Golf in Stratford

Stratford is a mid-sized Fairfield County city on the north shore of the Housatonic River estuary, where the Sikorsky Aircraft Company has been a defining employer since Igor Sikorsky conducted the first successful helicopter flights from Stratford in 1939. The city encompasses the historic Lordship neighborhood on the Long Island Sound shore, the Sikorsky Memorial Airport, and a residential fabric that reflects a century of industrial employment. Three golf facilities serve a city of considerable density—Blackhawk Country Club and Mill River Country Club providing private membership options while Short Beach Golf Course offers publicly accessible seaside golf near the Sound, serving a community whose waterfront position between Bridgeport and Milford gives it a distinct character within the Fairfield County landscape.