For a complete golfing challenge with top off-course amenities and eye-popping views of the Boston skyline and harbor, it’s hard to beat Granite Links, a 27-hole semi-private facility just 10 miles south of the city. An honoree on the 2015-16 “Top 100 Golf Courses You Can Play” by Golf Digest and No. 18 on Golf Digest’s “Best Courses in Massachusetts 2017-18,” Granite Links is always impeccably conditioned. Any combo of the three nines (Quincy, Milton, Granite) play around 6,800 yards from the tips. Open and hilly, with a links feel courtesy of bunkers and fescue, the course toughens up considerably when the wind is up, while the granite outcroppings remind you of its past life as a quarry. For post-round play, there’s the Tavern, named one of the top 50 19th holes in the country by Golf Digest, and Crossing Nines, a “turnshack” next to the lighted driving range.

Granite Links Golf Club

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