Stanley Golf Course - White Blue Course

Stanley Golf Course is New Britain's municipal golf facility on Hartford Road, a 27-hole complex made up of three nines, the Red, the White and the Blue, that can be paired into three different eighteens. The original eighteen, today's Red and Blue nines, opened in 1931 to a design credited to Robert J. Ross, and the White nine was added in 1958, designed by Orrin E. Smith. This White and Blue pairing combines Smith's mostly flat, very walkable White nine, about 3,000 yards with no water hazards but several sand bunkers, with the older Blue nine and its tree-lined fairways, elevated tees and ponds. It is the combination that Golf Digest rated the sixth-best public course in Connecticut in 1996, a mark of how well the city's mid-century addition blended with the 1931 original. The facility serves a busy calendar of leagues, events and tournaments, and it recently added a covered driving range with nineteen bays powered by Toptracer technology.