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Highland Course
The Highland Course is Brae Burn Country Club’s nine-hole course in West Newton, Massachusetts. It is separate from the Club’s eighteen-hole Championship Course and opened for play on September 22, 1922.12
Open the Club record- Opened
- 1922
- Holes
- 9
- Club location
- West Newton Massachusetts
Brae Burn’s second course
The Club added the course as its membership grew to about 800. John Shanahan, its superintendent, began work in 1921 after the Club obtained more land from founding member Henry B. Day.2
Donald Ross designed the course. John Shanahan, Brae Burn’s superintendent, built it in 1922. Shanahan was also the first president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England.3
It kept the name No. 2 Course until 1994. That year, the course became Highland during upgrades that included cart paths and moving the sixth hole’s starting area to make more room for the adjacent practice range.2
Course design
Sources and record notes7 references
Sources for this history
- Club Amenities
Brae Burn Country Club
Golf: named 9-Hole Highland Course alongside 18-hole Championship Course.
Consulted 2026-11-13 - 10 Things To Know: Brae Burn Country Club
Mass Golf
Section 9, The Highland Course; sections 4 and 8 for separately scoped historical context.
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Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England
The Newsletter, November 1999, printed/PDF page 8, upper-right column. Highland is explicitly credited to Donald Ross as designer and John Shanahan as builder in 1922. Design year is not independently specified.
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Course record sources
- Club mark sourceClub Mark
- Club AmenitiesCourse record
- 10 Things To Know: Brae Burn Country ClubCourse opening
- GCSANE: The Newsletter, November 1999Donald Ross · Original design · Date unrecorded