Golf in Nahant

Nahant is an Essex County peninsula community north of Lynn, a small town on a rocky spit of land that connects to the mainland via a causeway across the salt marsh. Nahant Country Club serves this unusual community in terrain shaped by the peninsula's granite ledge and the Atlantic exposure on three sides, in a town where the combination of the water on all sides, the wealthy summer colony, and the year-round year-round residential population give golf an island-like context. One small course serves a very small and geographically constrained community, in one of the North Shore's most distinctively sited residential settings — a peninsula town where the ocean is visible from nearly every point.