Golf in Ocean City
I'm not going to pretend I like golf. In fact, I wholly subscribe to Mark Twain's "Golf is a good walk, ruined." However, I've gotten some e-mails asking me about golf courses in Ocean City, and the town spends many marketing dollars on attracting golfers to OC.
According to OceanCityGolf.com, the "greater" OC area has 17 golf courses. That includes most of the greens and fairways on all of Delmarva. Many of the courses on Delmarva have phenomenal views of the back bays, which is a unique bonus.
Eagle's Landing, Golf Digest's seventh-best course in Maryland, is one of the most popular public golf courses in the area. It's about two miles south of Route 50 on Stephen Decatur Road (Route 611) and offers a spectacular view of the Sinepuxent Bay and the Assateague Island National Seashore.
The Links at Lighthouse Sound is another famous course in OC. Golf Digest named it a top 10 public course in the country, and put it on its top five list for Maryland. It is on the west side of Ocean City and has a great view of the skyline and the Assawoman Bay. Here's an interesting fact: Lighthouse Sound has the longest cart bridge in the country, taking golfers from the mainland to the marsh-side holes. Thomas Ruark Inc. developed Lighthouse Sound as well as the courses at the Glen Riddle Golf Club, Rum Pointe and Beach Club Golf Links golf clubs, and the Nutters Crossing Golf Club in Salisbury.
The Ocean City Golf Club is one of the older clubs in town, and is about four miles more down Route 611 from Eagle's Landing. There are two courses at the club and both have gotten great reviews.
Since I'm not the most qualified golf reviewer in town, someone else drop a comment about what the best OC golf courses are. What did I miss?
On the other hand, ask me about mini-golf, and I can tell you anything you want.
Comments
Some places that are too nice/ too hard for me to golf at:
Ocean Pines
Deer Run
I've played these courses and I can tell you that they are both outstanding golf courses. Beautifully maintained and offering some challenging holes. Each has some advantages over Lighthouse Sound. The most important of which is the wind, the lack thereof. Lighthouse Sound is an absolutely spectacular course but the wind is simply atrocious.
Posted by: bryanintimonium | August 26, 2008 8:43 AM
Deer Run with an advantage over Lighthouse Sound? Pleese! That would be greens fees only as Deer Run is really known as Dog Run. For the price and quality of the course, twilight at Rum Pointe cannot be beat!
Posted by: Mike Rut | September 3, 2008 4:50 PM