Bass River Golf Course

Bass River Golf Course sits in South Yarmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Established in 1900, it holds the distinction of being the first town-owned golf course on Cape Cod. Donald Ross redesigned the original layout and expanded it to 18 holes in 1914, making it part of the documented trail of Ross's early New England work. The course plays to par 72 at 6,138 yards and is open to the public at budget-friendly green fees. Ross's characteristic turtle-back greens are present throughout, and the course features wide fairways typical of his early municipal commissions. The par-3 9th, playing 169 yards over marshland, is the course's noted signature hole. Bass River serves as a connector stop on the Donald Ross New England Trail, which links courses across Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, including a cluster of Ross designs on Cape Cod.