The best golf courses in Lakeville, MA sit inside a town of roughly 12,000 people, which is the odd and useful fact this guide is built on. Poquoy Brook Golf Club and Lakeville Country Club are the two full public eighteens. Heritage Hill Golf Course is the par 54 executive track, LeBaron Hills Country Club is the members' club with a public dining room, and Broken Tee Virtual Golf Club keeps the season alive in February. Below you'll find all five, three more courses within twenty minutes, and a straight answer on which ones a visitor can get on.
A Golfer's Map of Lakeville and the Ring Beyond It
Lakeville's courses sit at four separate corners of a rural town, and none is walkable from another. Poquoy Brook is off Leonard Street on the Middleborough side, Lakeville Country Club is on Clear Pond Road near the town beach, LeBaron Hills is out on Rhode Island Road toward Freetown, and Heritage Hill sits off its own drive south of the center. Ten minutes of driving separates the farthest two.
Route 18 and Route 105 cross at the town center and Route 140 runs the length of town toward New Bedford, so moving from one first tee to the next means two-lane roads and no traffic. Three I-495 exits sit just over the Middleborough line, which is why golfers from Boston turn up on a Saturday without ever seeing the town center.
Push the radius to twenty minutes and three more public eighteens come into range. Eight courses and a simulator club inside that circle is a deeper golf market than the population suggests, and it's why a round here rarely needs booking a week out. If you're building a weekend around it, the guide to things to do in Lakeville covers the hours between rounds.
The Five Golf Properties Inside Lakeville
Poquoy Brook Golf Club: The Longest Public Test in Town
Poquoy Brook Golf Club is the best public course in Lakeville and the one to book if you want a real card. Geoffrey Cornish laid it out in the 1960s as a parkland eighteen, par 72 at 6,762 yards from the tips, with tight fairways and plenty of water. It has hosted US Senior Open qualifiers and the Massachusetts Open three times between 2004 and 2010.
Pick a forward set of tees unless you play to a low number, and book online, since phone bookings ask for payment during the call. The 25 station range closes Monday mornings until noon, and cart rentals stop at 3 p.m. for eighteen holes, which quietly ends a lot of late-afternoon plans.
Lakeville Country Club: Public Access and a Year-Round Season
Lakeville Country Club is a public course that keeps private-course conditions, eighteen holes at par 72 and 6,335 yards, known locally for three picturesque finishing holes. Owners Derek and Madelyn Maksy run leagues, tournaments and outings up to 150 people alongside daily play, so ask which rate structure applies when you call.
What separates it from everything else here is that it stays open year round, weather permitting. On a mild February Saturday, this is the number you dial. The clubhouse restaurant and full bar are open to the public with a sunset deck over the water, though the kitchen keeps short hours and doesn't serve lunch on Saturdays.
LeBaron Hills Country Club: The Members' Club With a Public Dining Room
LeBaron Hills Country Club on Rhode Island Road is the private club of the four, with a head golf professional, an events team and an executive chef on staff. A visitor with clubs should call the pro shop about access before driving over rather than assuming a walk-on tee time exists.
What any visitor can do is eat here, which isn't obvious from the road. The main restaurant and the terrace with its fire pit are open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, with course views and a menu running from pub plates to an occasion dinner. Only the Grille Room is members-only.
Heritage Hill Golf Course: Par 54 and Two Hours of Wedge Practice
Heritage Hill Golf Course is an eighteen hole executive course at par 54, routed through tall pines with bentgrass greens, three sets of tees and water on more than half the holes. It suits a junior, a beginner, or a good player who wants short-game work instead of five hours of driver.
The course was formerly The Back Nine Club and directories still carry the old name, so don't assume you've found two different places. There's a driving range, a stocked pro shop, a golf academy and the Back 9 Pub on site.
Broken Tee Virtual Golf Club: Four Simulators and a Winter League
Broken Tee Virtual Golf Club on County Street runs four Full Swing simulators loaded with more than fifty championship courses, plus a lounge with a craft beer list. Winter and spring nine-hole leagues are open to anyone, and lessons come from PGA professional and owner Mark Kitchen.
Bays book by the hour or half hour, and an hour per person is the working rule for eighteen holes. There's no kitchen, so food comes from Fat Cousins Pizza next door, which sends it over rather than making you break mid-round.
Three Public Courses Within a Twenty-Minute Drive
Acushnet River Valley Golf Course is the best value round near Lakeville, a municipal championship course the town of Acushnet owns, designed by Brian Silva and opened in 1998. It plays to par 72 at about 6,807 yards, with a front nine through mature pines that rewards accuracy over distance and a back nine laid out as a Scottish links. Golf Digest rates it four stars, and weekday mornings are the soft tee times.
