Included in Your Online Relocation Package for Anne Arundel County, Maryland - Home of Fort George G. Meade, NSA, Northrop Grumman, BWI, and the U.S. Naval Academy.

First a little golf trivia... 

As a golfer, I'm sure you're familiar with the customary RED TEES for women, WHITE TEES for men, and BLUE TEES for Championship play.  This system was actually the brainchild of Frank Emmet, Director of the District of Columbia Golf Association's junior activities in the 1920's and a member of the USGA Junior Championship Committee.  But Frank Emmet's legacy reached beyond this to many generations of golfers in this area with his mantra On the links, and off the streets*.  My entire family still benefits today from this philosophy and his passion for encouraging children to learn the game of golf.

My brothers and I participated in the Emmet-founded Junior Golfers of Washington when we were adolescents and teens.  My own children did, too, competing against other kids from the greater Washington area at some of Maryland's top golf courses such as Congressional, Columbia, Manor, Argyle, Kenwood, Bethesda and Woodmont Country Clubs, as well as courses in Northern Virginia.  What great opportunities we enjoyed, thanks to the legacy of this one man.  (And, when my husband and I watch golf on TV, we can honestly claim our boys held their own, competing as teenagers against some of today's greats - Tiger Woods, Phil Michelson, Lee Jansen, Rocco Mediate and others.)

While Frank Emmet pioneered organized junior golf in this area (and the nation), thousands of other volunteers have insured the continued popularity of junior golf since then.  Today's kids are still On the links, and off the streets* at neighborhood golf courses in Anne Arundel County, literally walking out the back doors of their homes to play at Bay Hills in Arnold, Crofton Country Club and Walden Golf Course, both in Crofton, and Chartwell Golf & Country Club in Severna Park. 

If you're a golfer or golfer wanna be, relocating to Anne Arundel County to work at Fort Meade, NSA, Northrop Grumman, BWI, or the U.S. Naval Academy, you will have many options.  Whether you play for recreation or competition, you will want to check out the courses on this list.  I recommend you call or visit the clubs for more information and make arrangements to play a round at each before choosing one to join.  

• Annapolis Golf Club
  2638 Carrollton Rd
  Annapolis, MD 21401
• Applewood Course at Courses at Fort Meade, The
  6800 Taylor Ave
  Fort Meade, MD 20755
• Bay Hills Golf Club
  545 Bay Hills Dr
  Arnold, MD 21012
• Chartwell Golf & Country Club
  1 Chartwell Dr
  Severna Park, MD 21146
• Compass Pointe Golf Courses
  9010 Ft Smallwood Rd
  Pasadena, MD 21122
• Crofton Country Club
  1691 Crofton Pkwy
  Crofton, MD 21114
• Eisenhower Golf Course
  1576 Generals Highway
  Crownsville, MD 21032
• Heritage Harbour Golf Club
  875 Harry S Truman Pkwy
  Annapolis, MD 21401
• Old South Country Club
  699 Marlboro Rd
  Lothian, MD 20711
• Parks Course at Fort Meade
  6800 Taylor Ave
  Fort Meade, MD 20755
• Renditions Golf Grand Slam Experience
  1380 W Central Ave
  Davidsonville, MD 21035
• Sherwood Forest Golf Course
  134 Sherwood Forest Rd
  Sherwood Forest, MD 21405
• South River Golf Links
  3451 Soloman\'s Island Rd
  Edgewater, MD 21037
• United States Naval Academy Golf Club
  64 Greenbury Point Rd
  Annapolis, MD 21402
• Walden Golf Club
  1500 Riedel Rd
  Crofton, MD 21114

Of course, this list doesn't include the many other courses within a half hour of Anne Arundel County - in Howard, Baltimore, Prince George's and Queen Anne Counties.  For an aerial view of Maryland golf course, check out www.GolfFlyover.com.  To check out homes in golf course communties, contact me at your convenience.

If golf is important in your life, I recommend you start your home search in Crofton, where my children learned to play and where there are two fine courses.  It's a great place to live - and living in a golf course community will encourage your own kids to be On the links, and off the streets*.  Who knows, if they get an early start with the game, I might be watching the Masters on TV someday and saying about one of the players, "I helped his parents find a home when they relocated to Anne Arundel County."

If you enjoyed reading this, you might like Crofton Real Estate - Tee it Up and another article about Golf at Andrews Air Force Base, in nearby Prince George's County.

(Note: Golf is the Woda family sport. L to R: my husband Larry, daughter Susan, and son Steve at the University of Maryland driving range.  I took a break to shoot this photo.)

*  I've been unable to find verification that those are Frank Emmet's exact words, but this is something I heard credited to him when I was growing up and again at various awards banquets we attended when our children competed in local junior tournaments.  If those were not Frank's "exact" words, it was his general philosophy.