Highland Green Golf Club
Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine · Midcoast golf market
- Access
- public
- Holes
- 9
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Highland Green Golf Club is a 9-hole, links-style course built in 2004-2005 on the grounds of Highland Green, a 635-acre, purpose-built 55+ active-adult community just off Topsham's Coastal Connector, minutes from downtown Brunswick and Bowdoin College. Unlike most of this platform's golf anchors, the course itself carries no membership program and no barrier to entry -- it is public, daily-fee golf, and since 2023 it has been operated under a lease by the separately owned and operated Brunswick Golf Club, which handles turf maintenance and pro-shop operations while offering Highland Green golfers reciprocal reduced rates at its own Brunswick course. What makes Highland Green a genuine golf-living anchor rather than an ordinary municipal course with houses nearby is the community it was purpose-built for: Highland Green (the residential community, covered separately) was developed by Sea Coast Management Co. specifically around this course and a large Community Center, drawing 55+ buyers from 34 states to a mix of custom single-family homes, cottages, and apartment-style residences across a 635-acre campus that also includes a 230-acre nature preserve. The course, its clubhouse, and O'Hara's On the Green restaurant and pub sit on the community's own grounds and are marketed by Highland Green itself as a defining lifestyle amenity, even though any member of the public can walk in and pay to play the same nine holes.
A note on entity identity, verified directly this session: search results repeatedly surface a distinct nearby facility, The Highlands (highlandsrc.com), a 98-acre continuing-care retirement community (independent living through memory care) also in Topsham that is NOT the same entity as Highland Green -- the two share a golf-and-lifestyle relationship (Highlands residents are encouraged to golf at Highland Green) but are separately developed, separately branded, and offer very different housing/care products. A widely repeated AI-generated summary describing Highland Green's course as an '18-hole championship golf course' is also incorrect and was not used in this record -- the course is confirmed by its own scorecard, GolfLink, and multiple course-database sources as a 9-hole, par-35, 2,910-yard layout.
Golf & Course
The course is a modest, Scottish-flavored 9-hole design (par 35, 2,910 yards from the longest tees) built specifically for the Highland Green community rather than as a stand-alone golf destination, and it does not appear in any national course-ranking list reviewed this session. Its significance to a golf-oriented homebuyer is entirely about what it represents for daily life at Highland Green -- walkable, low-key, resident-convenient golf -- rather than championship pedigree. The 2023 operating transition to Brunswick Golf Club brought reseeded turf, tee boxes, and greens along with the reciprocal-rate arrangement described above; buyers should treat the golf product as an evolving, professionally managed amenity rather than a static, developer-controlled one.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
There is no golf membership tied to buying a home at Highland Green. The course is open to the public on a pay-as-you-play basis (greens fees reported around $30 for 18 holes / $20 for 9 holes, plus cart fees, though buyers should confirm current 2026 rates directly, as published figures found this session were not dated to a specific current rate sheet). Highland Green residents pay the same or a similar structure -- one source described it as residents 'only pay for the course if they use it' -- rather than golf being bundled into the community's cooperative fee. Homeownership at Highland Green confers no special golf privileges beyond convenient proximity.
Lifestyle & Amenities
O'Hara's On The Green Restaurant and Pub sits on the course and is open to the public, giving the course a genuine social-hub role for the surrounding community beyond golf itself.
Location & Surrounding Area
The course sits within the Highland Green campus off the Coastal Connector in Topsham, Sagadahoc County, a few minutes from downtown Brunswick, Bowdoin College, and Mid Coast Hospital, and within the broader Midcoast Maine golf-living market alongside Samoset Resort (Rockport) and Boothbay Harbor.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current 2026 greens fees, cart fees, and any season-pass or resident-rate program directly with Highland Green Golf Club / Brunswick Golf Club, as no official current rate sheet was captured this session.
- Do not confuse Highland Green with The Highlands (highlandsrc.com), a separate 98-acre continuing-care retirement community also in Topsham that shares informal golf access to this same course but is a distinct entity with its own ownership and housing/care products.
Notable
- Highland Green Golf Club has been operated under a lease by the separately owned Brunswick Golf Club since 2023, following a reopening after a period under new management.
- The course is a 9-hole, par-35, 2,910-yard Scottish-style layout, not an 18-hole championship course -- a claim repeated in some AI-generated search summaries and not used in this record.
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