Maryland Sees Resurgence In Popularity Of Golf

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ESSEX, Md. (WJZ) — For a while, play had fallen flat, but Maryland is present seeing a resurgence successful the sport.

As it happens, Maryland is simply a beauteous unsocial spot to instrumentality up golfing.

“It’s a crippled that tin beryllium enjoyed careless of your accomplishment level. You don’t person to beryllium a pro to travel play golf,” said Dennis Raver, who owns Carroll County’s River Downs Golf Course with his wife, Trish. “You tin spell to Deep Creek oregon Ocean City. You tin play successful the mountains. You tin play astatine the ocean, and Maryland is unsocial successful that we bash get each 4 seasons.”

In conscionable the past year, play has made a comeback.

Baltimore was successful the nationalist spotlight arsenic big to the BMW Championship, which drew immoderate of the world’s champion players.

And it’s besides proven to beryllium a family-friendly, COVID-safe activity.

“There are astir 160 play courses successful the authorities of Maryland, and lone astir 40 of them are backstage and the remainder are for nationalist play,” said Cindy Miller with the Maryland Office of Tourism.

Some courses are reporting a 10-fold summation successful play.

“We’ve heard rejuvenation, reboot, you sanction it,” said Joe Rahnis, manager of play operations for Baltimore County Golf.

Golf courses were immoderate of the archetypal businesses to reopen during the pandemic.

Both inferior and retired golfers person returned to the athletics astatine the Rocky Point Golf Course, Rahnis said. Others person tried it for the archetypal time.

“Golf went level for a portion and, I deliberation arsenic atrocious arsenic the pandemic was for play itself, it truly got radical reasoning astir doing thing they ne'er thought astir doing before,” Rahnis said.

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