Golf in Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground is a major U.S. Army installation occupying a substantial peninsula on the upper Chesapeake Bay in Harford County. Established in 1917 as the Army's primary artillery and munitions testing facility, APG has evolved into a major center for Army research, testing, and evaluation. The installation's golf facilities—Ruggles and Exton courses—serve the military community within a base that encompasses thousands of acres of waterfront land. The surrounding Chesapeake Bay geography, with its waterfowl-rich marshes and wide tidal creeks, frames a distinctly Maryland landscape. Harford County's position at the upper Bay's western shore gives the installation an extraordinary natural setting—the Susquehanna Flats visible from higher ground, waterfowl migrating overhead each autumn, and the Bay's tidal rhythms shaping even the indoor work of military science.