Golf in Cambridge

Cambridge is a dense Middlesex County city on the Charles River, home to Harvard and MIT and one of the most academically concentrated communities in the country. Fresh Pond Golf Course occupies a parcel adjacent to Fresh Pond Reservoir in a city where open land is extraordinarily limited and protected. Golf in Cambridge serves an unusual demographic — a large, educated urban population in a city that doesn't naturally skew toward the sport — and Fresh Pond provides public access in one of the country's most expensive and compact urban golf settings. The reservoir's protected buffer gives the course more open context than the surrounding city streets imply, a genuine contrast in a city where every open parcel is under sustained pressure.