Frederick, Maryland - Traveling Golfer
The Traveling Golfer returns to Frederick, Maryland to showcase:
-Richland GC -
-Clustered Spires GC -
-The Club at PB Dye -
Also great beer from Barley and Hops...and TRUE Maryland Blue Crabs from Avery's Maryland Grille. With a stay at the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson right next to the Francis Scott Key Mall, a road trip to Frederick, MD should be on the list of every traveling golfer from the Mid-Atlantic.
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The city of Frederick is the county seat of Frederick County. Frederick County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Maryland.
In Frederick you will find the Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK).
Frederick is located in Frederick County in the northern part of the state of Maryland, and is occasionally considered part of Western Maryland.
Main routes in Frederick, MD are Interstate 70, Interstate 270, U.S. Route 340, U.S. Route 40, U.S. Route 40 Alternate and U.S. Route 15.
In relation to nearby cities, Frederick is approximately 49 miles north and slightly west of Washington, D.C., 46 miles west of Baltimore, and 24 miles southeast of Hagerstown, Maryland.
Bodies of water in the city are Monocacy River, which runs to the east of the city, Carroll Creek. In addition you will find many neighborhood and city lakes and ponds. In the downtown area of Frederick you can find Culler Lake, a man-made small body of water.
Frederick, MD is the the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland. Frederick County is less than one hour from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and nearby Harpers Ferry.
Consider visiting the following neighborhoods in Frederick, MD:
Rivercrest in Frederick, MD, Villages Of Urbana, Wormans Mill, Urbana Highlands
The following are a list of some of the homes for sale Frederick MD in the past year:
401 Mohican Drive, Frederick, MD 21701, 2220 Thurston Road Frederick, MD 21704, 7701 Dance Hall Road, Frederick, MD 21701, 5950 River Ridge Road, Frederick, MD 21704, 3634 Denison Street, Frederick, MD 21704, 9118 Belvedere Drive, Frederick, MD 21704, and many more.
In Frederick, MD you will enjoy historic Downtown Frederick's arts and entertainment district, plenty of shopping, dining, and other attractions.
There are many tours offered in Frederick, MD.
A few of the Guided Downtown Walking Tours are:
Walking Tours of Historic Downtown Frederick, Guided Civil War Walking Tours
Pearls of Frederick Walking Tours, Taste Frederick Food Tours:
If you would like to tour the outdoors consider:
River & Trail Outfitters, Harpers Ferry Adventure Center, Guided Nature Programs
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Just in case you want to tour on your own, you'll find these great self-guided tours:
African American Heritage Sites Walking Tour, Destination Frederick Walking Tour, Covered Bridges Driving Tour
Frederick is home to a number of golf courses including:
Worthington Manor Golf Club, Clustered Spires Golf Course, P.B. Dye Golf Club, Hollow Creek Golf Club, Musket Ridge Golf Club, & Whiskey Creek Golf Club
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Frederick is also home to the annual Frederick Restaurant Week. This event is a week long promotion of some of the cities finest restaurants. Participating in Restaurant week will provide you with the opportunity to enjoy fixed meals at discounted prices.
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Don't forget to enjoy the Arts and Entertainment District in Downtown Frederick. Some of the performing arts companies and venues include:
Toby's Dinner Theatre,
Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre & Children's Theatre,
Community Bridge Mural,
Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center,
Frederick Arts Council,
Fredericktowne Players,
Gallery 322,
The Griffin Art Center,
Maryland Ensemble Theatre,
Maryland Shakespeare Festival,
Rebecca Pearl Gallery,
The Artists' Gallery,
Weinberg Center for the Arts,
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You'll find great cuisine in Frederick from a variety of restaurants including:
VOLT
The Orchard
Olives
Tasting Room
Red Horse Steak House
Uno Chicago Grill
Enjoy shopping in Frederick and surrounding areas at the Francis Scott Key Mall, Hagerstown Premium Outlets, Westview Promenade, and more!
