Golf in Stoneham

Stoneham is a Middlesex County inner suburb between Woburn and Malden north of Boston, a compact community within the Route 128 ring. Three clubs serve the community — Bear Hill Golf Club, Stoneham Oaks Golf Course, and Unicorn Golf Course — in a town where the combination of the Route 93 access, the Middlesex Fells Reservation to the east, and the residential density give golf a somewhat compressed but active inner-suburb market. Three clubs in one small town reflects the consistent demand for accessible neighborhood golf in an inner suburb where open land is increasingly scarce, and where the compact nine-hole format has proven more sustainable than full-size regulation layouts.