Samoset

A golf course has been in play at Samoset Resort ever since 1902 when a 9-hole course was established on a rocky headland overlooking Penobscot Bay. Expanded to an 18-hole layout in the early 1970s, the course was modified a couple of decades later by Geoff Cornish.

Water comes into play on five occasions during a round here, though not, as you might expect, at any of the seven Oceanside holes. Instead, ponds of various sizes and shapes at holes 1, 10, 11, 13 and 18 form the inland aquatic hazards that golfers have to avoid.

Local architect Brad Booth was tasked with implementing further improvements in 2000, when he rebuilt holes 4, 5, 14 and 18, and this renovation has added more bite to the challenge and strengthened Samoset’s reputation as a testing championship course.