Baywood Greens Golf Course

Often called the "Augusta of the North," Baywood Greens features two distinct nines: the tree-lined Woodside Nine and the water-laden Waterside Nine, connected by timbered bridges and tunnels. The Ault, Clark and Associates design incorporates 27 acres of man-made ponds, over 300,000 flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees across a visually stunning Sussex County layout.

Baywood Greens opened in 1998 in Long Neck, Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula between Rehoboth Beach and Lewes. Designed by Bill Love and Brian Ault of Ault-Clark Associates, the course was developed by owner Rob Tunnell, who collaborated with Love on the original design concept before Ault contributed refinements to the finished layout. The 18-hole course plays to 6,983 yards at par 72, with bentgrass greens delivering true, consistent putting surfaces through the cooler Delaware season.

The defining visual character of Baywood Greens is its extraordinary horticultural investment. The property features 27 acres of man-made ponds connected by eight wooden bridges, and the landscape surrounding the fairways is planted with hundreds of thousands of wildflowers, shrubs, and trees that make the course as visually distinctive as any in the mid-Atlantic region. Seasonal color from wildflower plantings in shades that change with the calendar gives the course a garden-like quality unusual in competitive golf.

The ponds and water features integrated into the routing add both visual drama and strategic challenge, with water coming into play across multiple holes. Baywood Greens operates as a public facility, giving golfers across the Delaware coast and the broader Ocean City, Maryland tourist market access to a course that competes aesthetically with many private clubs. The Long Neck address, on the western shore of the Rehoboth Bay watershed, places the course within easy reach of the beach communities that drive Sussex County's summer tourism economy.

Where2Golf recognized Baywood Greens as among the top courses in the Ocean City regional market, noting the horticultural display and course conditioning as primary differentiators. The combination of a serious 6,983-yard championship layout with the visual spectacle of the wildflower and pond program has made Baywood Greens one of Delaware's most visited and most discussed public golf destinations since its opening.