Golf in Gales Ferry

Gales Ferry is a New London County community in the Ledyard and Groton border area along the Thames River, part of the submarine base communities of southeastern Connecticut whose identity has been shaped by the Naval Submarine Base and the defense industries that support it. Goose Run Golf Course provides the Gales Ferry community with accessible nine-hole golf in the Thames River valley, serving a population that includes military personnel from the submarine base, defense industry workers, and the year-round residential community of the lower Thames corridor. The presence of the Yale University crew boathouse and Gales Ferry's traditions as a rowing center have added an athletic-institutional dimension to the community's identity alongside the naval and commercial maritime heritage of the lower Thames River corridor.