Tekoa Country Club

Tekoa Country Club occupies a terrace above the Westfield River at the foothills of the Berkshires on Westfield’s west side. The club operates as a public/semi-private facility centered on an 18-hole course that blends a core of surviving Donald Ross holes with a 1961 expansion and redesign by Geoffrey Cornish; a later bunker/yardage project in 2006 tied the two eras together visually. The current card lists four primary tees topping out around 6,438 yards at par 71, with a straightforward practice range, putting green, and a clubhouse that doubles as one of western Massachusetts’s larger banquet venues; ownership since 2009 has continued to invest in both course and clubhouse. Day-to-day presentation is parkland: modest elevation change, one or two water features associated with interior streams/ponding, and a cadence that alternates short, angle-critical par fours with longer two-shotters across flattish shelves. The character varies noticeably as you move through the property: on the Ross corridors (today signed as holes 2, 3, 4, 14, 15) the greens are perched and the fairway bunkering pinches preferred lines, while on the Cornish holes there is generally more width and more staged yardage, especially on the back-nine stretch leading home. Guests encounter a flexible, playable layout with enough historical texture to reward repeat rounds.