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Hyannis, Cape Cod, MA Spring 2001—Avid
golfers know no respite from the urge to play—regardless
the weather. Cape Cod, one of America’s favorite Winter and spring golfers visiting
Cape Cod need not be obsessive- compulsive to fancy playing a
full 18 holes—even in January—for here winter golf
is not just for stoics. Cape Cod, blessed with a temperate climate
and temperatures at least ten degrees warmer than the mainland
(January’s mean temperature is 37° F), is ranked in
Golf Digest’s ‘top ten’ out of 309 U.S. golf destinations.
For golfers with partners who are
not, there is a surfeit of recreation, shopping, sightseeing
and dining while the other half is swinging away on Golfers can pursue their passion
all year, too, as they could play a different course every single
day for more than a month without ever crossing the bridge. No
waiting for tee times, either, in the quiet months. 
Cape Cod is accessible, too—an hour from Boston and Providence, less than three hours from Hartford/Springfield and New Haven and an exhilarating one-hour Colgan Air flight—or a four-hour drive from New York City. Boston’s Logan International Airport, the major international gateway, and T.F. Green Airport, in Providence, are about one hour’s drive from the Cape Cod Canal; both offer regularly scheduled Cape-bound flights on Cape Air. |
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destinations, is also a golfer’s dream destination. With
33 public and 13 private golf courses—the nation’s
fourth highest per capita—golfers are rarely far from a
fairway.
South Yarmouth’s Blue Rock
Golf Course was named ‘number 4 short golf course in the
country’ by Golf Digest. Another publication, Maximum Golf,
named The Captains Golf Course in Brewster as one of its ‘100
Best Bargain Courses’ in the country. Golf magazine selected
the championship course at Mashpee’s New Seabury as one
of the ‘Top 100’ courses. The New Seabury course was
also included in Travel & Leisure’s ‘Top-20 Public
Access Courses’ in New England along with Cranberry Valley
Golf Course in Harwich.
the fairway. Golfers need not feel guilty; their partners will
delight in the peninsula’s many active—and more relaxing—options.
And after a few rounds, couples can partake of Cape Cod’s
many delights together (there’s nothing like good old fashioned
solitude to soothe those cares away).
So, whether one is a golfer or
not, Cape Cod is one of America’s greatest destinations.
Acclaimed by leading golf publications as one of the nation’s
best, visitors will find that Cape Cod is a Mecca for many lifestyles
and active options. Where else can one partake of so much recreation,
take in so much beautiful scenery, shop up and down the cape,
dine with diversity and stay in a quaint B&B or centuries
old former captain’s house, a motel near the beach, a full-service
hotel with all the amenities or a posh resort? Cape Cod is truly
a year round golf and tourist destination with endless charms
and incredible diversity.
