Sakonnet Golf Club

Sakonnet Golf Club sits on Sakonnet Point in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a low, windswept headland framed by dry-laid stone walls and long coastal views. The club is private; play and events are by invitation from members. Today the 18-hole course plays par 70 at roughly 6,300 yards from the back tees, with multiple forward options; published ratings list a back-tee course rating around 71.3 and slope 126. Practice accommodations include a short-game area and range, with day-to-day details stewarded by a small greenkeeping team in keeping with the club’s quiet profile. The opening stretch occupies the most exposed ground near the water, then turns inland over subtly rumpled pastureland to finish on higher terrain. The present character emphasizes angles in the breeze, firm-running approaches into perched targets, and recovery from pronounced fall-offs around the greens—an experience that is more about wind management, trajectory, and landing-spot control than raw length. Recent decades have seen historically minded refinement under Gil Hanse’s master-planning oversight, carried out in phases to recover original width, re-expose green edges and fall-offs, and—in select cases—build holes shown on Ross’s original drawings but never previously constructed.