The Mirbeau Inn & Spa Plymouth is located in the historic town housing Plymouth Rock at the gateway to the Cape. The 50-room French manor house combines the amenities of a world-class spa, elegant dining and the privacy and service of living on an estate. The inn and spa buildings are decorated by monet ponds gardens and warm landscaping…
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.
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.
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.
In a town more known for its famous "rock" than its green grass fairways, golf is slowing taking over the tourist scene in this New England tourist town. Striking daily-fee courses aren't the norm in the country club world of the East Coast havens like New York and Boston, but that is changing as golf booms continue to build bigger and better public places to play, like the Pinehills Golf Club.
With six par 3s and two short par 4s, Bay Pointe Club in Onset, Mass. seems to be ripe for the taking, but it rarely happens. Low scores tend to be derailed by long par 3s, rolling topography, 38 bunkers and two ponds. The operative word about playing it is fun. Thanks to the par 3s, golfers get a couple extra chances at a hole in one. It's one of the best values of golf on or near Cape Cod.
The "country club for a day" certainly has a new meaning at The Cape Club by Troon, a high-end, daily-fee golf course scheduled to open Aug. 3 on the Massachusetts Cape.
The former Ballymeade C.C. in Falmouth, Mass. will reopen this summer as The Cape Club by Troon after extensive changes to the golf course, clubhouse and more.
Few regions can compare with Cape Cod's wealth of golf courses, which number more than 40. Best of all, most of them are open to the public. One of these, however, Sandwich Hollows Golf Club, has been more like a secret haven just for locals and in-the-know vacationers. Leigh MacKay has more on this no-longer-hidden gem.
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.
With six par 3s and two short par 4s, The Bay Pointe Club in the "Upper portion" of Cape Cod seems to be ripe for the taking -- but that rarely happens. A unique mix of long and short holes might allow a birdie one moment, then steal the strokes right back.
Nearly two years in the making, The Cape Club in Falmouth, Mass. is a new public golf course built over the old Ballymeade C.C. It offers a stellar "country club for a day" experience.