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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Jim Sweeney on July 03, 2015, 03:51:16 PM

Title: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: Jim Sweeney on July 03, 2015, 03:51:16 PM

Heard a lot about this course and am planning on playing there Wednesday, July 8. I'll driving from Duxbury, hope to start before 10 am., and plan to play 18. If you would like to join me, please send me a message. Also, I look forward to any comments anyone might have about the course.

Title: Re: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: Greg Beaulieu on July 03, 2015, 05:11:01 PM

That's the home course of Golf World's Ron Sirak. He really loves it there.

Title: Re: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: Brad Tufts on July 03, 2015, 08:49:26 PM

I played it a few years ago, it's about 2700 yards, par 35.  Really neat place, as long as you aren't expecting something on the order of Brora.  It's a crusty links layout perched on the seacliff, pure golf of an old yankee nature only found on the Cape and Long Island.  Extra points for a pretty lighthouse on property, wildflowers, and weathered shingles.


Standout holes include the valley 2nd, a great dunetop par three in the middle, and the 9th, a short par three with two sde-by-side tiers and the lighthouse behind the green.


My family has started a yearly summer weekend to Wellfleet, and I've been itching to get back to take a few photos.

Title: Re: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: Bill_McBride on July 03, 2015, 09:52:08 PM

Cape Cod is one of the great things about living in the Northeast. 


Years ago my son (12 at the time) and I had a great morning on the nine hole course at the Chatham Bars Inn. 

Title: Re: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: Ronald Montesano on July 04, 2015, 08:16:51 AM

Here you go, Jim Boy:  http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,59999.msg1417252.html#msg1417252


You'll have a good old time.

Title: Re: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: Tim Pitner on August 27, 2015, 10:19:55 PM

Thanks, GCAers, for alerting me to this course. Highland Links is a gem, quite a throwback. Really enjoyed it. The 2nd, 5th and 9th are standouts, but there's good stuff all the way around. Loved the spongy turf and humps and bumps in the fairways. And, although it's short on the card, one has the option of hitting driver on the 4s and 5s. Great fun.

Title: Re: Highland Links, Truro, Cape Cod, MA
Post by: MCirba on August 28, 2015, 10:50:00 AM

Highland Links are a joy.   As Bill McBride mentioned, another terrific ancient little nine-hole course in the area is at Chatham.   Not quite as dramatic and primitive as Highland, but played on basic, joyously rolling terrain, as well.