Few golf courses in New England can claim roots as deep as Laconia Country Club, one of New Hampshire's older private layouts. The club has long served as the social and sporting center for the Lakes Region, a part of the state defined by its glacier-carved lakes, birch and pine forests, and the kind of unhurried rhythm that draws people back summer after summer. Playing here feels grounded in that tradition — a members' club with genuine history rather than manufactured charm.
The Lakes Region itself sets a vivid backdrop. Laconia sits at the heart of a cluster of lakes — Winnipesaukee the most famous among them — and the surrounding terrain is rolling and wooded, giving golf courses here a natural sense of enclosure and intimacy. Summers are bright and relatively short, which tends to make every round feel a little more earned.
As a private club at par 72, Laconia Country Club offers the full strategic range a serious golfer expects, built into a landscape that does much of the design work on its own.
