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Baltimore Country Club: East

Lutherville Timonium, MD Private

Overview

The East Course at Baltimore Country Club, also known as the Five Farms Course, was one of many outstanding A.W. Tillinghast designs nationally ranked for decades by Golf Digest. Still, even jewels need polishing now and then. The club brought in Keith Foster, perhaps the most modest of modern-day course architect. He chooses to work solely on restorations, no more than two at one time, and declines to self-promote. He won’t even nominate any of his courses for any of Golf Digest’s course awards, preferring to let others handle that. At Baltimore C.C., Foster removed trees (which nearly everyone is doing these days), rebuilt greens to make them manageable with today’s green speeds, re-established Tillinghast’s bunkering, regrassed everything and brought back sparkle to the East Course. Par 3s rank among the best Tillinghast buiilt, as does the stretch run from the par-5 14th to the strong par-3 17th.

About

Holes 18
Length 7002
Slope 141
Facility Type Private
Year Opened 1926
Designer A.W. Tillinghast/(R) Brian M. Silva, ASGCA/(R) Keith Foster, ASGCA

Awards

100 Greatest
100 Greatest the Second 100
Best Courses in Every State

Second 100 Greatest: Ranked from 2013-'16 and since 2019.

2023-'24 ranking: 106th.

Previous ranking: 102nd.

Highest ranking: 42nd, 1995-'96.

100 Greatest: Ranked 1966, and 1969-2004.

Best in State: Ranked second, 2013-'22. Ranked third, 2011-'12.

Current ranking: 2nd.

Panelists

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

4.5

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.4954
Character
7.6394
Challenge
7.5019
Layout Variety
7.5862
Fun
7.5013
Aesthetics
7.4076
Conditioning
7.6427

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