Golf in Lynn

Lynn is an Essex County city directly north of Boston on the North Shore, a working-class urban community with a dense residential character shaped by the shoe manufacturing industry that defined the city for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gannon Municipal Golf Course serves this city as one of the few accessible golf venues within a densely urban inner-suburb setting, in terrain that occupies one of Lynn's limited open parcels above the city's commercial and residential grid. Municipal golf in Lynn serves a large, diverse urban population in a city where the industrial harbor and the dense residential fabric leave limited space for open recreation.