Golf in Edgartown

Edgartown is the county seat of Dukes County and Martha's Vineyard's most intact community, where the whaling-era captain's houses and the harbor define a streetscape that has been carefully maintained. Two courses serve the Edgartown area (Edgartown Golf Club and Vineyard Golf Club), both drawing from the island's mix of year-round residents and the summer population that makes the Vineyard one of the most intensely visited islands in the Atlantic. The island's terrain (a combination of glacial moraine topography and the low, sandy outwash that extends east toward Chappaquiddick) gives golf in Edgartown a setting that is simultaneously austere and exceptionally well-located.