Southern Anne Arundel County occupies a particular pocket of Maryland that doesn't announce itself loudly — farmland giving way to tidal creeks, the Patuxent River not far off, and a landscape that sits somewhere between the Chesapeake Bay's humid flatlands and the rolling Piedmont to the north. Golf in this part of the state tends to reflect that quieter character: unpretentious, community-rooted, and often more interesting than its surroundings let on.
The Cannon Club's par-71 layout signals a design that plays with routing in some deliberate way — that missing par suggests either a pair of par-3s where you might expect a par-4, or a course that asks something specific of players rather than delivering a standard template. That kind of layout rewards local knowledge and punishes complacency.
Lothian itself sits at a crossroads between Annapolis's well-heeled golf corridor and the more working-class clubs scattered through Prince George's County to the west. The Cannon Club reads as the kind of place regulars return to not for prestige, but because they know it suits them.
