Thoughtful design with good signage
Property owners very welcoming
Easy to walk and relatively cart friendly

rough can be unforgiving
a few long walks between holes

I expect this course to age like a fine burgundy
private course which I believe is more of an asset than liability

PLEASE NOTE: this is private land; open to public play on Wednesdays and Fridays. Text 443-907-6215 to play - (they were very welcoming).

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+ Some of the prettiest wooded holes I've played: you see the basket, you see the various lines


+ Nice use of the creeks on a few early holes. Examples: The green on hole #2 has the creek on three sides; the fairway on hole #6 has a creek on hole two. Number six is also very pretty par three. This time with a creek entirely up the right hand side and a narrow fairway with woods along the left. Once past #6 the creeks don't figure into the design much


+ A couple of narrow gaps off the tees (#3 and #4 are both par 4's that play mostly in open fields, but you have to get through gaps in the treelines to have any chance at scoring)


+ You're in the woods after hole #4, and there are a lot of mid-fairway gaps to consider. The lines are all very fair even though we are definitely in the woods on a new-ish course. The right trees have been removed, and the right trees have been left


+ Two of the best holes have baskets up on mounds. #10 is an absolutely gorgeous slight dogleg left with the approach through a marshy area up to a basket up on a mound. You need to be able to throw a controlled left turner almost all of the 382' for a shot at birdie, but for shorter arms, it's a really good par. Hole #12 is a 463' par 4 with narrow gaps midway down the fairway, but if you make it through them, you'll land in an open approach area with a magnificently placed basket on a rocky mound slightly to the right. Two very good throws and you're putting for birdie

- A few too many short 3's, especially on the front 9. They're very pretty holes, and they require precision, but at times I felt like I was only throwing controlled upshots


- Hole #18 is a par 4, made very tight by a series of backyard sheds and structures on the right, and a big slope dropping down to the woods on the left. I understand this is the nature of designing a layout that borders private homes, but I found myself dinking and dunking to stay out of trouble, which is an unfortunate way to finish on a very good course

~ Not much elevation, they're using everything they could find. The hill on the very short #16 came as a surprise


~ Scrubby and overgrown first half of the first hole had me worried that I would have had to fight through a lot of weeds, but the rest of the fairways were in great shape


~ Although the tees are in good shape, they're turf mats at ground level. The one exception is #17, a short straight downhill ace run with the tee up on a wooden platform


~ Not a lot of RHFH needed after a few early tee shots



COURSE AMENITIES:
Prodigy T2 baskets (some are temporary, others are permanent); turf tees; excellent signage. A few longish walks around the cornfields, but the navigation is very good. Benches or stumps at most tees (and one, hilariously, has two folding chairs)


RECOMMENDED COMBINATIONS:
10 minutes from Calvert Regional Park for a day of primarily wooded golf