Saltwood Links sits on a fragment of cliffside that the Atlantic has been re-drawing for ten thousand years. Three courses, a 38-room inn, and a single long table where strangers become regulars by the second course of dinner.
The original course — eighteen holes routed along a kilometer of weathered headland by Scottish architect Alec Mackelroy in 2014. Considered by many the finest piece of links land north of Pebble Beach.
Wind off the bay shapes nearly every shot. The tenth, an uphill par four called Whaler's Rest, has a green that simply ends in ocean.
Explore the Bluff →Shorter, lower, and built on the salt marsh that opens onto the bay. Tideway is a thinking player's course — width off the tee, but greens defended by the wind and the water table.
The closing five run alongside the lighthouse channel; on a falling tide, herons stand sentinel in the eighteenth fairway.
Explore Tideway →A converted lighthouse keeper's quarters, expanded by local architects Thom & Hale. Quilted wool, raw oak, plaster the colour of beach grass. Dinner is shared at one twelve-meter table — fishermen, golfers, and the occasional bewildered hiker.
Lodging & Dining →