Orrin E. Smith

Orrin E. Smith was an early-twentieth-century golf course architect whose work concentrated in the Northeast, particularly Connecticut and surrounding states. His portfolio reflects the regional club-building activity of that era, designing courses that served emerging communities from coastal Connecticut to northern New England.

Smith's documented designs include Birchwood Country Club in Westport, Connecticut, and Plandome Country Club on Long Island, both among his higher-regarded layouts. He also created courses at Torrington Country Club in Goshen, Connecticut, and Stanley Golf Club in New Britain, where he laid out multiple nines that have been combined into various eighteen-hole routings. Additional work includes Waterville Country Club in Maine, Rochester Country Club in New Hampshire, and layouts in Massachusetts and New Jersey.

His design at Tumble Brook Country Club in Bloomfield, Connecticut, was later modified by other architects. Smith's courses typically occupy rolling terrain suited to the region's natural topography, reflecting the design sensibilities of the period before widespread earthmoving became standard practice.

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