Sankaty Head Golf Club

Sankaty Head Golf Club sits on a bluff at Nantucket's far eastern edge, above the lighthouse that shares its name, and opened in 1923. It was designed not by a touring architect but by Emerson Armstrong, a local Siasconset man and former club champion, giving the course a homespun, distinctly island character. Laid out as one of America's rare genuine links, it plays firm and fast over tumbling, treeless ground exposed to constant ocean wind, favoring the running shot over the aerial game; Skip Wogan added bunkering in the mid-1920s. The club is perhaps best known for its Sankaty Head Caddie Camp, organized in 1930 and still operating between the eleventh and thirteenth fairways, where generations of young caddies have trained and earned scholarships each summer since the Depression.