Hog Neck in Easton exists because Nettie Marie Jones, widow of Cities Service chief W. Alton Jones, believed Talbot County's young people should have a chance at the game. Around 1974 her family gave the county Hog Neck Farm and paid for the course's design and construction, then turned it over to the county park board; it opened in July 1976. Golf Digest long ranked it among America's top 50 public courses, and a nine-hole executive course by Lindsay Ervin sits alongside the 18.