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Tarandowah
Springfield, Ontario
- Address15125 Putnam Rd, Springfield, ON N0L 2J0, Canada
Situated half an hour’s drive southeast of London, the course at Tarandowah Golfers Club was Martin Hawtree’s first Canadian design, opening for play in 2006. Indeed, it remains only one of four North American courses to bear the Hawtree architectural stamp as Fred Hawtree laid out a couple of courses in the US in the late 1970s and Martin is credited with the 1990 design of Reems Creek in North Carolina.
Built on 163 acres of an old family farm, this public pay and play course was designed as a faux links, with firm and fast bent grass fairways leading to undulating greens that are protected in many instances by small pot bunkers. Even though there are only two par fives on the card at holes 9 and 14, Tarandowah still measures a meaty 7,067 yards from the back markers, thanks mainly to the 400-yard+ length on nine of its twelve par four holes.
The toughest of these long two shotters is the 468-yard 11th, “Donn,” which plays directly into the prevailing wind. Tee shots need to negotiate nests of bunkers on either side of the fairway landing area before an approach shot to the two-tiered, offset green can then be executed. The smart play here might just be to lay up short to the left of the target then attempt a chip and a putt for par.
Situated half an hour’s drive southeast of London, the course at Tarandowah Golfers Club was Martin Hawtree’s first Canadian design, opening for play in 2006. Indeed, it remains only one of four North American courses to bear the Hawtree architectural stamp as Fred Hawtree laid out a couple of courses in the US in the late 1970s and Martin is credited with the 1990 design of Reems Creek in North Carolina.
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Martin Grant Hawtree joined the family firm in 1973 and took over the practice in 1984. To date, Hawtree is the longest continuous practice of golf course architecture on record.
