"George Wright" -- A Model for Municipal Golf

[@arthurcharest9061]

Boston Muni Golf is great. Franklin Park is a vibe and the perfect place to bring friends who haven’t played regularly. George Wright is where you go once you’re feeling ready for that fun challenge. Good stuff, guys!

[@willjohnson3385]

10:10 a full fledged Icaritoooo!

[@chenardalan172]

Conditions are incredible, great video!

[@chrisb.8287]

Love seeing Will from NLT out there - hoping he can do a fraction of this to the DC muni’s (sooner rather than later!)

[@iandmcneill]

Great video - thanks NLU. As someone who grew up in Carnoustie and took amazing, accessible golf for granted it is great to see this happening elsewhere. Didn't think USA had many if any of these type of courses around. Looks like a spectacular place to play every day.

[@flugelwood]

Awesome to see my home course displayed this way! Thanks guys!

[@deanadams3893]

Live right down the street and play here all the time. Currently on a golf trip in Ireland and this makes me want to fly home and play GW. That’s some pretty dang good content.

[@paulfmurphy617]

nice tribute to a great old school layout that I have loved for over 30 years even in it's darkest days.

[@jameshagan2832]

George wright is an amazing course

[@PMMeiners]

What a beautiful strategic course. Again the way NLA produces these videos is just amazing 🤩 Well done guys and well done Boston. You have a gem in your city.

[@brianklonoski8165]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Just picked up golf again after 12 years. George Wright was my home course when I last played. Even back then, it was an incredible track that oozed soul. Exposed granite, big elevation changes, serpentine fairways, tricky greens, whispy rough - it's the Country Club Lite. Unlike The CC, not only could I play at George Wright, but as a resident of Boston, a yearly membership was like $700 - plenty affordable for a young professional living in the city. I spent a lot of evenings there chasing perfection in the twighlight.

[@nclancer9570]

Very nicely done and thank you for the beautiful visuals.

[@devinclark2481]

Heading to Boston the week before Labor Day. Will definitely be getting an afternoon tee time. Thanks for telling the stories in golf that matter, fellas!!

[@christopherseymour5210]

Nothing better than New England golf.

[@russbortnem2508]

Thanks for the tour guys! Added to my list. Great job D.J.

[@commane21]

Played the Wright in high school and college, and as I got better, it got better. Sometimes that doesn't happen. As you increase your skill, some courses become boring and less challenging. Not GW. It's got so much movement left and right, up and down, with beautiful mature trees and granite outcroppings. It's never boring and never a pushover, even for the low cap guys. Tip of the hat to Ross, to the folks who have given their time and skill to bring it back to what it deserves, and to you for sharing its story and singing its praises.

[@bigbear7672]

That course looks so fun… another cracking production. Always get the emotions hoong

[@aq7705]

Great story. Thanks for sharing. As the guy said, "Let's make golf for everyone"...that should be an NLU series.

[@Broadkaast1]

Isn't that Strapped 😅

[@aq7705]

@@Broadkaast1 LOL

[@davidmayeranderson1291]

Amazing to know that this gorgeous course, and clubhouse, were built through FDR's Works Progress Administration.

[@pandersonnike]

I played there in June a couple days after the U.S. Open. I loved the course, and the fact it's a municipal is amazing. I enjoyed playing my first true Donald Ross course, and saw my dad and I get punished with his elevated greens and bunkers. Overall a cool course, and loved the history.

[@brianflaherty8579]

Great stuff. I always forget about this course and only seem to remember Franklin Park (because of the zoo across the street!). The clubhouse looks amazing and I love New Deal architecture, have to visit for sure.

[@robquinn9]

Stunning and unbelievably cool

[@kerrysullivan5231]

Loved the perspective of all the female golfers you included!

[@marker_sd]

Great stuff as always gents!

[@bengibson4598]

GW is a gem. Hole 17 is one of my favorite par 3's. If the granite & puddingstone could be exposed a bit more it would make it one of the more stunning par 3s in the state. Also as a walker I really appreciate the steps up to 14 and the raised path on 17. (let's restore these...often overlooked). Good content fellas.

[@davidsefton4794]

Great to see, yet at the same time it hurts that my home municipal course in Hoylake, England has been closed since April. This film shows what can be done with a municipal course. It just takes foresight, cooperation and enthusiasm enthusiasm. We have the good people here to make the new impact we just need a chance and the political will.

[@lesterhermine]

Such a shame other cities with lovely centrally located and historic golf courses can’t embrace them like Boston do. Here in Auckland, NZ everyone beats up on our central muni, Chamberlain Park. It’s shameful to see calls for it to be destroyed when these gems can be part of rejuvenating cities as well as people’s lives. Well done George Wright and Boston. 👍👏

[@Jammer914]

Tron with hair in those pictures is wild. Been watching these guys for years, but you just never think oh what did this guy look like when he had hair on his head. Wild

[@theglimmertwin-mq9zd]

TC swinging righty but putting lefty? One word: Refreshing

[@joeburgermeister6752]

As always, great stuff from NLU. Just got harder to get a tee time but so cool to see GW get the recognition it deserves. Now give the people what they want and get a strapped episode tee'd up at Willy J

[@troncarter2056]

It’s been hard to get a tee time at GW - can’t blame that on us moving forward! And the strapped boys at FP would be 👌👌

[@Dv-oh2wq]

Incredible content… love this NLU!

