Granite Links Golf Club

Granite Links Golf Club occupies a former quarry site on the highest point in Quincy, Massachusetts, offering views across Boston Harbor and the city skyline. Designer John Sanford routed the course across the reclaimed industrial landscape in the mid-1990s, transforming the granite excavation into a links-style layout that opened for play in 2003. The property's elevation and exposed ledge create a windswept character uncommon in the Boston area, with firm turf conditions and strategic bunkering that reward ground-game approaches. The routing makes extensive use of the quarry's natural contours and elevation changes, with holes playing across ridges and into former excavation bowls. Sanford incorporated the site's granite outcroppings into the design, leaving rock faces visible along several holes and using the natural drainage patterns to create firm playing surfaces. The course stretches over 7,000 yards from the back tees, with wide fairways that narrow at landing zones and greens that feature subtle internal contours. Granite Links operates as a public facility, unusual for a course of this scale and conditioning standard in the greater Boston market. The club includes a second nine-hole course, also designed by Sanford, and maintains a year-round practice facility. The clubhouse preserves elements of the quarry's industrial heritage while providing views across the harbor to downtown Boston, approximately six miles to the northwest.