Fishers Island Club in New York pin flag Seth Raynor 1925 Top 100 open ryder pga

Description

The
Fishers Island Club
is a
country club
located near the eastern end of
Fishers Island
in
New York
. The club includes an eighteen-hole golf course designed by Seth Raynor that was ranked ninth in the 2009
Golf Digest
list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.
[2]
The golf course has been called the "
Cypress Point
of the East" and is also referred to by its members as "The Big Club" to distinguish it from the Hay Harbor Club, another country club on the western part of the island with a nine-hole golf course.
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[4]
The course opened in July 1926, a few months after the death of its architect, Seth Raynor. Most of the holes have water views of
Block Island Sound
or Fishers Island Sound.
[5]
Like his mentor
Charles B. Macdonald
, Raynor patterned many of the holes after classic designs at other courses including the Alps, Biarritz, Cape, Double Plateau, Eden, Punchbowl,
Redan
and Short.