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    Caves Valley Golf Club

    Owings Mills, MD Private

    Overview

    To compare the present Caves Valley against that which was originally built in the early 1990s is to recognize how much Tom Fazio has felt obligated to adjust his courses to today’s club and ball technology. Back in 1991, the opening hole was a dogleg-left with a trap at the turn. Today it has four bunkers framing the landing area. The par-5 third had just two “buffer bunkers” along a lake to the right to stop high-handicap slices from landing in the drink. Those buffers are still there, but so too are three enormous bunkers down the left, stretching over 300 yards from the back tee. And so it is all the way around Caves Valley. There are now target bunkers mainly in play for big hitters and frontal bunkers at several greens to force pin-seekers to throw it in the air. Caves Valley is a players’ club, and one remains a player only by being constantly challenged during a round.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7340
    Slope 142
    Facility Type Private
    Designer Thomas Fazio, ASGCA

    Awards

    100 Greatest the Second 100
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2013.
    2023-'24 ranking: 157th.
    Previous ranking: 135th.
    Highest ranking: No. 132, 2015-'16.

    Best in State: Ranked second, 2011-'12. Ranked third, 2013-'22. Ranked inside the top 5, 1993-2010.
    Current ranking: 3rd.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.3

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.3084
    Character
    7.6016
    Challenge
    7.2624
    Layout Variety
    7.3136
    Fun
    7.3647
    Aesthetics
    7.5125
    Conditioning
    7.5059

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