Golf in Westminster

Westminster is the seat of Carroll County—the county's commercial, governmental, and educational hub. McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College) has anchored the city's academic identity since 1866, and the county courthouse and historic downtown reflect Carroll County's prosperous agricultural heritage. Westminster National Golf Course and McDaniel College Golf Course both serve the Westminster recreational golf market in a community that has grown substantially while maintaining its county-seat character. Carroll County's strong German-American farming traditions, combined with the proximity of horse operations and preserved agricultural land, give Westminster's surrounding countryside a pastoral quality that most Maryland county seats have long since lost to suburban development.