Golf in Bourne

Bourne is the gateway to Cape Cod, straddling the Cape Cod Canal where Barnstable County begins and Plymouth County ends. The Brookside Club serves this upper-Cape community in the canal zone's sandy, pitch-pine terrain, in a town whose identity is shaped by the canal, the two bridges, and the constant seasonal traffic in both directions. Golf in Bourne draws from both the year-round residential population and the seasonal traffic that funnels through the town on its way to and from the Cape's lower reaches. The canal zone terrain gives Bourne's golf a gateway-Cape character distinct from the outer-Cape venues to the east.