The beauty is everywhere at this South Shore gem. A look at the clubhouse from the 18th. Throughout the decade of the 1980s and well into the 90s it seemed that golf course architects were more concerned with their reputations within the industry than serving the needs of the ordinary people who would wind up bedeviled by their creations.
Island greens with slopes so severe that skiers dreamed of the day when snow hit the area.
Trees set in the middle of fairways, hidden ponds and bunkers, railroad ties everywhere and holes so diabolical that no golfer, without Global Positioning Satellite equipment, stood a chance of finding their way from the first tee to the 18th green. Somewhere in the last five years some sanity has returned to the design of courses and nowhere is there a better example of this than the Atlantic Country Club in Plymouth. Mark Mungen designed a track that couples natural beauty with 18 different holes, which are challenging, enjoyable and appealing to golfers of all handicaps. Atlantic s holes are not simple, but they are straightforward. What you see is what you get and what you see is a lovely setting, amid scrub pines and marsh lands which one associates with Cape Cod.