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Essex sits at the heart of one of Massachusetts' most storied landscapes — a tidal marsh town on the edge of Cape Ann, where the coastline fractures into estuaries, granite outcroppings, and salt air that rolls in off Ipswich Bay. It's clam shack country, fishing village country, the kind of place where the land feels genuinely old. A golf course here is going to reflect that character whether it tries to or not.
At par 68, Cape Ann Golf Course plays as a shorter, more intimate layout — the kind of track where shot-making and local knowledge matter more than raw distance. Courses built into this terrain tend to work around what the land insists on: tight corridors, uneven lies, views that occasionally remind you where you are. It's not a grind; it's a round you can finish in a reasonable afternoon and want to revisit.
The North Shore of Massachusetts has a rich, unpretentious golf culture — public and semi-private tracks woven into communities that have been playing the game for generations. Cape Ann fits that tradition: accessible, rooted in place, and likely more interesting on the ground than any stat line suggests.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE/BLUE · men | 5,844 | 68.4 | 124 | 68 |
| WOMEN'S WHITE/BLUE · women | 5,844 | 74.1 | 129 | 68 |
| SENIOR · men | 4,588 | 63.2 | 109 | 68 |
| RED · women | 4,424 | 65.4 | 111 | 68 |
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