When you're looking for both golf and romance, you're not talking the $295 package offering four rounds of golf, a basic motel room and a sleeve of balls. Here's a better idea: head to Cape Cod. On the cape, golf and romance are definitely not an oxymoron. And with 43 golf courses in a relatively small area, you can stay in one place and play a different course each day.
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Hickory Ridge Country Club in Amherst, Mass., is one of those courses that lets you feel pretty good about yourself and your game. Despite the potential pitfalls along the fairways and the deep bunkers guarding most of the multi-tiered greens, this Geoffrey Cornish-designed track that lets you string together some pars - maybe even birdies. Ask any member, though, and they'll warn you not to go counting up the score too early, writes Kiel Christianson.
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For the uninitiated, a great place to start exploring The Cape is the town of sea captains, Brewster. From here - on the "elbow" of The Cape - both ends of the peninsula are readily reachable for day-trips. Best of all for duffers, three of The Cape's best courses and one of only two golf resorts, Ocean Edge Resort and Golf Club. If you've never thought of The Cape as a golf destination, you might want to give it a second look.
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Two Top 100 golf courses are found on Nantucket Island: Nantucket Golf Club and Sankaty Head. Both boast ocean views and a classic, linksy feel. And both are very private. But now, thanks to Massachusetts course architect Howard Maurer and the Nantucket Island Land Bank, daily-fee golfers also have a place to swing their clubs: Miacomet Golf Course.
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Golf began its life in the New World in New England and New York. Ever wonder why so many major tournaments are held in the Northeast? It's the classic architects at courses like Shinnecock Hills (Macdonald and Raynor), Winged Foot (Tillinghast), Bethpage Black (Tillinghast), The Country Club at Brookline (Willie Campbell, William Flynn), and The Orchards (Donald Ross; site of the 2004 U.S. Women's Open).
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Cape Cod has enough golf to satisfy anyone, from those who want to pretend they're Kennedy to cranberry picking to those just trying to stretch their legs from the notoriously bad traffic. With apologies to David Letterman, here's the Top Ten reasons to golf in Cape Cod.
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In a slew of cheap unmemorable courses outside Boston, one notable exception is Butter Brook in Westford. With Beantown so close, the course is an easy drive for residents or visitors to Boston, and those coming into town will find Westford a classic suburban community that's grown tremendously over the past quarter-century, but still retains it's small-town character.
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