On Golf Digest’s Most Beautiful and Best Resort list and only a ten minute drive south from the Camden Windward House Bed & Breakfast is Samoset, with views of the Camden Hills, Pen Bay and the Maine Coast, the Windward is close to some of the best golfing around. Samoset Resort, Goose River Golf Club, Rockland Golf Club and Northport Golf Club all within a short distance of the Camden Windward House. Come to Camden Maine and enjoy coastal village pleasures.
Holes: 18 Coarse Length/Par: Back: 6,548/70 Middle: 6,018/70 Front: 5,087/72
Coarse Rating /Slope: Back: 70.8/129 Middle: 69.7/125 Front:70.1/120
Head Professional Present Architect:Bob Elder
Facilities
Driving range, pro shop (full service), practice green, practice bunker, club rental, club storage, car rental, pull-cart rental, instruction, golf school, locker room, showers, restaurant, lounge.
Tee Times, Other Misc
Tee times are necessary and recommended scheduled at least 1 week in advance. There is a Ranger, and Tee-Off Intervals are at 8 minutes. Estimated Time to Play Holes: 4 1/2 hours, Earliest Tee-Off 7a.m. Season Mid-April through mid-November
Samoset Course Highlights
Pebble Beach of the East
, and characteristic of what Maine lovers love best about Maine, the rocky coastline, and nearby islands in picturesque harbors plied by Schooners and lobsterman, are the backdrop for this well regarding Course. Samoset consistently ranks near the top of Golf Digest’s Most Beautiful and Best Resort Course lists. Designed by Bob Elder in the late ‘70s and remodeled in the ‘80s by Geoffrey Cornish and most recently by Ogunquit based Brad Booth. The Booth alterations were to the signature 4th hole (arguably one of the prettiest anywhere) and 5th to convert it from an unassuming par-4 to near perfect par-3. The redesigned and well-bunkered green of the fourth now backs up to a newly built seawall and the mile-long Rockland Breakwater and lighthouse beyond. You can make par depending on your state of mind, if you either concentrate on your game and not the view or concentrate on the view and let the golf take care of itself! The 180-yard fifth plays slightly uphill to a large diagonally oriented green guarded front right by a formidable cluster of bunkers. Numbers 11, 12, and 13 offer an interesting par 3-5-3 sequence that includes water, trees and more water. All of which lead up to the 435 yard dogleg-left par 4 sixteenth, with its long narrow green and deserving of its number one handicap ranking.
Booking Tee Times
Our 18-hole oceanside golf course (6,600 yds., Par 70) is one of the most beautiful in New England, boasting seven holes bordering the ocean and ocean vistas from fourteen of the eighteen holes. Our practice facilities include a golf range, bunker and 10,000 sq.ft. putting green. Private instruction, group lessons and golf clinics and custom club fittings are offered by our PGA staff. Our modern clubhouse features a full selection of golf apparel, equipment, and accessories.
To book your tee times, call our pro shop at 207-594-1431. Appropriate golf attire is required. We are a Cart Path Only facility.
2008 Golf Course Green Fees-Cart Included.
Travel with your own rackets? Here are some tennis courts in Maine you might want to try. The Camden Maine area has 4 easily accessible public courts and 1 that is a short drive away from downtown Camden. The town of Camden has public tennis courts at the Camden Snow Bowl open from 6am – 10pm. The Camden Snow Bowl is located at 20 Barnestown Rd Camden, ME 04843.
