Robert T Lynch Municipal Brookline Golf Course is an 18-hole municipal course in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

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holes

par

6,211

yards (tips)

124

slope (yds)

The shape of the round · Yds teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: Styles & VanCleef reported
access: municipal
address: 1281 W Roxbury Pkwy, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
phone: 617-730-2078
website: course site →
elevation: 192 ft derived
opened: 1933
on site: driving range · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

42.30974, -71.16021 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 22 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

193 traced features across 8 layers for Robert T Lynch Municipal Brookline Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,211yds

Yds tees

547yds

Longest hole

132yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-07-07

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-20

Yardagesfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-20

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Yds	M	70	6211	70.0	124	3081	3130
White	M	70	5859	68.1	116	2876	2883
Red	M	70	5552	72.2	119	2450	2476

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-20

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	70
Yds	372	341	175	321	208	521	347	401	395	338	301	132	400	426	547	387	179	420	6,211
White	361	335	148	294	182	484	325	382	365	311	290	119	365	382	520	345	160	391	5,859
Red	345	316	140	237	157	370	240	370	275	210	280	108	284	290	460	323	146	375	5,552
Handicap	12	10	18	16	14	8	4	2	6	11	13	17	5	1	7	9	15	3

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Robert T Lynch Municipal Brookline Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Robert T Lynch Municipal Brookline Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Newton Commonwealth Golf Course (2.5 mi) · William J Devine Franklin Park Golf Course (3.7 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Massachusetts	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,211 yds	186th of 348	=7,758th of 12,025	92nd of 170 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · 128th of 268 municipal courses · =4,027th of 7,004 courses you can book · =7,687th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 124	=192nd of 319	=5,603rd of 8,710	=95th of 156 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =90th of 182 municipal courses · =2,716th of 4,936 courses you can book · =5,346th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.2	=120th of 255	=3,733rd of 7,615	57th of 128 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =46th of 146 municipal courses · =1,700th of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,694th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	659 yds between tees	254th of 335	=9,564th of 11,523	121st of 165 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =184th of 249 municipal courses · =5,296th of 6,653 courses you can book · =8,732nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1933	=137th of 343	=1,941st of 9,368	=76th of 168 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =49th of 217 municipal courses · =801st of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,423rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	192 ft derived	147th of 366	=9,170th of 12,437	49th of 180 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · 206th of 280 municipal courses · =5,716th of 7,274 courses you can book · =6,589th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 3 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-30. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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