Name: Colin Christman.
Age: 33.
Home: Collinsville, CT.
Home Course: Tumble Brook CC, Bloomfield, CT.
Bio: Growing up in Falmouth, MA, my first rounds were played at Cape Cod Country Club, the renamed but otherwise reasonably well-preserved Devereux Emmet design. With its sandy soil, minimal rough, bold green contours, and strategic design, I found its challenges and rewards in sharp contrast to the other area public courses that I could play in the 1990s. Growing up, I was a pretty skilled soccer player, and ended up playing through college. I graduated from Yale in 2011, and it was during my time there that I realized the common thread between Cape Cod Country Club and the Course at Yale. For all the significant differences between the two courses, there were commonalities that stood in contrast to many of the municipal and daily fee courses with which I otherwise had experience. I've always enjoyed the novelty and playing challenge of a new course, and over time I found this place and others to enrich my understanding of what a golf course is and how different minds and eras have participated in that evolution.
I remain unmarried and without children. I'm a therapist. I play left-handed. Perhaps as a consequence of early exposure to excellent greens, I consider putting one of my strengths and my absolute favorite part of golf. This season will be my first at Tumble Brook, a course that combines Willie Park, Orrin Smith, and George Fazio holes into a 27-hole layout. While I don't consider it an architectural revelation, I think it is one of those courses that represents a fundamentally sound presentation of good and thoughtful golf.