Greystone Golf Course

Completely disagree with the previous poster unless he meant the greens were challenging due to horrible conditions. The greens as this course are dreadful bumpy with large circles of grass that appears to be dying causing large bumps/craters. The layout of this course is great, the staff very friendly, clubhouse excellent as well. However the condition of the greens ruined by round of golf out there. Check the greens conditions before playing this course. Especially on weekends as the pace of play is quite maddening 5.5 hour round.

This course definitely lives up to its hype... and it''''s a steal at $50 in the afternoon, since it''''s owned by Baltimore County. If this were a privately-owned, daily-fee course (like I believe it started out as), they could easily charge $75+.

Challenging layout (especially the greens) from the architect, Joe Lee, who designed the Doral Blue Monster down in Miami and the courses at Walt Disney World. Practice facilities were great... I particularly enjoyed the separate chipping green with bunker near the driving range. You also receive 35 range balls included in the cost of the round. The golf carts are equipped with an immaculately detailed GPS system, which automatically displayed 3D-animated hole flyovers as you drove to your next tee.

Only downside to the course were a few heavily-divoted fairways and a few ball-marked greens, but this maybe because I played right after the Fourth of July weekend. Other than that, the course was in great shape.

Played in mid-March this year under windy, frigid conditions but the course was in excellent shape and I had one of my best scores. Greystone is a very good driver's course and it has five distinctive par 5s that are not terribly long or even narrow but you still need to be strategic (and not greedy) to get the most out of them. Some of the bunkering is intense not only on the par 5s. #9 is a beefy par 4 with a narrow green surrounded by deep bunkers. The signature hole might be the par 3 #3 because of the elevated tee to a sunken green or the par 5 #10 because of the double-dogleg left and then right from an elevated tee. There are acres of choices for a lay-up or the temptation to cut the second dogleg and go for the green over a small pond in two. The toughest hole is probably #7, a 365 yd par 4. Big hitters must lay-up to set-up an approach to a skinny, tilted green guarded by water. A poor lay-up will result in a tough decision on whether the green is worth going for or perhaps laying up again or baling out left. Don't let this hole beat up your scorecard. Take a bogey and move on to easier pickings.
Overall Greysone is a beautiful course. Scenery, terrain, conditions, and playability are all there. Not too many lateral trees to worry about either, except for #15.