Alburg Golf Links

Lake Champlain defines this corner of Vermont in ways that go well beyond scenery. South Alburg sits on a narrow peninsula jutting into the lake, flanked by water on multiple sides, and the Alburg Golf Links makes full use of that geography. Wind off the lake is a constant factor here — the kind that shifts direction between the front and back nine and turns a manageable round into something that demands real shot-making and course management.

The "Links" in the name isn't purely decorative. The terrain in this part of the Champlain Islands tends toward open, relatively flat ground rather than the wooded, hilly character of inland Vermont, giving the course a more exposed, links-adjacent feel that's genuinely uncommon in New England. You're playing golf on a landmass surrounded by one of the largest lakes in North America, and the course leans into that rather than hiding from it.

This is straightforward, unpretentious Vermont golf — the kind of place where the view across the water to the Adirondacks on one horizon and the Green Mountains on the other earns its own scorecard column.