CBHighlands

It's always a challenge to play a course for the first time, but Breakfast Hill was both fairly straightforward and fairly interesting (the back nine maybe more so than the front). We especially enjoyed the benefit of being paired with a member who willingly offered us very helpful playing tips...

The course isn't long, but it pays to be accurate off the tee. The fairways are a bit tight but the woods are forgiving - tree lines are staked more as lateral hazards than out of bounds. The holes are close together, which makes for an easy walk, but you don't feel like they are on top of each other. "Fore" is not a word I would expect to hear often here.

The course was in great condition with very receptive greens that were quick without being too fast and true if you played less break - a tip from our playing partner...

All in all, the course was good fun! I'm certain we'll play it again.

Full disclosure. This is my home course. It is the course where I learned to play golf as a junior. It is the course I have played more than any other on the planet. It is the course to which I compare all other courses...which is why, if you can, you must play here at least once in your lifetime. Preferably twice.

It's 18 holes of exquisite design and wondrous scenery. No hole is like another. You will never have the impression that you've played "this" hole before. Each is a self-contained playground of golfing bliss, the sometimes-diabolical lies (you might catch a flat one on #11) making you work for a good score.

Walk it if you can but carts now make it possible for many, including my now 100-year-old grandfather, to keep on playing it. And to quote him, he who has played the course every year since it first opened in 1939, "I could never skip a hole. I love them all too much." You will, too.