Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth Golf Courses & Tee Times

Who runs public golf in Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth

The one town-owned course at the beach is Eagle's Landing. It has a rewards program for year-round residents of the Ocean City area with discounted green fees, and walking is allowed any time. It was Maryland's first fully certified Audubon Sanctuary. Everything else here is daily-fee golf run by private owners: GlenRiddle's two 18s in Berlin, Lighthouse Sound across the bay, Bear Trap Dunes in Ocean View. Inland, Hog Neck in Easton has an 18 and a nine-hole executive course.

Public courses worth knowing in Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth

• Eagle's Landing Golf Course: Town of Ocean City course by Michael Hurdzan, with views of Sinepuxent Bay and Assateague. It made GOLF.com's 2021 reader list of 25 underrated municipal courses, the only Maryland course on it.
• Glen Riddle Golf Club (Man O' War): The clubhouse was the main stable of Riddle Farm, which raised Man O' War, War Admiral and Seabiscuit. Two 18s share it.
• Lighthouse Sound Golf Club: Opened in 2000 on an old farm across the bay from Ocean City. The back nine runs along the St. Martin's River, and a cart bridge runs nearly 1,500 feet over the marsh.
• Bear Trap Dunes Golf Club: Rick Jacobson design on dune terrain three miles west of Bethany Beach.
• Hog Neck Golf Course: Easton course with a par-72, 7,100-yard 18 and a nine-hole executive course.

Booking tee times in Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth: the local rules

Booking rules are set course by course, and few are posted. Hog Neck in Easton lets season pass holders book 30 days out and everyone else 14, with cancellations due 24 hours ahead. Eagle's Landing books online, and its resident rewards program covers year-round locals.

Why tee times in Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth are hard to get

Golf in Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth follows the seasons: spring openers and fall weekends are the busiest stretches, and summer mornings fill before afternoons.

Most public courses open their tee sheet a set number of days ahead, often 7 to 14, and many municipal courses give residents or card holders an earlier window. The best weekend-morning times usually go the day they're released. Leagues and outings take blocks of the sheet before the public ever sees them.

When tee time cancellations happen

Booked-up doesn't mean gone. Plans change: groups cancel ahead of the course's cancellation deadline (often 24 to 48 hours out), players drop when the forecast turns, and a group that shrinks leaves an open spot. Those times quietly come back on the booking page, usually for minutes, not hours.

How to get a tee time in Delmarva Beaches — OC & Rehoboth

Doing it by hand? Here's what works.

1. Know the booking window. Find out how many days ahead each course releases times, and whether residents get an earlier window. Be ready the morning it opens.
2. Look again 24 to 48 hours out. That's when most cancellation deadlines pass and spots come back.
3. Be flexible on group size. Singles and twosomes fit into gaps a foursome can't.
4. Try twilight and weekday afternoons. They're the last to fill and often cheaper.
5. Widen the map. If your first choice is full, check the next town over. Berlin has 5 courses on Yoink and Queenstown has 2.

Read the full guide to getting a tee time when everything's booked