Olde Scotland Links in Bridgewater, about twenty minutes northwest, is a links-style public eighteen founded in 1997. The ground walks well and the design favors strategy over punishment, but it's exposed enough that wind is a genuine factor rather than a talking point. Black Hat Brew Works is minutes away if the round calls for a pint afterward.
Rochester Golf Club, roughly fifteen minutes southeast, is the short one: about 5,250 yards to a par of 69 and quick to play. That makes it the pick for a mixed-ability foursome, or for a 4 p.m. start in September when a longer track would leave you finishing in the dark.
Booking, Carts, and What a Visitor Should Know First
Poquoy Brook and Lakeville Country Club are the straightforward public bookings, Heritage Hill is walk-on friendly outside peak weekend mornings, LeBaron Hills needs that call to the pro shop, and Broken Tee is a reservation like any other bay rental. None of the courses is served by public transit, so a car isn't optional.
Pro shop hours move with weather and traffic, and Poquoy Brook's run roughly 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. If the pro shop there is closed, the Poquoy Brook Pub takes green fee payment, which tells you how central the pub is to the operation. It seats 26 at a granite bar with thirty taps, opens seven days from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and books live music most Saturday evenings.
Three of the four courses have a bar attached and all three serve non-golfers, which is unusual in a market this size. For clubhouse decks and taprooms, see the Lakeville nightlife guide; for dinner off the courses, the Lakeville restaurants roundup covers the town and the ring around it.
The Off-Season, and Where the Clubs Live From November to April
Golf here has a hard winter edge. Snow, ice and nor'easters run from December into March, and The Old Farmer's Almanac called for above normal temperatures with below normal snowfall across the 2025 to 2026 season. The best time to visit Lakeville guide walks through the rest of the calendar.
When the courses close, the gear problem starts. Damp basements and unheated garages are rough on leather grips, a stitched bag and a rangefinder's electronics, which is the case for climate controlled storage in Lakeville rather than a corner of the cellar. A 5×10 unit is roughly garden-shed sized and takes two bags, a push cart and the winter gear that displaces them.
The same November weekend clears out everything else. Boats come off Long Pond before the ice, so boat storage frees the driveway, and car storage handles the second vehicle that only earns its space between May and October.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a golf club in Lakeville, MA?
Yes, four of them. Poquoy Brook Golf Club and Lakeville Country Club are public eighteen hole courses, Heritage Hill Golf Course is a public par 54 executive layout, and LeBaron Hills Country Club is a member club with a restaurant open to the public. Broken Tee Virtual Golf Club adds four indoor simulators on County Street.
Which golf course in Massachusetts is considered the nicest?
The state's most celebrated courses sit outside this region, and none is in Lakeville. Locally, Poquoy Brook is the strongest public test in town, Lakeville Country Club holds the best conditions and plays year round, and Acushnet River Valley is the best-rated municipal within twenty minutes at four Golf Digest stars.
What is the most exclusive country club in Massachusetts?
The state's genuinely exclusive clubs are all closer to Boston. Around Lakeville, LeBaron Hills Country Club is the only members' club among the four golf properties, and even there the restaurant, terrace and fire pit are open to anybody who walks in Tuesday through Sunday.
Is Heritage Hill Golf Course the same as the Back 9 in Lakeville?
Same place. Heritage Hill Golf Course was previously The Back Nine Club, and the old name still appears in directories and on social media, which sends people looking for two courses that don't both exist. The attached bar kept the shorter form and trades as the Back 9 Pub.
Which month is the best to visit Massachusetts for golf?
September, in southeastern Massachusetts. The air cools to comfortable, the summer crowds have gone, and tee times open at courses that were booked solid in July. May and June are the next best window before the heat, while January and February belong to the simulators and the occasional mild day at Lakeville Country Club.
Storage Near the Lakeville Courses
Golf gear is seasonal by nature, and so is most of what shares a garage with it. Value Store It's Lakeville facility rents month to month with no long term contract, so a unit can come and go with the season. A 5×5 locker handles a bag, a pull cart and a bin of cold-weather layers, while a 10×5 space or a 5×15 unit fits when clubs share room with patio furniture.
Larger sizes cover the moves rather than the sport. 10×10 units hold roughly a one bedroom's worth of furniture, 10×15 storage absorbs a full garage, and 10×20 and 10×30 spaces are sized for a household or a small business. If you're guessing between two, the unit size guide shows what fits before you commit.
