Woods Hole Golf Club

About the club

Wayne Stiles, who in the 1920s worked with partner John Van Kleek on projects throughout the East, expanded Woods Hole’s original 9-hole course to 18 in 1919. It’s set over a gorgeous property on the southern tip of Cape Cod with a small aperture on the north end touching Quissett Harbor and Buzzard’s Bay where the green of the par-3 17th is set. Twelve holes play through a separate section of meadow, running through fields of fescue as the land dips and rises invoking top Massachusetts designs like The Country Club and Essex County Club. In 2023 designer Kyle Franz completed a long-range renovation plan that greatly enhanced the visuals across the course through the addition of new and newly expanded bunkers, slightly enlarged greens and new short grass runoffs. Though not long at just over 6,000 yards, the layout continues to demands accurate driving and controlled approaches into a set of small, tilted greens that spill into Franz’s gorgeous hand-crafted hazards.