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

The royal and ancient game of golf could have no more appropriate setting than Carnegie Abbey's historic charm and incomparable natural beauty.

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Front Nine: 6th Hole

Hessians' Hole
411 Yards - Par 4
Probably the most demanding par four of the nine, the 6th is a slight dogleg to the left, playing downhill from the tee and then gently uphill for the second. The tee shot, through a narrow shoot into a wide landing area, is rather forbidding but is actually easier than it looks. The ideal line is to hug the trees up the left to leave an unobstructed approach. The drive leaked to the right will find itself blocked out by the single cedar tree in the approach.

The green is on two levels, with the higher area on the left tucked away behind a shoulder running into the green. The approach again allows balls to be chased up onto the green, so the player stymied by the cedar can attempt to improvise.

The cemetery alongside the tee on the 6th belonged to the family of Humphrey Chase, whose homestead occupied this site in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The old foundation alongside the graveyard belonged to a later tenant farmhouse, which was still standing during World War II. The granite railroad arch adjacent to the Golf House was installed in 1860 so that Mr Chase could get his cows to the shoreline fields without hampering the new trains.

Those in a strong frame of mind and with a few minutes to spare should stop at the cemetery to read the epitaph for Humphrey Chase's grandmother on the large gravestone.

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