Wyckoff Country Club closes November 1. If it's on your Century Club list, the clock is running.

When we started the Mass Century Club, the whole point was that these courses had survived everything a century could throw at them: wars, recessions, highways, and changing tastes. This fall, one of them won't survive what comes next.

Wyckoff Country Club in Holyoke is closing to make way for housing. And on the Cape, Cape Cod Country Club in East Falmouth is headed for a solar farm, a couple of years short of its hundredth birthday. Here's what we know.

Wyckoff Country Club, Holyoke: last day November 1

Wyckoff's owner, Cesar Ruiz, announced on October 13 that the club will close on November 1, 2026. Events booked for November 2 and later have been canceled. The plan for the roughly 110-acre property is an upscale neighborhood of up to 126 homes. The land is already zoned residential, so no zoning change is needed.

Ruiz bought the property in 2025, originally planning a volleyball hall of fame and sports complex. In explaining the decision, he pointed to the rise of virtual golf and too many courses competing for the same golfers in the region.

It's a big loss for Western Mass golf. The course traces back to 1898, when it opened as the Mount Tom Golf Club. Holyoke businessman J. Lewis Wyckoff brought in Donald Ross, who redesigned it in the 1910s and grew it to 18 holes. It has been reshaped since, Interstate 91 included, but for 128 years it has been one of the oldest courses in the state that you could simply book and play.

If Wyckoff is on your list, you have about two weeks.

What this means for the Century Club

The Century Club is every public-access course in Massachusetts that's at least 100 years old. It was always going to be a moving target, and this is what that looks like. Wyckoff will stay on the list, marked closed. If you've already played it, it counts on your card for good: you got there in time. If you haven't, these next two weeks are the last chance anyone gets.

If you haven't started yet, this is a good reason to. Every one of these courses is a business, and not all of them will make it another hundred years. Some of the best golf in the state is at places that don't advertise and don't make headlines until the week they announce they're closing.

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Cape Cod Country Club: closing two years short of 100

Cape Cod Country Club opened in 1928 as Coonamessett, part of a resort overlooking Coonamessett Pond, and was designed by Devereux Emmet and Alfred Tull. It's one of Falmouth's oldest courses, and it would have turned 100 in 2028. Instead it's set to become a solar array.

The Cape Cod Commission approved the solar plan from PureSky Energy in September 2025, and Falmouth town meeting approved its part that fall. The course opened for 2026 without selling season passes, and the developer has said construction will begin once its agreements with the town are final. No last day has been announced, so call ahead before you make the drive.

It never made the Century Club, but it's a Golden Age course with real history. Treat this fall as your last chance to play it.

Track it in the app

The Golf TotalGuide app tracks your Century Club progress for you. Play a Century Club course, save the round, and it's checked off. There's a leaderboard too, so you can see how your count compares to other golfers chasing the list.

While you're in there, use it to plan the round: hole-by-hole maps, yardages on your Apple Watch, and course matches based on how you actually play, across more than 500 public-access courses in all six New England states.

Get Golf TotalGuide on the App Store, and if Wyckoff is still missing from your card, go play it before November 1.