Club History - Concord Country Club

woman putting golf ball, while others watch

Our History

The Concord Country Club began in 1895 as the Concord Golf Club at Nashawtuc Farm, founded by Moses Bradford and twenty charter golfers. With a five-dollar entrance fee and annual dues of the same amount, the Club quickly became a vibrant center for the emerging game. The original nine-hole course measured between 2,447 and 2,658 yards, as the greens were repositioned each season, giving players a refreshed layout each year. A round of nine holes took about an hour to play. In the Club’s first tournament, Moses Bradford posted the lowest men’s score with a 71, while Grace Keys earned the lowest women’s score with a 111.

By the end of 1895, the membership had grown to seventy golfers, and the Club soon played an important role in shaping golf in New England. It became a founding member of the Women’s Golf Association of Boston in 1900 and helped establish the Massachusetts Golf Association in 1903. A major milestone came in 1913, when the Club purchased the Brown Farm—including the barn that serves today as our Clubhouse. Members voted to form a new corporation, the Concord Country Club, complete with a Board of Governors and formal By-laws. That same year, interest in golf surged nationwide following American golfer and former caddy Francis Ouimet’s dramatic victory in the 1913 U.S. Open.

As enthusiasm for the sport grew, so did the Club. By the Club’s third season, a lawn tennis court had been laid out, and in 1913, two clay tennis courts were added. In 1915, the first “swimming pool” was created by damming a nearby brook, providing members with an early and memorable recreational amenity. A decade later, in 1925, the Club commissioned renowned golf course architect Donald Ross to design a second nine holes, which were constructed between 1926 and 1928—establishing much of the course enjoyed today. By 1980, the Club had evolved into a full-service recreational community, offering eighteen holes of golf, multiple tennis courts, and a modern swimming pool. Continued investment shaped the campus in the decades that followed: the Clubhouse was renovated in 1989, and in 2003, members approved the construction of a new wastewater treatment facility, pool, and Fieldhouse.