A Word To The Uninitiated:

The Royal and Ancient Chappaquiddick Links plays like no other. Its greens can best be described as “pillowy”. (Perhaps “wooly”) Its un-irrigated fairways a measure of the season’s rainfall. Its terrain a mix of simplicity and blind shots. Hazards abound, for golfers and local residents alike.

Despite its modest presence, the course is an accumulation of a century’s quixotic labors. Generation upon generation has found and founded a unique sense of place... of community… of camaraderie and folly. As the author Vance Packard wrote in his 1990 historical update, the course “adds so much to the joy and pain of living on Chappy.”

If you come to the R.A.C.L., don’t bring any expectations. Bring some friends, family, a dog… maybe a cold drink. We hope you’ll be as rewarded as those who’ve known the course their entire lives.