What They’re Saying
“I can’t leave Waverly Oaks without mentioning its bunkers. They look and feel like grand old Donald Ross things. This is absolutely some of the best bunkering done on any new course in the past decade. An ‘enthusiastic’ 8.3 out of 10, 10 being Absolutely Perfect.”
— Ron Whitten, Golf Digest
“Before a recent trip back to the Bay State I asked the Tree House which new layout in the Plymouth area they would recommend. The almost unanimous decision was Waverly Oaks. Plymouth has become a hotbed of golf in Mass. With Pinehill, Atlantic and the new ultra private Old Sandwich. This Brian Silva course did not disappoint, with many challenging features reminiscent of those formerly reserved for private courses.”
— Golf Club Atlas
“Silva pays homage to the designers of golf’s Golden Age of architecture at all of his courses—and he does here too, including on the 14th and 15th holes, “Raynor” and “Punch Bowl.” But it’s his own playful imagination that makes Waverly Oaks so memorable and such fun to play.”
— LINKS Magazine
“Today, expensive public tracks are a booming business that has wrought a change in design philosophy. Architects must build courses that can compete aesthetically with Augusta and Pebble Beach without frustrating affluent duffers. Designer Brian Silva sprinkled Waverly Oaks in Plymouth, Mass., with hazards that give the illusion of a treacherous passage. Yet the course has four sets of forward tees, and fairways wide enough to give the worst hacker a chance. ‘We might drop a bunker in the middle of the fairway,’ says Silva, ‘but we’ll leave a fairway-width landing area on either side of the bunker. There are a couple of ways to get to the green, rather than one royal road.’ “
— Sports Illustrated
