Westerly marks Rhode Island’s southwestern corner, where coastal New England golf meets the Connecticut border and Watch Hill’s seaside glamour. Misquamicut Club and Weekapaug Golf Club embody that shoreline tradition—wind-affected, socially rooted clubs where summer memberships and multi-generational families still set the tone. Ocean influence is constant: fog can soft-focus a morning round, afternoon sea breezes scramble club selection, and the shoulder seasons feel entirely different from inland New England parkland.
Summer people and year-round locals share the tee sheets, and charity events often support coastal community causes rather than big-city foundations. Beach days and golf days blur together in July and August, when Westerly’s population swells. Play here for the salt air and club tradition—Rhode Island’s smallest geography still somehow contains a distinctly different golf culture at every point of the compass, and Westerly’s is unmistakably coastal.