The Thousand Islands region provides some twenty golf courses within convenient range by automobile. A few links are accessible by boat, such as the Thousand Islands Country Club and the Grenadier Island Country Club.

Grenadier Island Country Club, Ian Coristine / 1000 Islands Photo Art

The 18-hole USGA course at the Thousand Islands Country Club is one of the nation's oldest, designed in the 1890s by Seth Raynor as private links on the Wellesley Island estate of George Boldt. At 6302 yds, Par 72, it was reputed to be the longest course in the country at the time. Eventually it became the Thousand Islands Country Club. The TICC now augments the fully irrigated Old Course with the shorter, adjacent Lake Course, considered less arduous at 5005 yds, Par 70.

Thousand Islands Country Club, Fourteenth Fairway, Boldt Castle in distance, Steve Weatherly photograph.

Wellesley Island State Park affords a third course on Wellesley Island. Long called "the Golf Links," for the better part of a century the nine holes served the cottage community of Thousand Island Park. New York State acquired the scenic and historic nine holes were acquired when it created Wellesley Island State Park. Players may use different tees for an eighteen-hole round.

The number of courses on the mainland shores continues to grow. Smuggler's Cove, for instance, is one of the later additions. Long (6500 yards from back tees), its eighteen holes are Par 72. Situated on the Thousand Islands Parkway, the course provides shuttle service to from the Glen House dock for golfers arriving by boat.

Smuggler's Cove Golf Course, Ian Coristine / 1000 Islands Photo Art.