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Yale golf course provided some comfort

In the fall, the Yale golf course becomes a majestic setting for the Connecticut foliage. The colors of fall -- yellow, bronze, orange, red, purple and brown -- blanket this 85-year-old masterpiece designed by Charles Blair MacDonald with help from Seth Raynor and Charles Banks. The ninth, a 235-yard par 3, is the signature hole in the layout because of its 65-yard long green with an 8-foot swale separating the front and back. The tee shot from a raised hillside requires a 190-yard carry over water into a 12,000-square-foot green that is flanked by two strip bunkers. Trees place the hole into a striking artistic frame -- giving order to its natural beauty.

The designers got the idea for the hole from a similar one in France that was built by Willie Dunn, the architect of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island, N.Y. MacDonald had discovered the hole at the Le Phare Course at the Biarritz Golf Club in France on a trip to Europe looking for ideas for his National Golf Links. From there, he and his team took bits and pieces of concepts from the third hole at the Le Phare Course and built their own Biarritz hole at Yale. There probably is not a more beautiful and challenging par 3 in the United States -- especially as the bright fall colors fully blossom in New England in early October.

It was an autumn day in September, and nature hadn't blessed Connecticut yet with her full array of colored leaves. My favorite time at the Yale golf course was still a few weeks away. I wasn't supposed to be in New Haven or at the Yale golf course. I never played there before October, but I was back there on a Tuesday when the promise of the fall foliage was replaced with the gloom and despair of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

On that fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I had arrived in my office at the Golf Digest Companies in Trumbull, Conn., from Grand Central Terminal in New York at about 8:45 a.m. ET, just as the first hijacked plane slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. At that moment, like many people around the world, I didn't understand what I had just seen. Could it have been an airplane that had simply lost its way and crashed into a building? But then the world knew that the United States was under attack when, shortly after 9 a.m., a second plane hit the south tower. After a third plane hit the Pentagon, we were told to go home. But the Metro-North train back to the city was shut down. I don't remember now how I got there, but I made my way to New Haven, where my great aunt had moved in the early 1950s to work in a once-thriving manufacturing industry in southern New England.

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