Rockport · ME

Samoset Resort Golf Course

Est. 1902 · Robert Elder (1974 eighteen-hole rebuild of a 1902 nine-hole course)
Why we love this place

We love Samoset for that rare New England feeling where the Atlantic is genuinely in play. Salt air, granite seawalls, and holes hanging over Penobscot Bay make every round feel like an occasion. It is coastal Maine golf at its most memorable, and worth the trip up.

Via Samoset Resort (Opal Collection)

Par
72
Rating
71.4
Slope
136
Length
4,5926,212 yd
Holes
18
Par 71Out 34In 37Full card ▾
Hole123456789Out
Yds3753771974621803681773483272811
Par44353434434
Hole101112131415161718In
Yds3481235152095313713784125143401
Par43535444537

About Samoset Resort Golf Course

Golf at the Samoset traces back to 1902, when a nine-hole layout was laid out on the resort grounds along Penobscot Bay; the course marked its centennial in 2002. Architect Robert Elder rebuilt it into a full eighteen-hole championship course in 1974, and later refinements followed: Jeffrey Cornish reworked several holes in the early 1990s, and Maine architect Bradley Booth redesigned holes 4, 5, 14 and 18 and added the practice area around 2000. Set on a rocky peninsula with a granite seawall separating fairways from the Atlantic, its sweeping oceanfront holes earned it the nickname the 'Pebble Beach of the East.' The layout has hosted regional events including a New England PGA Section Championship and served as a former Nike Tour qualifying site.
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