Granite Links (Granite & Milton)

The 27 holes at Granite Links are laid out on top of two former landfill sites and old granite quarries. Incredibly, 900,000 truckloads of spoil from Boston’s “Big Dig” road tunneling project were used in course construction to cap the site with thirteen million tons of material.

"In this profession it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," architect John Sanford said. "The stars had to align, and the timing had to be perfect. The project was immensely expensive, so if the dirt had not been available, the project would never have happened.

The project required seventy-four permits from local, state, and federal agencies. It started from the macro approach, with steep landfill domes. We had to create a golf course on these steep slopes.

When you get into closing landfills and transforming them into a golf course you must deal with the engineering minutiae of settling issues, layering issues, and venting of the methane gases. I happen to enjoy that level of detail so we dove right in."

The original Milton nine was completed in 2003, followed a year later by the Granite nine. In 2006, the Quincy nine was added to complete the 27-hole development. The club was chosen to host four editions of the BJ’s Charity Championship on the Legends Tour, starting in 2005.

Kathy Whitworth, with 88 wins on the LPGA Tour, retired from competitive golf after playing in the first of those two-day, two-player ladies team tournaments. Nancy Scranton and Christa Johnson won in 2006 and 2007, before Cindy Figg-Currier and Sheri Turner claimed the final event a year later.