Ocean City Golf Club - Newport Bay

Ocean City Golf Club's Newport Bay Course in Berlin is one of the Mid-Atlantic coast's most strategically-designed Golden-Age-era daily-fee rounds, a Lester George design that opened in 1958 and plays 6,657 yards to a par of 72 on bent-grass greens with rye-grass fairways. George is a prolific mid-Atlantic architect best known for renovation work at Congressional, and Newport Bay shows his signature emphasis on strategic bunkering and subtle green-complex movement rather than brute-force yardage. Newport Bay tests golfers' ability to think strategically rather than purely on distance, strategically placed bunkers, subtle contours, and the kind of angle-of-attack decision-making that rewards smart approach-shot shaping over raw power. The course features some of the most scenic views on the Mid-Atlantic coast, with Newport Bay itself providing the backdrop for several holes. Ocean City Golf Club operates two courses (Newport Bay and Seaside) as the on-property Ocean City-area daily-fee facility. For the Ocean City / Delmarva Peninsula trip visitor, Newport Bay is the strategic-architecture pick, paired naturally with Rum Pointe (Pete & PB Dye, 1997) and the sister Seaside Course for a three-round Ocean City package.