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Sherman sits in the far northwestern corner of Connecticut, where Fairfield County gives way to genuinely rural hill country — a landscape of glacial lakes, stone walls, and dense hardwood forest that feels a world removed from the commuter towns closer to the coast. It's quiet territory for golf, which means courses up here tend to earn their reputations through word of mouth rather than marquee marketing.
The Club at River Oaks occupies this setting as a private membership experience, the kind of place where the course itself does the talking. An 18-hole par 72 in this terrain almost certainly means elevation change, tree-lined corridors, and the sort of routing that rewards local knowledge — understanding which slopes feed toward trouble and which opening looks wider than it plays.
Northwestern Connecticut's golf culture leans understated and serious. Members here are likely more interested in a well-conditioned, thoughtfully designed track than in resort amenities, and the surrounding landscape — particularly in fall, when the hardwoods turn — provides a backdrop that no scorecard statistic could begin to capture.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,740 | 73.8 | 138 | 72 |
| Blue · men | 6,299 | 71.8 | 136 | 72 |
| White · men | 5,931 | 69.9 | 132 | 72 |
| Gold · men | 5,643 | 68.5 | 127 | 72 |
| Gold · women | 5,643 | 73.3 | 132 | 72 |
| Red · women | 5,172 | 70.8 | 127 | 72 |
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