Quashnet Valley Country Club

Quashnet Valley Country Club in Mashpee, Massachusetts is a Geoffrey Cornish and William Mitchell design from 1976 that occupies one of the more environmentally distinctive parcels on Cape Cod, 330 acres of active cranberry bogs and wetlands bordering the Quashnet River. The 6,601-yard par-72 championship layout features ponds, streams, wetlands, and the river itself in play on 15 of the 18 holes, giving the course a unique character among Cape Cod's public tracks. The routing meanders rather than marches, fairways twist through the bogs with deliberate choices about where to challenge the water and where to give golfers a breather. A course rating of 72.0 and a slope of 134 keeps it honest from the back tees. The clubhouse overlooks the first and ninth fairways with a restaurant and lounge that anchor group outings. For visiting Cape Cod golfers, Quashnet Valley is the environmental-storytelling round, a course inseparable from the bog-and-river landscape it's built into.