Golf Canandaigua Style: Part 1

Bristol Harbour Golf Club

Perched high above the spectacular Canandaigua Lake, Bristol Harbor Resort is home to a wonderful Robert Trent Jones - Reese Jones layout replete with stunning lake and mountain vistas. The 5500 - 6700 yard resort course is playable for all levels of golfer with plenty of teeth to challenge the low cappers. Opened in 1972, the course is a wonderful tale of two distinctively different nines. In the shadows of the beautiful resort complex, and nearby vineyards, the front nine is a series of lengthy, windswept holes played over a rolling plateau. The rolling fairways are pinched by strategic bunkering and exposed, heavily sloped green sites. The back nine is a completely different golf experience fromt he front side featuring challenging elevation changes, tight tree-lined fairways and perplexing green sites. From the opening back side hole, a par 5 which falls dramatically from tee to green, this side is a daunting series of holes testing you througout.

 

Course Stats:

Par 70/72
Yardage
Rating/Slope-M
Rating/Slope-F
Gold -Par 70
6662
73.0 / 136
-
Blue
6175
71.4 / 134
-
Green
5764
69.1 / 128
74.9 / 135
Red
5482
-
73.5 / 132
Purple
4299
-
-

 

Access: Public


Location:

Canandaigua, NY. -on the western shores of Lake Canandaigua

 

Editor's Shot Maker's Picks
Hole 6
Hole 7
Hole 14
Hole 15
Par
Par 4
Par 5
Par 4
Par 3
Gold -Par 70
441
506
410
194
Blue
465
482
392
160
Green
427
457
367
146
Red
420
440
349
119
Purple
283
350
217
119
HCP-Men
6
2
1
7
HCP-Women
1
3
8
14

 

Feature Holes Descriptions:

Hole Six is a severe downhill Par 4/5 that presents a devilish green, tucked behind a large pond swallowing anything hit short. The climb back up the Par 5 seventh seems endless and forces mighty strikes to navigate the combination of challenge broughton by OB left, pinched trees lined the fairways and well bunkered elevated green. Playing through a tight valley Holes 14 -17 are reminiscent of a mountain golf course. Number 14 is a snap hook dogleg left that feels like your second shot is falling off the edge of the earth with a 125 foot drop the last 130 yards to the green. Par 3 15 plays from an elevated tee ranging from 143 to 212 yards to a finely tucked side hill green leaving no room for error. No bunkers are need here for the gorp short and hazard fall-off left negate the need for any more defence on this hole.

 

Contact:

Bristol Harbour Resort
5410 Seneca Point Rd.
Canandaigua, NY 14424
Phone: 1-800-288-8248

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Golf Canadaigua Style Part 2: Ravenwood

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