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THE CROWD The Glenwood, Md. club’s property and golf course offer a welcome escape from the busy Baltimore and Washington, D.C. corridors, and a new clubhouse is now enticing members to come for more frequent and extended stays. By Joe Barks
GLENWOOD, MARYLAND is an unincorporated community of about 3,500 people in western Howard County that sits roughly 30 miles from both Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. When a group of golf enthusiasts found in the early 1990s that they wished they had a place where they could more easily pursue and enjoy their passion without having to fight the crowds and traffic they encountered when playing at clubs closer to both of those cities’ metropolitan areas, they got together to acquire some farmland in Glenwood and create Cattail Creek Country Club. With a course designed by Willard Byrd on surprisingly rugged and diverse terrain, the club stayed under the radar for its first 10 or so years of existence, as a fairly exclusive and purposely understated golf-centric property that offered the attraction of playing challenging rounds in a peaceful environment. That distance and separation from the more active worlds—and clubs—that surrounded 14
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