A Tribute to Heather Hill Country Club

For generations of golfers throughout the Attleboro area, Heather Hill Country Club has been far more than a place to play golf. It has been part of our lives, part of our community, and an important part of the history of the Attleboro Area Golf Association.

As we prepare to say goodbye to Heather Hill, we do so with tremendous gratitude — and with a genuine sense of sadness.

For decades, these fairways welcomed AAGA competitors of every generation. Championships were won and lost here. Qualifiers were survived. Putts were made when they mattered most. There were great rounds, difficult rounds, playoffs, celebrations and plenty of stories that became better with each retelling.

But when we think about Heather Hill, the scores are not what we will remember most. We will remember arriving early in the morning with the dew still on the grass.

We will remember seeing familiar faces in the parking lot and around the clubhouse. We will remember competitors becoming friends, fathers playing alongside sons, and generations of local golfers sharing the same fairways.

We will remember a golf course that always seemed to be there for us.

Heather Hill opened its doors to the AAGA time and time again. When our association needed a place to hold an event, Heather Hill answered the call. Its relationship with the John “Buck” Renner Memorial Two-Ball became particularly meaningful, with Heather Hill and the Poholek and Finocchi family providing extraordinary support to an event that represents so much of what the AAGA is about — friendship, competition, tradition and giving back to the next generation.

To the Poholek and Finocchi family, and to the many people who worked in the pro shop, clubhouse, grounds crew and throughout Heather Hill over the years: thank you.

There is something uniquely difficult about losing a golf course. A golf course becomes familiar in a way few places do. You remember certain holes. Certain shots. Certain opponents. You remember where you were standing when something unforgettable happened. You remember the people who were beside you.

Long after the final round is played at Heather Hill, those memories will remain.

Future generations may never have the opportunity to stand on these tees or walk these fairways, but those of us who did will carry Heather Hill with us. Its place in the history of golf in our area — and in the history of the AAGA — cannot simply be erased when the final flag comes down. So this is not simply goodbye. It is thank you.

And most of all, thank you for being such an important part of the Attleboro Area Golf Association family for so many years.

From all of us at the AAGA, and from the generations of golfers fortunate enough to have played there:

Thank you, Heather Hill. You will be deeply missed, but you will never be forgotten.

The Attleboro Area Golf Association

 

 

 

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