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Metacomet Country Club: Course Intelligence
Donald Ross designed Metacomet Country Club in 1921 on a piece of East Providence, Rhode Island Providence-area land. The course is one of Ross's earlier Rhode Island commissions — alongside Sakonnet (1899), Rhode Island Country Club (1911), and Wannamoisett (1914 also Ross) — and the modern Metacomet routing reflects continuing restoration work that has preserved the original architectural framework. The membership has resisted significant redesign through generations.
The course plays around 6,500 yards par 70 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but Ross's green complexes set on natural rises defend against modern equipment in ways the back-tee yardage doesn't account for. The fairways play firm given the Rhode Island subsoil. The mature deciduous canopy through the property has grown to championship-narrowing dimensions over the club's century-plus history.
Metacomet Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Providence and Rhode Island business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's early-1920s founding. The Ross architectural pedigree is the primary institutional identity.
Rhode Island climate gives Metacomet a playing season of April through November, with the firmest conditions in September and October. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The mature deciduous canopy and the autumn color through October are part of the routing's seasonal photographic signature.
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