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Digest (sept. 13): millersville's nocar rallies for senior amateur title
Digest (sept. 13): millersville's nocar rallies for senior amateur title
David Nocar of Millersville made two late birdies to finish with a 146 7175 to win the 89th Senior Amateur championship of the Maryland State Golf Association at rainy Worthington Manor Golf Club in Urbana on Wednesday. Craig Ostrom went from last place to a tie for first with the tournaments low round of 68 for a 36hole total of 146, but he was unable to make a scheduled playoff because a work commitment. George Murphy of Hillendale Country Club placed third with a 147.ET CETERACapitals opening...
Rattlewood GC, Mt. Airy Md. 180420
6300yd slope 125 from the back tees
Grade: B-
Mostly a wide-open hitters' course, relatively little in the way of obstructions or hazards. Good verticality, nice greens, really good condition especially for April & good sand in the bunkers. A good deal at the $45/18 price before noon during the week, with a cart, free lunch & a medium bucket of range-balls. Not too far out of town, not too much traffic, a pleasant drive & easy to get to. Only a few layout quirks & the Usual Suspects (houses & road-noise) keep this from being a great sleeper course. As it is it can't make me forget about Hampshire Greens or even Northwest even just among the MGC courses & certainly it wouldn't make me forget about the many area curses that are just bigger, better, more interesting & more challenging, but still this is a good course & a nice find. I would confidently call this the lower threshold of what I would consider to be a good, well-run public golf course. But if it were up to me, at the very least I would lower the greens for #3 & #11 by 6 feet & leave a berm behind them. As they are the greens are effectively invisible unless you're inside of 50 yards which is just bullshit, & I'd grow big between the #7 & #9 fairways to make the line of play obvious, at least move the forward tees left so they have a straight shot up the hill to the green. Right now there's just a giant waste area there that serves no purpose whatsoever other than to mislead players to hit left towards the #9 fairway. And I'd grow some waste on #6 on the far side of the pond near the cart-path. Otherwise the layout is pretty-much the best that can be done with the course, it's a good layout, challenging enough, & all that remains is to manage it well & have a fun round. Hard to ask for more given the land on which the course sits, really. It just would be nice if there weren't any houses on #13-#15 & on the #18th tee-box & fairway, but you can't have everything, really.
The thing is that #18 here is a lot like #1 at Hampshire Greens but #1 at HG is just better & that starts a mental train rolling that this course can't stop.It just cannot compete with a course that is almost the same price but is just better, hole after hole, & on top of that is maybe 20 miles to the south, & in that 20 mile radius there are a LOT of good public courses at or near the same price. Some that are clearly not this good, but even most of those are not a lot worse.
But in & of itself, considered in isolation, it's quite a decent course. The problem is that you're never going to consider this course in isolation. I just kept thinking this hole is a lot like #XX at course YY but that hole does the same thing better. In the end it's just squarely in the middle of the pack. A course with many solid good points, but no real knockout punch. But if you live in the area & want to play a decent course at a decent price, you definitely don't need to go driving away from this course to get that. There's none of the Falls Road Syndrome here (or worse the Patuxent Greens syndrome).
Still it is in Mt. Airy & that's at least 30 minutes away from Columbia or Rockville even with good traffic. The thing is that from any place other than Mt. Airy, Damascus or somewhere close, you either have to pass a better course to get here or there is at least one better course that's the same distance & degree of difficulty to get to. And this course, while decent, is just not in the same league as many better area courses, courses that are almost 1000 yards longer & 20 points higher from the back tees at or just slightly above this price-level. It’s clearly at the top of the bottom third: above Redgate, Falls Road, Patuxent Greens, Glendale, Penderbrook, Enterprise & the like, but not really up in the big leagues. I couldn't rate it above Pohick Bay or Walden, certainly not above Forest Greens. I'd put up with the houses to play Hampshire Greens or Cross Creek instead. There are so many good area golf courses that have the same level of housing & road-noise, even worse, that are still a better challenge of golf. It depends on what trade-offs you want to make to have the ability to swing for the fences on so many holes. Not saying that it's impossible to hit into trouble here, but it's pretty damm hard. You definitely don't have to play Precision Golf like at a lot of area courses.
