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Description

The
Yale Golf Course
, or
Yale University Golf Course
, located on a property called the
Ray Tompkins Memorial
, is a golf course in
New Haven, Connecticut
owned and operated by
Yale University
. It is a renowned example of Golden Age American golf course design, with large undulating greens, uncommonly deep bunkers and wide rolling fairways that frequently present blind drive and approach shots. The course was a late-career
Charles Blair Macdonald
and
Seth Raynor
collaboration that featured their situational use of template holes based on famous original examples in Scotland and England, including the Road and Eden holes at the
Old Course at St Andrews
, the Redan hole at
North Berwick
and the Alps hole at
Prestwick
. Yale is notable for its enormous scale. The size of some of the greens and the depth of certain bunkers was rarely equaled in that era, or even since. Yale ranked 83rd in Golf Magazine's 2020-2021 Top 100 Courses in the World
[5]
while maintaining its #1 spot in the 2019 Top 30 Golfweek’s Best Campus Courses.