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Find out how you can "play more and pay less" at Baltimore County's five beautiful golf courses.

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Ellen kobler: welcome to hello! baltimore county., I'm your host, ellen kobler..

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We took a very nice field trip to highlight baltimore county's.

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Five public golf courses that offer picturesque scenery,.

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Restaurants and bars, and professional training.

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Let's take a look. (, ♪♪♪ ).

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We are here on a gorgeous morning at the rocky point. Golf course.

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With pga head pro jeff bell., thank you so much for bringing us out here. Today.

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good morning,, ellen! welcome! got a beautiful day!.

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Yeah!, so not only is the golf course supremely beautiful,.

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But your motto is: "play more, pay less." tell us about that.

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Our memberships are of a great value.

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We have several different types of memberships, which we'll talk about later.. They also include, what's called our loyalty points, program.

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So, with an advantage card,, you save $7 every time you play.

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And while you play, the more you play,, you earn loyalty, points.

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So those loyalty points are redeemed for cash back.

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At the end of the month.

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Sounds like a pretty good deal. now these are municipal courses,, which means they're open to all they're, not private, membership.

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They are. they're public facilities that we keep in phenomenal shape.

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Some of the best public golf courses in the area.

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Ellen: indeed. and tell us about the courses.

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there's five courses that baltimore county owns and operates.

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There's five golf courses,, one being obviously here at rocky point,.

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Greystone, woodlands, diamond ridge, and our facility over at fox hollow.

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Ellen: very nice. and tell us a little bit more about the memberships.

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The memberships, we have a large range of different memberships.

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To really invite anyone and everyone., we start with our four-star membership,, which is inclusive of all five golf courses,.

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Greens, fees, cart, fees, are included with both of those.

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Really a great value., our greystone golf course has their own membership. There.

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Exclusive to that particular club., we have advantage cards,, we have junior memberships,.

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We have several different memberships that really accommodate any type of golfer.

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And the amount of play that they want to play.

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So down here at rocky point we have these amazing water. Views.

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tell us about greystone., that's also a very beautiful course.

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Greystone is a gem in northern baltimore county.

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And it has some of the just best golf holes in the area.

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It's always ranked in the top ten in the golf courses in maryland.

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Ellen: nice! phenomenal views, great golf holes, playable for everyone.

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From a scratch player up to a 36 handicap,.

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And some phenomenal views in baltimore county.

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Ellen: it's up there in northern baltimore county,, which is just beautiful.

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inquiring. Minds want to know,. Occasionally some people when they're out golfing might want an alcoholic beverage..

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Do you provide them?, we do. all four of our facilities have a beverage license. Now.

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We do offer alcohol during the round, before the round,.

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During the round, or after the round., and also for any of our events or charity events that we host.

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Or corporate outings.

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Ellen: very nice. and all of the courses are beautiful,, but this hole in particular just takes my breath. Away..

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Can you tell us about where we are standing?.

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Jeff: we are currently standing on the 11th tee box here at rocky point,.

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Our signature golf hole and it is pretty as it gets.

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A lot of people compare it as the pebble beach of the east.

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It is a phenomenal location with one of the prettiest golf holes in the state.

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So tell us about some of the charity outings that you all host.

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A big part of our portfolio is charity, events,, outings;.

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We do host quite a few at all of our golf courses.

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Our golf professionals can run an event from 60 players all the way up to 288.

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I mean, we're all well trained and well versed in how we do the events.

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And everyone loves having an event at one of our facilities and they keep coming back. once we have an event,, they seem to keep returning.

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very nice. and, as a golf pro, one of the elements that you do offer is lessons and classes.

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What do you say we take a walk over to the putting green?.

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You can maybe help me improve my game, a little.

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perfect!. Let's do that. all right.

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All right. this is a very nice putting green. beautiful.

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Most of our facilities or all of facilities have tremendous practice. Areas,.

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Chipping, putting, driving range areas that a golfer can get warmed up. In.

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Nice! tell us about the instructional programs that you offer.

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With our instruction programs,, we have what's called "get golf ready,", a pga program..

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We have a lot of junior programs to help the junior golfer get involved.

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We have a lot of individual lessons, private lessons, group, lessons, clinics.

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So we cover everything from beginner to the real good, better player.

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Ellen: okay,, and how do the costs come out for that?? Is it expensive?.

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Jeff: you know,, we take care of the juniors and we're relatively.

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The value is tremendous, based on the amount of instruction that you get.

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Some of the best prices in the area as far as instruction.

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ellen: very nice.- and you mentioned the driving ranges.

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Fox hollow in timonium is, I understand.

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One, the top 50 ranked driving ranges in the country.

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jeff: it is. ellen:, wow!.

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Jeff: top 50 and I would probably say, top 10 because it's a phenomenal facility.

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Really nice facility., there's 60, hitting stations, 20 of them are covered..

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There's two chipping greens,, there's putting greens..

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You can work on every aspect of the game and they do a great job over there.

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Ellen: all right. speaking of which,, sometimes I'll, get on the green.

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And then I take,, I don't know, four or five putts to get it in.

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Can you help me? and so what we like to do? There's many putting strokes.

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What I suggest is the straight back straight through.

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As we talked about a little bit., it helps keep the putter on line.

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We've made the alignment for the ball to the hole so straight back straight through.

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Ball's just a little forward in your stance and it's really a nice tip.

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Like this? stance, okay? yeah, that looks good. there, you go.

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straight back straight through to the hole. all right, and then just kind of like a pendulum, right? ellen: ah!, not quite enough. jeff:, that's okay., pretty good putt.

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There's a two putt for you.

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Yeah,, that's what we hope. ( laughing ).

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Yes! perfect! all right., you mentioned juniors and beginners..

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Are your courses a good place for people to start?

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jeff: absolutely.? We offer, again,, clinics, junior clinics,.

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We offer private lessons and they can practice for free.

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Buckets of balls range from an early junior price of $2.50 up to.

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We do offer range programs, range carts., so all the facilities, have, again,, very nice practice areas.

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Chipping, putting, driving range., so it's inclusive.

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They can work on every aspect of the game., so people can go to baltimoregolfing.com.

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Absolutely. all right, and tell us about a promotion. This fall that you're involved in called folds of honor that involves veterans.

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folds of honor is a program that was started many years ago.

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And it's a program that we participate each year in.

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And it's a scholarship foundation that one of our pta professionals.

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Who was a veteran and he started the program,.

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Has done very, very well with it.

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we've raised money for scholarships for the veteran families and it's done very, very well., we're very well received.

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All right. well! Thank you so much for your time on this beautiful day.

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Absolutely. and thank you for watching and remember, go to baltimoregolfing.com.

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And stay with us, we'll be back with more of hello! baltimore county.

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You can watch us on all of our social media platforms.

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Thanks! thank you.

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