Ridgewood Country Club
Danbury, CT · Founded
Ridgewood Country Club is a private golf club in Danbury, Connecticut, designed by Devereux Emmet in 1890. The club has 18 holes. The average member handicap is 20 with 17% single-digit players.
Devereux Emmet's 1890s routing at Ridgewood represents some of the earliest strategic design principles in American golf, predating the golden age architects who would later receive more attention. The course winds through Danbury's wooded hills with a subtlety that reveals itself over multiple rounds.
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About Ridgewood Country Club
Emmet understood restraint in ways that many of his contemporaries did not, creating a course where the challenge emerges from positioning rather than penal hazards. The greens are smaller and more contoured than modern renovations typically allow, rewarding approach shots hit to specific quadrants. Ridgewood has hosted the same member-guest tournament for over eighty years, and the stories told on the terrace afterward are worth the membership alone.
Key Facts
- Ridgewood Country Club is located in Danbury, Connecticut.
- Club type: private.
- Course architect: Devereux Emmet.
- Year founded: 1890.
- Number of holes: 18.
- Average member handicap: 20.
- Single-digit handicap players: 17%.
- GHIN-registered members: 43.
- Alister Index score: 63/100.
