Golf in Cecil Co, MD; Here We Go!

Hello Golfers!

In the weeks and months to come I will be posting as much information as I can on golf related activities in the Upper Chesapeake Bay region. The goal is to provide golfers planning visits to Cecil County, MD with inside info on the great public golf available in the area, plus some tips on where to stay, eat and relax in northeastern Maryland, plus nearby New Castle County, Delaware and Chester County, PA.

Our home base for these reports will be North East, MD, home of Chesapeake Bay Golf Club, North East. (Its sister club, CBGC Rising Sun...formally Chantily Glof Club...is about 5 miles north of here.) I've been a member of CBGC since it openned in 1990, and moved into a home next ot the sixteenth green in 1998 so I've seen this course change and mature. I've also seen new courses be contructed in the area so that now golfers have a variety of tracks to play with greens fees from $30 to $150 and slopes from the low 100's to the high 140's.

This area is by no means a new Mrytle Beach or even Ocean City, MD, but there are some fantastic tracks in the area. Bulle Rock in Havre de Grace, MD is the premier course, home now to the LPGA McDonald's Championship to be held in June, 05. Wyncote in Oxford,PA has drawn rave reviews since its openning. Patriot's Glen Golf Course in Elkton, MD is about three years old and offers a challenging yet very playable addition to our inventory of choices for the visiting golfer.

Its January with 8 inches of snow on the ground, so what a better time to start thinking about teeing it up! I hope my reviews and current information will help golfers pick the right courses for their visit to the area, so keep checking back as more reviews get posted. I'll also let you in on the best places to stay and eat and believe me there are some fine dining to be discovered in North East and Cecil County.

So we're off and running; lets play 36!

Fairways and greens,

Jim