The original golf course was completely redesigned in 1921 by two-time Open Champion Willie Park Jr., incorporating the natural elevation changes of the 110-acre plot.

Del Kinney, the former executive director of the Connecticut State Golf Association remarked, “New Haven [Country Club] is very demanding and sneaky tough, but a very fair test.

Yale University professor Theodore S. Woolsey was instrumental in the development of the nine-hole New Haven Golf Club in 1895 at what is now Albertus Magnus College.

Woolsey and other NHGC members desired a new setting as the nine-hole course became overcrowded with Yale students who began to enjoy the newly imported sport.

Notable Yale-associated members included U.S. President Howard Taft, who taught law at his alma mater, and Yale alumnus Walter Camp, the father of American football.

Due to land constraints the driving range has remained an iron-only facility for most accomplished players with a maximum allowed carry distance of approximately 190 yards.