Northeast Harbor Golf Club

Golf at Northeast Harbor dates to 1895, when J.G. Thorp sketched out the first holes on Corson's Farm, and the young club was soon playing matches against neighboring Kebo Valley. In 1916 forty-nine shareholders bought land for a permanent course on Mount Desert Island. British amateur Arthur Lockwood designed the first nine, which opened in 1919, and Herbert Strong extended the course to eighteen holes in 1925. Hard times in the 1930s and the war years forced the club to let Strong's outer nine return to the woods, and for decades Northeast Harbor played as a fifteen-hole course after summer families and year-round neighbors began reclaiming holes one by one in the 1970s. The club was finally made whole again as a full eighteen in 2000. Today the semi-private course winds through rugged, wooded island terrain close to Acadia National Park, an intimate layout that rewards precision and local knowledge over power.