A Word To The Uninitiated:

The Royal and Ancient Chappaquiddick Links serves proudly as a reminder of golf’s origins. Its greens can best be described as “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.”

Come to the R.A.C.L. with few expectations. Bring some friends, family, drinks… maybe a dog. We hope you’ll be as rewarded as those who’ve known the course their entire lives.