The Hardest Round of Your Life
Of all of the rounds you’ve played in your golf lifetime, there are but a few that seem to be etched in your memory in permanent ink. There’s the story of your career-low round, that your friends and family could recite back to you word-for-word. Then there are probably one or two courses you checked […]
Classic Course: Brae Burn Country Club
If champions determine the quality of a golf course, then Brae Burn Country Club on the outskirts of Boston is firmly among America’s elite. When the record offers up names like Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Francis Ouimet, Harriot Curtis, and Beth Daniel, the place is something special. Like many of the courses that emerged in […]
High & Mighty: Exploring New England’s Majestic Mountain Courses
We have three things to thank for New England’s bevy of mountain beauties: geomorphic forces dating back millions of years, a burgeoning ski industry desperate to fill summer hotel rooms, and the invention of the golf cart. We’ll skip the geology lesson, fascinating as it is. Suffice it to say that the Laurentide Ice Sheet […]
A Golf Vacation in Cape Cod
When the Army Corps of Engineers gouged 20 million cubic yards of rock and earth from the Massachusetts towns of Bourne and Sandwich in the early 1930s, the great canal they cut became an accepted boundary between Cape Cod and the rest of the world. But lately I have stood on tee boxes at new […]
Highland Links, Cape Cod
At the northern tip of Cape Cod a 200-year-old lighthouse watches over America’s first true links
Wequassett Resort and Golf Club
Precious few properties have achieved the level of excellence of this stylish, Cape Cod hideaway
Orchards Golf Club
The great golf secret of the Berkshires was the achievement of Donald Ross at the Orchards, followed by the unspoken tale of the course’s decline. A round of applause, then, for its stirring comeback
The Kittansett Club
A placid exterior belies the difficulties of this coastal New England layout
The Ranch Golf Club
Charm and challenge cross paths on a new daily-fee that has swiftly added an obscure border town to the golf map of New England
The Golf Club at Sacconnesset
Boasting a Rees Jones-designed course in a natural setting, a relative newcomer is establishing new standards for a pure golf experience on Cape Cod, drawing members from New England, the nation and the world
