Golf in Essex

Essex is a small Essex County town on the Cape Ann peninsula, in the tidal marshes and upland woods at the base of Cape Ann where the Essex River's salt marshes extend inland. Cape Ann Golf Course serves this community in terrain where the Essex marshes — some of the most extensive on the North Shore — and the wooded upland alternate across the town's landscape. Essex is known for its antique dealers and its clam shacks as much as for its golf, and the course serves a year-round community drawing from both the local population and the broader Cape Ann market. One course suits the modest scale of a town defined more by its tidal landscape than by residential density.