortly after opening, LINKS magazine named Black Rock Country Club to its Top 10 New Courses in its annual “Best of Golf” issue.

“Though the scale of the bunker dominates the eye [at the par-3 12th, see image bottom left), the area of real interest should be the tightly mown short grass on the left to right slope along the left of the green. The ‘real’ – certainly the fun – shot is to hit a low ball toward that slope and watch the ball feed onto the green.”
— Ran Morrissett, Golf Club Atlas

“No hole is a good one unless it has one or more hazards in a direct line of a hole. Max Behr, who is one of the best American golf architects, states that the direct line to the hole is the line of instinct, and that to make a good golf hole you must break up that line in order to create the line of charm.”
— Alister Mackenzie

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Hand crafted to maximize the natural golf characteristics of a site and create the proper natural settings for golf In order to meet – or exceed – my clients’ expectations.

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