[@declanc6585]

Great content! Love these features. Would love to see NLU check out another great Ross muni near Philly. Jeffersonville GC is an amazing track. Superintendent Rich Shilling has made this course a true destination. And extremely affordable too.

[@jonathanwolff2776]

Jeffersonville is incredible. Probably the best course I played this year and it's at most $70. You can walk in the afternoon for $25-30.

[@commane21]

Yep ... Jeffersonville is definitely a solid track. I used to play George Wright a lot, and in my opinion GW is in a different category. But I could play Jeffersonville all the time. It could use some investment and TLC -- I understand they're putting some capital into the clubhouse soon.

[@DAVIDDORIANGOLF]

G.W. is on my list to play, for sure.

[@MrTrikai]

Reminds me of Wellshire in Denver. An old Donald Ross course as well. If only we could figure out a solution to updating/refurbishing the clubhouse and working with the events business that has pretty much taken over the venue.

[@richardhetzel329]

It's a great golf course!

[@MrLcumbee]

Love the Icarito Drone shot at 10:12

[@robertfarnese2921]

Last time I played GW was in the late 90’s …. I remember hitting into a white smoke haze on 9 … they were burning leaves and brush on the right side slope

[@DanDalhouse]

Great video

[@mnesmith3]

Love what they have done with the course. I hope Philly is able to turn Cobbs Creek into something similar.

[@Wetsocks1187]

This is an awesome surprise

[@kevlar8348]

I live 2 miles away, damn, wish i knew you guys were stopping by

[@Thetruth3434]

Great track!

[@anthonyloiselle2910]

First round ever at Gw was the Suffolk invitational.. no practice round solo 2nd 76. Place is incredible

[@dctuss21]

Gotta get up to Gannon in Lynn the other great WPA course in the Boston area. Wayne Stiles design (who did Taconic)

[@troncarter2056]

Gannon's fantastic.

[@chrisreddy7087]

Best golf course hot dogs too

[@jessewright4773]

10:11 Big left miss. Siiiiick.

[@dctuss21]

Amazing

[@thomasbailey4139]

Anybody have golf shorts recs?

[@1981SPL]

what kind of bag does Tron have @ 6:59 ?

[@greyman419]

Shoutout to the Electricians and Plumbers

[@Hoylake007]

So good

[@johnshannon3892]

Wicked Pissah…Job well done

[@AJredroc]

18:11 Cody how could you do that to your boy T?! 😂

[@TP-fs3uz]

low key highlight of the episode tbh

[@andrewmckenna4269]

Herbie!!!!!!

[@Bb23199]

Playing here next month, so excited. Ross Muni vs Ross Muni, I’m sure it will shit all over Rackham in terms of condition - Detroit resident

[@nitenitesucka]

If you have time, sandy burr is another local ross course you can play on the weekend for $60, not as good but damn close.

[@Bb23199]

@@nitenitesucka won’t have time this trip but I’ll be back in the spring. I’ll throw it on my list!

[@troncarter2056]

@@nitenitesucka Sandy Burr was essentially my home course when I was up there. So good.

[@Thetruth3434]

@@Bb23199 red tail is sick too!

[@UofLFan1224]

Yeah, we need to see the strapped guys play here immediately. Edit: On second thought, ain't nothing strapped about those play rates.

[@joe5615]

Fire

[@paulpanamarenko]

If by “the south”, you mean Florida, I got no comment, but some of the folks I know in Texas are the salt of the earth. Meet ‘em, and a half hour later, you’re hugging them on the way out the door.

[@DoobyScoops]

So, you played The Country Club before the Open. Then hung around and played George Wright after? Nostalgia aside, what's your preference?

[@YOTBOFFICIAL]

How many putters did TC bring?

[@j.w.matney8390]

I play a Donald Ross Muni and if the City would put some money in the course, it would be great ! Still, it's home and I'll never join a private club.

[@dsmmsd00]

George Wright donated the land for the golf course to the city.

[@jeffwilliams1706]

Will Smith is the long lost brother of Mandy Patinkin

[@ericmanthei3295]

Very walking city - immediately jumps into car and drives off. HA!!

[@dwboston1]

You can't walk to George Wright from the Back Bay, at least not quickly and with golf clubs - it's in Hyde Park almost 8 miles away.

[@zimandtherocket]

Dirty sensor gang.

[@patrickmcloughlin8979]

for the price they charge its not your "typical muni"

[@shawnray4492]

$57 is about 1/2 of what you’ll pay for any other course in MA

[@davisthedrummer]

Absolutely true. It’s a great course, but kinda seems like a slap in the face to the surrounding community with their rates. Would be nice to see a price drop. I’m sure they could swing it at this point. Boston golf is very expensive, but so is everything else here…I miss South Carolina.

[@patrickmcloughlin8979]

@@davisthedrummer Boston born. Live out in SF now - the rates out here are even worse

[@davisthedrummer]

@@patrickmcloughlin8979 I would imagine. It’s crazy and unfortunate. Hard to grow the game when most people can’t afford it ):

[@stevehamblin3519]

On what planet is $41 for city residents expensive? What's a slap in the face is $125+ to pay mediocre "high-end" public golf courses in the area like Pinehills, Red Tail, Granite Links, etc. What an outrageous take