Every generation of Brookside members has been handed something worth protecting and has had to decide what to do with it. The generation that founded the club engaged the finest architect working in America. The generations since kept his course intact through a century of changing fashion, while a great many Ross designs were quietly altered beyond recognition.
This generation restores it.
The course closes in the summer of 2027 and reopens in the spring of 2028.
In that window, architect Tyler Rae will lead the most significant course project in Brookside’s history, returning the Ross design to its original intent. It is one of the more significant Ross restorations underway anywhere in the country.
Golf historians place Donald Ross’s prime between 1915 and 1935. That is the period when he moved past the geometric hazards of his early work and began building the bold internal green contouring, diagonal bunkering and naturalistic hazards that define his greatest courses.
Ross laid out Brookside in 1920 and opened it in 1922, squarely inside that window. The heavily contoured greens and the scale of the bunkering here are not incidental. They are the signature of an architect at the height of his powers, and they place Brookside in the same lineage as Pinehurst No. 2, Seminole and Oakland Hills.
Tyler Rae is Brookside’s architect of record.
Rae trained under Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak and Keith Foster, then spent nearly a decade with Ron Prichard, whom the Donald Ross Society calls the Father of Restoration. His renovation of Lookout Mountain Club was named Golf Digest’s 2023 Renovation of the Year. His work with Ross historian Brad Klein at Wampanoag Country Club was voted the fourth best renovation that same year.
He has walked 417 of the 423 courses Ross is known to have worked on. That is not a statistic about enthusiasm. It is what allows him to place a single Ross course accurately within the architect’s entire body of work.
Rae has called Brookside one of the great Ross courses, and described it in two words: bold and memorable.
The plan was built from Ross’s original 1920 routing drawing, the 1923 as-built survey, and aerial photography from 1924 and 1934. Every decision traces back to a document.
The first phase of work includes:
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Later phases carry the plan further: tee rebuilds and repositioning across the layout, new practice putting greens tied to the first, ninth and tenth holes, and the recovery of Ross’s original dual fairway corridor between holes two and eight.
Wide fairways that ask for position rather than distance. Open approaches that invite a running shot. Bunkers that frame a decision instead of merely punishing a poor swing. Greens that reward the player who found the right angle.
The course Ross drew.
Members who join now arrive at the threshold of it. You will know the course as it stands today, follow the work as it proceeds, and play the restored Ross from the day it reopens.
A restoration of this significance happens once in a generation. Most members will see one. Many will see none. This chapter is being written now, and there is room in it.
The course closes in the summer of 2027 and reopens in the spring of 2028. A season without golf is a real sacrifice to ask of a membership, and Brookside has no intention of asking anyone to simply wait it out.
The club is finalizing an access plan that will give members generous opportunity to play elsewhere while Brookside is closed. Details will follow once those arrangements are complete.
Membership details and current fees are available from the Membership Office.
Request Information
Tell us a little about yourself and the Membership Office will follow up personally.
Every generation of Brookside members has been handed something worth protecting and has had to decide what to do with it. The generation that founded the club engaged the finest architect working in America. The generations since kept his course intact through a century of changing fashion.
This generation restores it.
The course closes in the summer of 2027 and reopens in the spring of 2028.
In that window, architect Tyler Rae will lead the most significant course project in Brookside’s history, returning the Ross design to its original intent. It is one of the more significant Ross restorations underway anywhere in the country.
Golf historians place Donald Ross’s prime between 1915 and 1935. That is the period when he moved past the geometric hazards of his early work and began building the bold internal green contouring, diagonal bunkering and naturalistic hazards that define his greatest courses.
Ross laid out Brookside in 1920 and opened it in 1922, squarely inside that window. They place Brookside in the same lineage as Pinehurst No. 2, Seminole and Oakland Hills.
Rae trained under Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak and Keith Foster, then spent nearly a decade with Ron Prichard, whom the Donald Ross Society calls the Father of Restoration. His renovation of Lookout Mountain Club was named Golf Digest’s 2023 Renovation of the Year.
He has walked 417 of the 423 courses Ross is known to have worked on. It is what allows him to place a single Ross course accurately within the architect’s entire body of work.
Rae has called Brookside one of the great Ross courses, and described it in two words: bold and memorable.
The plan was built from Ross’s original 1920 routing drawing, the 1923 as-built survey, and aerial photography from 1924 and 1934. Every decision traces back to a document.
The first phase of work includes:
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Later phases carry the plan further: tee rebuilds and repositioning across the layout, new practice putting greens, and the recovery of Ross’s original dual fairway corridor between holes two and eight.
Wide fairways that ask for position rather than distance. Open approaches that invite a running shot. Bunkers that frame a decision instead of merely punishing a poor swing. Greens that reward the player who found the right angle.
The course Ross drew.
Members who join now arrive at the threshold of it. You will know the course as it stands today, follow the work as it proceeds, and play the restored Ross from the day it reopens.
A restoration of this significance happens once in a generation. This chapter is being written now, and there is room in it.
A season without golf is a real sacrifice to ask of a membership, and Brookside has no intention of asking anyone to simply wait it out. The club is finalizing an access plan that will give members generous opportunity to play elsewhere while Brookside is closed. Details will follow once those arrangements are complete.
Membership details and current fees are available from the Membership Office.
Request Information
Tell us a little about yourself and the Membership Office will follow up personally.
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