Brickshire Golf Club

Brickshire Golf Club in Providence Forge, Virginia is a championship design by two-time U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange, in collaboration with architect Tom Clark. Opened in 2001, the course stretches 7,246 yards through the New Kent County countryside with six sets of tees and a demanding slope rating of 144 from the tips.

Brickshire Golf Club in Providence Forge, Virginia is a public-access championship course designed by Curtis Strange — the two-time U.S. Open champion and longtime PGA Tour television analyst — and opened in 1998 as part of the Brickshire residential development in New Kent County between Richmond and Williamsburg. Strange's involvement in the design brought a touring professional's perspective to a course intended to challenge serious golfers while serving the mixed public and residential market of rural New Kent County. Strange routed the course through the mature hardwood forest and gently rolling terrain of the New Kent County Piedmont, creating a layout that emphasizes strategic shot placement over brute distance.

The combination of tree-framed corridors, well-positioned bunkers, and the contoured greens typical of the late 1990s design era gives Brickshire a genuine parkland character consistent with its forested setting. The course plays to 6,600 yards over a par of 72, with Strange's understanding of what creates a memorable playing experience evident in the variety of hole lengths, directions, and demands throughout the routing. Curtis Strange's career gives his design work at Brickshire a credibility that many celebrity-architect designs cannot match — Strange won consecutive U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989, placing him among the accomplished players of his generation, and his subsequent career as a PGA Tour television analyst gave him an analytical perspective on golf course design that informed his work on the course.

The Brickshire commission was completed in the late years of Strange's active involvement in design work and reflects his understanding of the challenges that resonate with the full range of players who would eventually use the course. Brickshire Golf Club benefits from its location in the corridor between Richmond and Williamsburg, the two most significant historical and tourist destinations in Virginia, where a growing population of weekend and vacation golfers seeks quality daily-fee experiences. The residential community surrounding the course provides a stable membership base that complements the public fee revenue, sustaining the club's operations and investment capacity across the decades since opening. The club has maintained its position in the New Kent County golf market through consistent conditioning and the competitive advantage of Strange's design pedigree.

Several improvement cycles have addressed infrastructure and playing surface quality while preserving the wooded character that is Brickshire's most distinctive aesthetic asset. The course's public accessibility and the Strange association give it a place in the Richmond-Williamsburg corridor golf market that the growing New Kent County residential population continues to support.