Bellows Falls Country Club

Bellows Falls Country Club was founded in 1922 on a small six-hole course in Saxtons River. The following year the club bought 95 acres of farmland in Rockingham, along Route 103, and moved there. Its new nine-hole layout was the work of David "Deacon" Brown, the Scottish professional who had won the 1886 Open Championship, and his parkland design survives largely intact a century later. Over the decades holes were lengthened and the starting and finishing holes were changed, with other improvements made along the way, but the character of Brown's routing endured. In 2018 a golf historian writing about the course called it a must-play in southern Vermont. The club sits on a small lane across the road from the Vermont Country Store, about three miles from Exit 6 of Interstate 91, and welcomes daily-fee players.