Undoubtedly its real strength is the combination of decent price, facilities, verticality & layout, good greens & traps, modestly-long carries (nothing over 150 yards even from the back tees), easy to get to location & wide landing-areas largely unfettered with trees & waste. Important factors but it's not strong enough to take home a trophy among all the area courses. But with lowered expectations it's still a fun round.
Rock Harbor GC, Boulder Course, Winchester Va. 180303
Grade: A- It has to be done.
Black Par 72 7547 yards rating 75.7 slope 151
...wow.
What fun!
The course was definitely a little ragged around the edges which is what you get in exchange for not playing a flat course & playing in March, with a lot of wind & fallen tree-branches on the course. There were a lot of sand-traps with rocks in them (ironically), not all that small either, sometimes I had to just pull the ball over to a different part of the traps, but really again this is March golf. It's not going to be in spring & summer condition.
The big thing about this course is that is is very vertical, lots of up & down play, with a large spread between tees & a fair number of big carries, well over 200 yards. It is definitely a course to come to play if you think that you are a big hitter or you want to see what a big hitter's course is like. It has a lot of water & even in March the greens were in good shape, with decent fairways & fairway rough. But this course is really all about playing up & down hills & around obstacles. The fairways are wide enough but just barely so, with rare exception, & what you get in exchange for a wide fairway is a very long carry. it is definitely an adventure-course but not so much & so crazy as Blue Ridge Shadows.
This is a great course a rare find & absolutely one of the most entertaining courses that I've ever played...but that is because I like crazy-big courses that are hard to play. This is absolutely not some small course with tight lies that is as much a challenge to stay out of the woods as anything. Here, there really isn't that much of woods. There's a fair amount of waste & water, but not overwhelmingly so. It's really just a big course that truly challenges your ability to cover horizontal & vertical space & play decent golf while entertaining the hell out of you.
Without a doubt one of the best courses that I've ever played in my life, & what saddens me is that I would love to play it again but I'm afraid of overplaying it.
My only problems with this round were the houses surrounding a few holes, again the road noise in front, & the $70 cost to play a late Saturday round the first week in March. Other than that, I would recommend that anyone reading this play this course at least once. It's simply an awesome course.
It's not perfect.
But it's still pretty damm-good.
Easily 1 of the top 3 DC area public courses that I've played. I literally have a hard time thinking of a better area course to play, though I didn't want to score it as an A- because it is really just very-good not great. If there is an area course better than this one? I’ve yet to see it. Seriously.
I am proud to say that I’ve spent 25 years practicing to play a course like this even passably-well. Just well enough to not entirely embarrass myself to play it.
Most of the DC area courses are not even close to as good as this. Not even near, it's almost not even the same game. And there are quite a few that fall in there between $50 & $100/round for 18 with a cart. Not even Bethpage Black, not a single one that is this good. Don't get me wrong, the Black is a good course & has some very-nice holes but so much of it is mundane & a lot of the rest of it relies on waste & traps almost everywhere and long, thick rough that at 3 is barely playable. It's a good course but it's not *this* good. I mean this is almost like golfing Nirvana if you like a course with good verticality, that doesn't have big wide-open spray-hitters fairways but also doesn't have a lot of waste & woods off the fairways either.
I apparently pissed-off the guy who stored the carts by staying out on the course until dusk. He came out to me at the 17th teebox, said I'd gotten over 4 hours of golf so I should be happy, than “escorted” me off the course. I thought his attitude was ridiculous on many levels, especially considering that the clubhouse was not only still open but actually serving dinner, but I didn’t say anything to challenge him and then he began to get righteous. To tell a patron who had paid $70 to play your course that they had enough golf because they've played over 4 hours when they are standing there on the 17th teebox with a club trying to finish the round & you're dragging them off the course, that's pretty dense. But yeah, I would have been done long before that f it wasn't such a big, challenging, fun & open-enough course. His attitude was still bullshit. People don’t pay to play 4 hours of golf, it’s not like renting a room by the hour.
On the other hand be aware that it might just take an extra hour to finish your round if you’re out there by yourself.