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.
Also popular are the Golfweek’s Best rankings of top private courses in each state, and that list for Maine is likewise included below.
(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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