Pine Ridge Golf Course, Lutherville

Golf Course

Golf Courses-Public

Executives of Pine Ridge Golf Course:
Manager, Jim Deck

Business classifications
SIC (US 1987) :

In 1984, at the request of Baltimore City Mayor William Donald Schaefer, a committee of Baltimore business and civic leaders was formed and tasked with studying the operations of Baltimore City’s five municipal golf courses and recommending changes to improve the financial self-sufficiency of the City’s golf courses. For many years prior to 1984, the City of Baltimore’s Department of Recreation and Parks was forced to financially subsidize the operations at its golf course properties. At that time, the golf courses were managed by the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks and were operating at a deficit of over $400, 000 per year during the last few years. The committee, led by Bernard Trueschler, then-Chairman of the Board for Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, recommended that a 501(C)(3) non-profit entity be formed, with a volunteer Board of Directors composed of community members, to manage and operate the golf courses.
Since 1985, the Baltimore Municipal Golf Corporation (BMGC) has successfully managed, operated and developed Baltimore’s Classic Five Golf courses: Mount Pleasant, Pine Ridge, Clifton Park, Forest Park and Carroll Park.
BMGC was founded to turn around the City’s public golf courses that were losing money and in disrepair under the leadership of the Department of Recreation and Parks. Over the years, BMGC - a first-of-its-kind, private, 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation - established a model that made it possible for the company to, among other things:
Golf course operators