Boston offers all of the attractions you would expect from a major city from world-class shopping and dining, to concert venues and sports arenas, but this coastal capital also has plenty of colonial New England charm. Walk the Freedom Trail, which will take you from the Boston Common to the U.S.S. Constitution, and you'll get a sense of the city's revolutionary spirit and history.
The solution for those golfers who cannot spend four or more hours on the course is to find worthy, shorter tracks. The South Shore of Boston offers four superior alternatives that are but minutes off the direct road from the city to Cape Cod: Weathervane Golf Club, Rockland Golf Course, Little Harbor and North Hill C.C. Leigh MacKay has more.
Like The Country Club at Brookline, there's plenty of history at the Robert T. Lynch Municipal Golf Course at Putterham. But as a pure golf experience, Robert T. Lynch holds its own. The holes have all kinds of interesting angles and greens complexes, plus there's been an effort of late to restore the course, undoubtedly better than it's ever been.
Squirrel Run Golf & Country Club in Plymouth, Mass. may be short at just 2,859 yards -- which is what you get when you have 15 par 3s out of 18 holes. But it's long enough and interesting enough to get most golfers excited. The course is enjoyable for everyone, especially high handicappers and beginners, Mike Bailey writes.
Foxborough Country Club, located just minutes from Gillette Stadium, is a challenging Geoffrey Cornish-designed golf course favored by Patriot and non-Patriot fans alike.
There are two golf courses on the property of Putterham in Brookline, both of them historic. Only one of them, though, is open to the public, the municipal Robert T. Lynch Municipal Course at Putterham. The course, which dates back to 1931, actually borders the famous Country Club at Brookline. It plays around 6,400 yards from the tips, but with elevated greens, doglegs and a variety of holes, it challenges players of every level.
Opened in 2002, Newport National Golf Club has certainly set the standard when it comes to daily-fee golf in Rhode Island -- or New England, for that matter.
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