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The Brooks golf team competes in the Independent School League (ISL).

Brooks golfers practice at two local private courses:

Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill opened in 2006 and is a spectacular Brian Silva design. At 7,161 yards from the tips, the course is one of the most challenging layouts in New England. Renaissance also features a world-class practice facility, which Brooks golfers use to hone their skills. The practice facilities include a dedicated short game area with three green complexes and several greenside and fairway bunkers; a practice range; and multiple putting greens with chipping and bunkered areas.

North Andover Country Club is only a few minutes from campus and provides a very different sort of challenge. The 9-hole course that overlooks Lake Cochichewick first opened for play in 1909. True to the design styles of the time, the course isn't overly long and has very small and severely sloped greens, placing a premium on accuracy off the tee and a deft short-game touch.

In recent years, the team has garnered individual and collective accolades. In 2023, the team had its best-ever result at the ISL year-end Kingman tournament at Newport Country Club, finishing in third place (out of 14 teams), just one shot out of second. At that tournament, Payne Plum '23, Jack McDermott '23, and Mason Malouf '25 finished in a tie for 5th with scores of 75 that earned them all-ISL honors.

Brooks was the only school to have more than one golfer finish in the top eight. At the Kingman in 2022, the team finished 5th. Jack McDermott '23 shot a 75, tying for 4th and earning All-ISL status.

Looking back to the years prior to the pandemic, in 2017 and 2018, Nick Li ’19 earned all-ISL honors and would go on to play for Trinity College. His teammate Rylan McGinn ’19 earned a spot on Bowdoin's varsity squad. The 2016 team was awarded the Moonves Sportsmanship Award, the second time Brooks has received the award since 2012. In the spring of 2012, Johnny Gratton ’13 was named Boston Globe League MVP and the team won the ISL Sportsmanship Award. In 2013 Gratton earned league MVP honors a second time, and in the summer of 2013, he qualified for the US Amateur at the Country Club.

Competition in the ISL follows a match-play format, with the exception of the Kingman Tournament, which is stroke play.