Playing a round

If you can't get away for a golf vacation, here's a sampling of the best courses the area has to offer.

Baltimore area

Beechtree GC, Aberdeen

Bulle Rock, Havre de Grace

Mount Pleasant GC, Baltimore

Greystone GC, White Hall

Mountain Branch GC, Joppa

State of Maryland

Musket Ridge GC, Myersville

Links at Lighthouse Sound, Ocean City

Rocky Gap, Cumberland

Swan Point GC, Issue

Worthington Manor GC, Urbana

Middle Atlantic region

Wyncote GC, Oxford, Pa.

Cacapon Resort, Berkeley Springs, W. Va.

Bear Trap Dunes GC, Ocean View, Del.

Penn National GC, Fayetteville, Pa.

Augustine GC, Stafford, Va.

-John W. Stewart