LONG ISLAND NATIONAL GOLF CLUB

The windswept potato fields of eastern Long Island provide an unexpectedly rugged canvas for this Robert Trent Jones Jr. design, where rolling fairways carved from former farmland demand strategic thinking over brute force. Links-style bunkers bite into approach shots on holes like the par-4 7th, while the prevailing ocean breeze transforms club selection into an exercise in meteorological calculus. For public golf on the East End, this layout delivers the kind of shot values and conditioning that justify the drive past the Hamptons traffic.