Boothbay Harbor Country Club, the No. 1 public-access layout in Maine, offers guests a taste of the private golf lifestyle.
Boothbay Harbor dates to 1921 with a nine-hole layout designed by Wayne Styles and John Van Kleek. The course was expanded to 18 holes in 1999 and more recently underwent a renovation by Bruce Hepner. The course is open to stay-and-play guests of the accompanying Boothbay Harbor Oceanside Golf Resort, and the club has other accommodations as well.
It’s all enough for BoothBay Harbor to rank as the No. 1 layout in Maine on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list. Golfweek’s Best offers many lists of course rankings, with that list of top public-access courses in each state among the most popular. All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time.
(m): Modern course, built in or after 1960
(c): Classic course, built before 1960
Note: If there is a number in the parenthesis with the m or c, that indicates where that course ranks among Golfweek’s Best top 200 modern or classic courses.
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1. Boothbay Harbor CC
Boothbay (T193c)
2. Cape Arundel
Kennebunkport (c)
3. Belgrade Lakes GC
Belgrade Lakes (m)
4. Ledges Golf Club
York (m)
5. Kebo Valley
Bar Harbor (c)
1. Prouts Neck
Scarborough (c)
2. Portland CC
Falmouth (c)
3. York Golf & Tennis Club
York (c)
4. Woodlands Club
Falmouth (m)
The hundreds of members of the Golfweek’s Best ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings.
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