Golf in Chatham

Chatham is at the elbow of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, where the peninsula bends south toward Monomoy Island and the Nantucket Sound opens to the Atlantic on the southeast. Two courses serve this outer-Cape community — one focused on daily-fee play and one a private club — in a town where the ocean's proximity on two sides shapes the terrain and the wind. Chatham is one of the more affluent and deliberately maintained communities on the outer Cape, with a year-round residential culture that has resisted the commercial development visible in the mid-Cape towns. Golf here draws from the town's permanent population and the seasonal visitors who return specifically for its preserved character.