The Exmoor course presents golfers with a classical golf experience, one that exemplifies the Golden Age of golf architecture — 1910-1937 — a period when many of America’s most influential courses were built. The layout features design antecedents to the great courses of Scotland: imaginative grass-faced bunkers, challenging green complexes and 18 holes shaped in natural ways by the land on which they were built.
Donald J. Ross, considered the “Dean” of American golf course architects, designed the Exmoor golf course in 1915. Golf architect Ron Prichard completed a course restoration in 2003, and working recently with Mr. Prichard, Exmoor resurfaced its greens with Pure Distinction bent grass, redefined green pads and added new grass approaches to all greens.
Today, the Exmoor course offers strategic challenges that test every aspect of a player’s game, with broad fairways that pinch to doglegs, some greens with open run-ups, others with false fronts, and all greens with contours offering multiple options for pin placements. Solidly struck shots to the hearts of the greens are rewarded, but shots to the edges of greens may run off to collection areas, where golfers are faced with one of the game’s timeless dilemmas: to chip or putt.
