MYOPIA HUNT CLUB
🇺🇸 South Hamilton, MA, USA
Designed by Herbert C. Leeds
Myopia Hunt Club is a sporting bastion of Boston’s North Shore, where polo ponies and foxhounds once reigned supreme, yielding only slightly to the exacting demands of championship golf. Hewn from rolling, glacial terrain reminiscent of inland links, the course, conceived in 1896 by Herbert Leeds, punishes waywardness with thick fescue and deceptive undulations. Its blind shots and strategically placed bunkers reward a player who studies the course’s nuances.
While the club is steeped in history, it is also rooted in the local equestrian community.
Leeds returned periodically to tweak the layout, most notably in 1911 after Myopia hosted its fourth U.S. Open. Though not a course renowned for its length, its undulating greens and the punishing rough historically presented a formidable challenge, most notably demonstrated by the low winning scores during its Open years.
Myopia's reputation extends beyond the fairways. The club remains a treasured haven for its active membership.
Reviews
Instant favorite course ever. I wake up and think about Myopia
Great course, incredibly hard.
Myopia has such old school character and charm. So rarely do you get not only a sense of place but time (or rather, timelessness) as well from a property. Horses, idyllic mossy ponds, fescue and rollicking hills, granite rocks and tube-shaped bunkers, knee-length socks. It’s scoreable to modern golfers but has some teeth. Greens are canted on slopes to the point of being illegal/unfair, but Myopians putt it out and don’t complain. Hard not to compare to its neighbor Essex County Club, which maybe has a slight edge in terms of the golf course, but Myopia the altogether more charming complete package. Lovely routing with high point views of a treelined property, “wow” holes like 2,3,12,13,16,18.
It doesn’t get much better than this. There are a million ways to design a course but you could never build a course like Myopia today and get away with it. A round at Myopia is like stepping into a time machine and being transported into the late 1800s. It’s the perfect time capsule of America’s beginning in golf. Don’t let the short yardage fool you, this course will flip you upside down by your ankles and shake out all your lunch money if you aren’t willing to fight back a bit. It will take some skill, courage or both to make an aggressive enough play towards some of the greens (the 9th is up there with the most intimidating par 3 tee shots in golf) but without conviction you can find your ball funneling into one of the dozens of pot bunkers or miles of fescue. If you can’t appreciate a round at this course steeped in golf history, I find it hard to believe that you truly love golf.
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FAQ
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Myopia Hunt at Myopia Hunt Club has a Course Vaults score of 8.9 out of 10 based on 43 explicit golfer ratings.
Myopia Hunt was designed by Herbert C. Leeds.
Myopia Hunt at Myopia Hunt Club is listed as private on Course Vaults; guest access is typically restricted.
Par at Myopia Hunt is 72.
Myopia Hunt plays 6,560 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Myopia Hunt is 135.
