QUASHNET VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB
🇺🇸 Mashpee, MA, USA
Designed by Geoffrey Cornish
Quashnet Valley Country Club sits in Mashpee on Cape Cod, designed by Geoffrey Cornish and opened in the 1960s. Cornish, a prolific New England architect who shaped dozens of courses across the region during the mid-twentieth century, worked with the natural Cape Cod terrain to create a layout that reflects the area's characteristic sandy soils and modest elevation changes. The course occupies land typical of the Upper Cape, with scrub oak, pitch pine, and native vegetation framing the holes.
The routing makes use of the property's gentle contours and natural drainage patterns common to this part of Massachusetts. Cornish's design philosophy emphasized playability and strategic variety rather than severe difficulty, and Quashnet Valley follows this approach with holes that reward accurate placement over pure distance. The course serves as a semi-private facility, welcoming both members and daily-fee play, which gives it a role in the Cape's broader golf community beyond the purely private clubs in the area.
Mashpee itself lies near the base of Cape Cod, positioned between Falmouth and the Mid-Cape towns, and the course benefits from the region's relatively temperate climate and coastal influence. Quashnet Valley represents the kind of accessible, well-maintained layout that Cornish built throughout New England—solid golf in a regional setting, without pretense to championship ambitions but offering a straightforward test for golfers of varying abilities.
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Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Quashnet Valley at Quashnet Valley Country Club has a Course Vaults score of 5.3 out of 10 based on 17 explicit golfer ratings.
Quashnet Valley was designed by Geoffrey Cornish.
Yes. Quashnet Valley at Quashnet Valley Country Club is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Quashnet Valley is 72.
Quashnet Valley plays 6,601 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Quashnet Valley is 134.