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Taconic Golf Club is owned by Williams College and is currently rated the #1 collegiate course in the nation by Golfweek Magazine. It also claims the 30th 28th spot in the best public courses in the United States according to Golf Magazine. Taconic is located at the southern edge of campus at 19 Meacham Street, next to [[Weston Field]]. It is less than a 5 minute walk from [[Spring Street]] or the [[Odd Quad]], and it is not uncommon to see students carrying golf bags across campus down to the course.
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Taconic is renowned as one of the most beautiful places in the world to play golf in the fall, as tees and greens throughout the course provide stunning vistas of the Berkshire Mountains. The long views on the course combine with the wonderful small-town atmosphere of the club itself, highlighted by a faded sign on the pro shop reading "No Preferred Lies, We Play Golf Here." Golfers at Taconic pride themselves on quick pace of play, and the compact routing allows singles and twosomes to often play 18 holes in closer to 2 hours than 4. Though the course is hilly, almost all golfers walk and carry their bag, so seeing 90 year-old members walk is not an uncommon sight.
Other unique oddities of Taconic include a mirror behind the 10th tee to see the blind fairway, a birdhouse labeled "Suggestion Box" smack in the middle of the pond on the 4th hole, and the Latin phrase "medio tutissimus ibis" written on the scorecard, translating to "safer safest from the middle."
== The Course ==
=== 1 ===
[[Image:Taconic1.jpg|right|thumbnail|Jeff Lin drives off of the 1st tee.]]
'''Par 5, 475 yards.''' The first tee is only yards from the door of the pro shop and outdoor patio, providing an intimate setting to begin the round. A wide fairway greets the player, only narrowing to a 20-yard wide neck at a shallow gully 275 yards off the tee. The In the Fall of his sophomore year, this generous fairway did not help Williams golfer Will Sirignano in 2003 when '06 as he blocked his tee a ball to the right, over the trees right of the fairway, over the adjacent 18th fairway, over the out-of-bounds fence, and onto the football field –- . He then proceeded to salvage a mere 75 yards offline! miraculous par. The green tilts left to right and the bunker 30 yards short of the green left is a poor place to leave second shots.
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