Baker Hill Golf Club

Overview: Baker Hill Golf Club is set on roughly 260 acres of former farmland and woodland in Newbury, with broad views toward Lake Sunapee and Mount Kearsarge. Rees Jones used the property’s rolling ground, granite outcrops and elevation changes to create a mountain course that has both visual scale and strategic definition. The fairways move through open and wooded sections, while bunkering and the natural rock formations help establish the preferred lines into the greens. It is a modern New Hampshire course whose identity comes from the underlying land.

History: The club selected Rees Jones because of his experience creating substantial championship layouts. Construction was staged: the first nine-hole phase was ready in 2001, followed by the full 18-hole course in June 2002. That sequence explains why some older references give Baker Hill a 2001 date while the current 18-hole routing belongs to 2002. The project was built as a private course on a large rural tract, and Jones’s design kept the natural topography central rather than treating it as background scenery.

Did You Know? Baker Hill’s views are part of the course’s navigation as well as its scenery. Lake Sunapee and Mount Kearsarge appear from the elevated property, while granite outcrops repeatedly signal the hard geological character of the site. The course’s opening history also makes it a useful example of a modern project that reached its final identity in stages, moving from an initial nine to the complete 18-hole layout.