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366 golf courses in Massachusetts, 5,651 holes between them, 271 with published USGA tee ratings.

366
courses
5,651
holes
271
rated
7,243
longest (yds)
152
steepest slope

Every Massachusetts course

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Every figure here is a published one, gathered from the course and public records — nothing on this page is estimated.

Massachusetts standouts

Toughest testpublished fact
Tpc Boston

slope 152 · from 319 courses

The highest USGA slope rating published for any of the men’s tee sets. Slope measures difficulty for a bogey golfer relative to a scratch golfer — a rated figure, not an opinion. Men’s ratings only: a tee is rated separately for men and for women and the two scales do not compare, so mixing them would rank part of the field on one scale and the rest on another (see peakSlope in course-metrics.ts).

Longestpublished fact
Pinehills Golf Club Nicklaus Course

7,243 yds · from 348 courses

The longest published tee set, in yards from the tips.

Massachusetts by the numbers

Massachusetts courses ranked on the figures they publish themselves. Each list counts only the courses that publish that figure, so the totals differ. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.

Longest

— the top 25 of 348 courses with a published scorecard
# Course Longest
1 Pinehills Golf Club Nicklaus Course 7,243 yds
2 Tpc Boston 7,216 yds
3 Pinehills Golf Club Jones Course 7,175 yds
4 The Ranch Golf Club 7,174 yds
5 Bayberry Hills Golf Course 7,172 yds
6 Vineyard Golf Club 7,146 yds
7 The Club at New Seabury Ocean Course 7,131 yds
8 Waverly Oaks Golf Club 7,114 yds
9 Crosswinds Golf Club Ouimet Zaharias 7,108 yds
10 International Golf Club Pines Course 7,082 yds
11 Crosswinds Golf Club Jones Ouimet 7,077 yds
12 Nantucket Golf Club 7,074 yds
12 Westover Golf Club 7,074 yds
14 The Golf Club at Sacconnesset 7,047 yds
15 Turner Hill Golf Racquet Club 7,036 yds
16 Stow North at Stow Acres Country Club 7,035 yds
17 Main at Country Club The 7,033 yds
18 Renaissance Golf Club 7,031 yds
19 Crumpin Fox Club 7,023 yds
19 Ipswich Country Club 7,023 yds
21 Boston Golf Club 7,020 yds
22 Crosswinds Golf Club Zaharias Jones 7,017 yds
23 Ocean Edge Resort Club on Cape Cod 7,011 yds
24 The Bay Club at Mattapoisett 7,008 yds
25 Red Tail Golf Club 7,006 yds

The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.

Toughest test

— the top 25 of 319 courses with a USGA slope rating for its men’s tees
# Course Toughest test
1 Tpc Boston slope 152
2 Eastward Ho Club slope 149
3 Crumpin Fox Club slope 147
4 Shaker Hills Country Club slope 145
5 Widows Walk Golf Course slope 144
6 Renaissance Golf Club slope 142
6 Shining Rock Golf Club slope 142
6 Vineyard Golf Club slope 142
9 Boston Golf Club slope 141
9 The Golf Club at Sacconnesset slope 141
11 Charter Oak Country Club slope 140
11 Crosswinds Golf Club Zaharias Jones slope 140
11 Granite Links Golf Club at Quarry Hills Granite Nine slope 140
11 Granite Links Golf Club at Quarry Hills Milton Nine slope 140
11 Ipswich Country Club slope 140
11 The Kittansett Club slope 140
17 Blackstone National Golf Club slope 139
17 Crosswinds Golf Club Ouimet Zaharias slope 139
17 Main at Country Club The slope 139
17 Nantucket Golf Club slope 139
17 Nashawtuc Country Club slope 139
17 Old Sandwich Golf Club slope 139
17 Pleasant Valley Country Club slope 139
17 The Cape Club slope 139
17 The Ranch Golf Club slope 139

The highest USGA slope rating published for any of the men’s tee sets. Slope rates difficulty for a bogey golfer relative to a scratch golfer — a rated figure issued by the golf association, not an opinion about the course. Men’s ratings only, because a tee is rated separately for men and for women and the two scales do not compare; a course rated only for women is not in the running rather than converted.

Hardest from the tips

— the top 25 of 255 courses with a USGA course rating for its men’s tees
# Course Hardest from the tips
1 Tpc Boston rating 77.0
2 The Club at New Seabury Ocean Course rating 75.7
2 The Golf Club at Sacconnesset rating 75.7
4 Pinehills Golf Club Jones Course rating 75.4
5 Ipswich Country Club rating 75.2
5 Pinehills Golf Club Nicklaus Course rating 75.2
7 Crumpin Fox Club rating 75.1
7 Turner Hill Golf Racquet Club rating 75.1
7 Vineyard Golf Club rating 75.1
10 Boston Golf Club rating 75.0
10 Nantucket Golf Club rating 75.0
10 Renaissance Golf Club rating 75.0
10 The Ranch Golf Club rating 75.0
14 Crosswinds Golf Club Ouimet Zaharias rating 74.8
15 Far Corner Golf Hawk Fox Course rating 74.7
16 Bayberry Hills Golf Course rating 74.6
16 Blackstone National Golf Club rating 74.6
18 Wellesley Country Club rating 74.5
19 Championship at Cyprian Keyes Golf Club rating 74.4
20 Dennis Pines Golf Course rating 74.3
20 Main at Country Club The rating 74.3
20 Nashawtuc Country Club rating 74.3
20 Pleasant Valley Country Club rating 74.3
20 The Cape Club rating 74.3
25 Black Rock Country Club rating 74.2

The highest USGA course rating published for any of the men’s tee sets — the score a scratch golfer is expected to shoot. Men’s ratings only, for the same reason as slope: the men’s and women’s ratings of one tee are different measurements. It measures difficulty and nothing else; it is not a quality score and never orders these pages by how good a course is.

