Rhode Island Golf Club, Newport Rhode Island Private Club, Narragansett Bay Marina, Scottish style Golf Course

"A wonderful golfing experience on a challenging course with spectacular views. What a privilege it is to have this unique Scottish-style course in America!"

Brad Faxon, PGA Tour and
Carnegie Abbey Member

Back Nine

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Back Nine: 16th Hole

Coal Miner's Way
412Yards - Par 4
Wetland flanks the left of the 16th on what is an intimidating driving hole. A good drive should be aimed just to the right of fairway bunkers, as this will leave an approach shot that can be run onto the green. The drive erring to the right will have to negotiate a line of bunkers, meandering down the right of the approach and guarding the green.

The green itself is large with an upper shelf tucked behind the bunkers on the right and a shallow valley on the left dividing the front area from the back.

Before the construction of the Kaiser Aluminum Plant, this area known as Arnold's Point, was the site of the Portsmouth Coal Mines. The irrigation water for the project is drawn from the old mine shafts which extend 2100 feet below the site and under the Bay beyond. The anthracite coal was not particularly high quality and its applications were limited. Despite this, the mine had an output of 5000 tons per day at its peak and made a net profit of $300.000 per month, supplying the Taunton Copper Works, also on the Point, until 1883.

After more than a century of mining production was finally halted before World War I. The worker's cottage to the right of the hole was first built to house miners in the last phase of the mine.