Golf in Monroe

Monroe is a Fairfield County town in the western Connecticut hills between Bridgeport and Newtown that has maintained a primarily rural residential character despite its proximity to Fairfield County's more developed suburban communities. Whitney Farms Golf Course provides Monroe's golf community with 18 holes of daily-fee golf on former farmland, serving a community whose practical, family-oriented character contrasts with the more affluent communities to the south and west. Monroe's dairy farm heritage persists in the agricultural open spaces that zoning has preserved at the edges of the residential development, giving the community a visual connection to the farming tradition that preceded the suburban growth of the late twentieth century.