Widest tee spread

— the top 25 of 335 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
# Course Widest tee spread
1 Nashawtuc Country Club 4,697 yds between tees
2 Hazelton Golf Club 3,595 yds between tees
3 King Rail Reserve Golf Course 2,835 yds between tees
4 Country Club of Pittsfield 2,552 yds between tees
5 Crestwood Country Club 2,551 yds between tees
6 Braintree Municipal Golf Course 2,538 yds between tees
7 Wahconah Country Club 2,494 yds between tees
8 Eastward Ho Club 2,401 yds between tees
9 Sagamore Spring Golf Club 2,314 yds between tees
10 Highland Links Cape Cod 2,307 yds between tees
11 Walpole Country Club 2,290 yds between tees
12 Pleasant Valley Country Club 2,253 yds between tees
13 The Ranch Golf Club 2,191 yds between tees
14 Waverly Oaks Golf Club 2,184 yds between tees
15 Main at Brae Burn Country Club 2,180 yds between tees
16 Ocean Edge Resort Club on Cape Cod 2,125 yds between tees
17 Stockbridge Golf Club 2,084 yds between tees
18 Nantucket Golf Club 2,083 yds between tees
19 Edge Hill Golf Course 2,080 yds between tees
20 Cape Cod National Golf Club 2,070 yds between tees
21 Boston Golf Club 2,069 yds between tees
22 Pinehills Golf Club Nicklaus Course 2,058 yds between tees
23 Tpc Boston 2,011 yds between tees
24 Vineyard Golf Club 2,009 yds between tees
25 Larry Gannon Municipal Golf Course 2,003 yds between tees

Yards between the longest and shortest published tee sets — how far the course moves to fit a different player. Courses publishing a single tee set are not in the running, because one set is an unmeasured spread rather than a narrow one.

Oldest

— the top 25 of 343 courses with an opening year
# Course Oldest
1 Duxbury Yacht Club opened 1875
2 Main at Country Club The opened 1882
3 The Royal Ancient Chappaquiddick Links opened 1887
4 Highland Links Cape Cod opened 1892
5 Essex County Club opened 1893
5 Segregansett Country Club opened 1893
7 Cohasset Golf Club opened 1894
7 Leicester Country Club opened 1894
7 Myopia Hunt Club opened 1894
7 Siasconset Golf Course opened 1894
11 Chatham Seaside Links opened 1895
11 Cummaquid Golf Club opened 1895
11 Fall River Country Club opened 1895
11 Greenock Country Club opened 1895
11 Presidents Golf Course opened 1895
11 Stockbridge Golf Club opened 1895
17 Bass Rocks Golf Club opened 1896
17 Norfolk Golf Club opened 1896
17 Taconic Golf Club opened 1896
17 The Country Club of Greenfield opened 1896
17 William J Devine Franklin Park Golf Course opened 1896
22 Highland at Brae Burn Country Club opened 1897
22 Hyannisport Club opened 1897
22 Newton Commonwealth Golf Course opened 1897
22 Springfield Country Club opened 1897

The year the course opened, as published. Ranked oldest first. An opening year is not a design credit and not a renovation date — a course that opened in 1921 and was rebuilt in 1998 still opened in 1921.

Highest above sea level

— the top 25 of 366 courses with a coordinate we could sample
# Course Highest above sea level
1 Worthington Golf Club 1,596 ft
2 The Blandford Golf Tennis Club 1,512 ft
3 Bas Ridge Golf Course 1,499 ft
4 Donnybrook Country Club 1,401 ft
5 Ashfield Community Golf Course 1,351 ft
6 Berkshire Hills Country Club 1,254 ft
7 General Electric Athletic Club 1,230 ft
8 The Golf Club at Wyndhurst Manor Club 1,214 ft
9 Wahconah Country Club 1,199 ft
10 Gardner Municipal Golf Course 1,164 ft
11 Westminster Country Club 1,158 ft
12 North Adams Country Club 1,093 ft
13 Edge Hill Golf Course 1,034 ft
14 Kettle Brook Golf Club 1,032 ft
15 Country Club of Pittsfield 1,031 ft
16 Templewood Golf Course 1,027 ft
17 Leicester Country Club 1,026 ft
18 The Woods of Westminster 997 ft
19 Greenock Country Club 979 ft
20 Hillcrest Country Club 948 ft
21 Forest Park Country Club 931 ft
22 Waubeeka Golf Links 884 ft
23 Grandview Golf Course 865 ft
24 Quail Hollow Country Club 860 ft
25 Ellinwood Country Club 837 ft

Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.

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