Save Cape Cod Country club

01/06/2026

Brewster july '19. Texture and tiny

12/10/2025

The more you think about it more horrible this idea gets. It seems to me that it's nothing less than an attack on our culture, and by our I mean all of us who live in breathe and aspire to enjoy life in America. Golf has been part of the cultural landscape for about 130 years in America, it's been enjoyed by many all this time and a legacy of participation and enjoyment has been passed down for generations. It's become one of the sources of pleasure and joy in what all agree is challenging day and age The history and the interests of all people in this continuum seem to be of no concern for folks who would plunger ahead with this development. The fact that it might go ahead under legal framework created by the state and imposed on local residencts is appaling It smacks of colonization. If there's going to be government overreach at least it could be intelligent, this is stupid. To lose an irreplaceable cultural resource for a benefit that could be produced in many other places is as destructive as urban renewal was, another program motivated by good intentions. Here they'll be paving a hellscape in Hatchville

11/21/2025

Link to Audabon Society's program on environmentally sustainable golf course management

tps://www.auduboninternational.org/success-stories

11/05/2025

Played at Shennecosset in Groton Connecticut yesterday. These all courses are built along the Scottish lines of modesty and subtlety. They don't scream "i'm a golf course. ". $48 to walk a masterpiece by Donald Ross from 1898. The course in Hatchville is from the same tradition. Deborah Emmett, the designer, traveled in Great Britain and made sketches of characteristic golf holes for his mentor, Charles Macdonald. Designer of the Newport country club and other eminent courses. As years march, on the treasues from the past become more valuable.

11/02/2025

9th hole CCCC.

10/28/2025

If you look at the list of clubs which hosted the Massachusetts Open you can see where the golf course in Hatchville fits in the scheme of things. Right at the top of the list.

The Massachusetts Open is the Massachusetts state open golf tournament. The brothers Donald Ross and Alex Ross had much success early in the tournament's history, winning the first eight events between them. In the mid-1910s, the Massachusetts Golf Association opened the event to golfers outside the...

10/28/2025

Little bit of history here. that's Ed "Porky " Oliver, winner of the 1956 Massachusetts Open at the Cape Cod country club, then, the Coonamesset Club. John Hynes, the mayor of Boston, is beside him in the golf cart. The picture is from an outing at the Marshfield country club. In 1956 the PGA championship took place at the Blue Hills CC. Ed Oliver was a top touring pro and must've been in the area to compete in the PGA.

10/21/2025

That's the guardian Eagle perched to the left of the first Green at the Cape Cod country club in July

10/21/2025

July at the ninth hole on the Cape Cod country club

10/21/2025

Sunday i played at the Cape Cod Country Club, an accessible and affordable public course since 1928, with 24 family members for an outing. They all came from Massachusetts some from the Cape and were struck by how unusually beautiful the golf course is Regular golfers. And they could see the architectural merit to the design. It's the natural style that characterized the golden age: this is why many people thought it was a Donald Ross course. You stand on a Ross course like Shennecosset and what you feel is the natural environment: the elements of golf course design are placed exactly where they need to be, like notes in a Mozart composition. Quite a contrast to the McMansion style of places like the Cape club; obtrusive features and attitude. The irony is that it cost two or three times as much to play there as at the elegant CCCC right down the road. And talk about animals? Sunday we were a little bit frightened by a huge flock of turkeys on the 15th hole, eerie like Halloween. Before that we saw two equestrians clopping down the road next to the volcano hole; young women from the horse farm down the street, very friendly. On the 13th, a large bird, that had to be an osprey, but could've been a bald eagle or maybe a pterodactyl wafted into the trees and disappeared. As an environmentalist, I have great concern over the future of our climate, as it is warmed by the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But I would suggest this, you don't destroy the environment in order to save it.