Pontoosuc Lake Country Club, a public 18 hole golf course has been privately owned and operated by the Moxon family for three generations. Historical records that exist show a thriving golf community as early as 1920, with members such as Freeman Miller, editor of the Pittsfield Journal. The course was purchased in 1935 by Chick Moxon, a P.G.A. pro. Since that time it has been operated as a public course offering great golf at competitive prices.  The prime function of this course throughout it’s history has been the game of golf.

The course has always had a reputation for providing a challenging round of golf at a relatively low cost. The course has gone through numerous changes in layout throughout it's lifetime before reaching the current design. Some of the course layout and design changes were prompted by a visit from the famous architect A. W. Tillinghast in 1936. View the list of Tillinghast golf courses, including 'Pontoosuk'. A complete redesign was undertaken by Wayne Stiles in 1939. Stiles a member of the design firm of Stiles and Van Kleek, was a noted course architect during the great golden-age of golf course design. His course designs can be found throughout New England.  A copy of the original plan can be seen here.  Scaled down to about 15% of its original size. The design firm of Stiles and Van Kleek designed other popular courses in Berkshire County as well ( Cranwell Resort and Country Club, Taconic Country Club and Wahconah Country Club ).

The current layout differs from the Stiles design on only a few holes. Golfers, including tourists and members, who play our course, usually rave enthusiastically about the course layout and the low cost to play.

This morning I drove from Springfield to Pittsfield to visit the course of Pontoosuc Lake Country Club course at the request of P.G.A. member Charles D. Moxon. He is also superintendent of the course. Very obviously the original planning of the course was in inexpert hands. This fact Moxon freely admits. The holes are on the short side and crowded over a much too small area.

Some thirty or more acres, adjoining, may be acquired at no great cost and I strongly advised that this be done to enable them eventually to bring the course up to standard.

However I made a number of suggestions for the improvement of existing holes all of which may be effected inexpensively, in view of the fact that new greens in most instances are under contemplation.

I advised a newly contoured green with a Master Pit for the Third; a new Teeing-ground and a new Ribbon Green for the 275 yards Fourth; a new green (on a natural site) shorter and to the left of the present, which is entirely blind to a short second shot (a really atrocious hole); a new Teeing ground for the next hole (the Eighth) from the present Seventh Green; an entirely new hole for the Thirteenth, with a Teeing-ground over to the right of the present one, from which point a new fairway will open through trees to a dog-legged green on the left; A new Teeing ground to relieve the blindness of the short Fourteenth; and a new Green over on the left of the present Seventeenth. In addition I gave Moxon suggestions for the improvement of the turf.

Tomorrow I return to Harrington Park and will see you personally on Tuesday. The next few days will be devoted to the permanent closing up of my Harrington Park home and on Friday I leave for Pittsburgh, where I will stop only briefly and then follow on to Detroit.

A.W. Tillinghast September 13th 1936