Tamarack Country Club

Charles Banks designed Tamarack Country Club in 1929 on a piece of Greenwich, Connecticut Fairfield County land. Banks was one of Seth Raynor's principal associates and Macdonald-Raynor's direct architectural successor — Banks took over the Macdonald-Raynor practice after Raynor's death in 1926 and completed several routings the Macdonald-Raynor office had been working on. Tamarack represents the Banks architectural vocabulary at full maturity, with the template-hole approach that defined all the Macdonald-Raynor work — Redan, Biarritz, Eden — translated to the Fairfield County terrain.

The course plays around 6,800 yards par 70 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The Macdonald-Raynor-Banks template-hole vocabulary defends modern equipment through angle and green-complex contouring rather than length alone. The third hole is a Redan-style par-3 with the right-to-left kicker slope; the seventh is a Biarritz par-3 with a green divided by a deep swale. The green complexes carry the Macdonald-Raynor-Banks signature squared, geometrically-precise surfaces.

Tamarack Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Fairfield County and New York metro business and finance families with multi-generation ties through the club's late-1920s founding. The Macdonald-Raynor-Banks architectural pedigree is the primary institutional identity, and the hospitality model is traditional country club.

Connecticut Long Island Sound climate gives Tamarack 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.