Champions Golf Course

Played at Champions a half dozen or so times. First time playing since the new clubhouse was built - so it’s been awhile. Course was in great shape. Carts were on the path or in the rough only today. No driving in or through the fairways. Sand bunkers were raked and full or sand. Could take a nice divot in the fairways. Greens were in good shape and rolled true. Trees along the fairways add a lot of challenge.
Staff was not super friendly. I will say, they are a bit pretentious. When I got there, the person in the clubhouse told me that I was paired with two other golfers and told me I could not go as a single. I was also told that I had to go get my clubs and bring them to the carts as there were to be no carts in the parking lot. (Though I passed two carts unloading/loading from their cars as I drove in). I was then told to wait until the other twosome showed up. I waited for 10 minutes before going back inside and I was told that I could go to the starter who would pair me up. Turned out the starter was very nice and didn't care. He told me I could pair up or go out own my own. After the round was over, I wasn’t sure where to go to return the cart. I was then stopped by the same person from the clubhouse earlier, who again sternly told me that there were no carts in the parking lot. I asked where to return the cart and the person said "oh" and pointed to a spot (that required driving the cart through the parking lot). Would play here again - but just FYI about the staff.

Course was in very good shape. I had a 7:30AM tee time that I booked as a single player, and apparently the group I was supposed to play with never showed.

I ended up playing 18 holes in 2 1/2 hours. Played through 2 groups, everyone was very courteous and aware of golf etiquette.

The grounds crew were hard at work and very courteous, but always paused what they were doing as I played up to them. They were also very helpful on several occasions during my visit.

Already have a tee time for the this upcoming week and will play here much more in the future.

Champions used to be one of my favorite golf course in the area especially since I had annual city pass that allowed me to play all the city golf courses. It has seen its up and down days. This was my first time playing since last year since it closed until sometime in June of this year. One thing about this course is that water do not drain well so try to avoid playing it after rain. Due to recent heavy rain from day before, course was extremely wet and my tee shot would plug pretty much on every hole. Some of the tee boxes were in poor shape. Not sure what's going on but tee boxes are really beat up on some holes. Fairways were great, rough had some areas that were bare, and greens were excellent. New club house makes the course feel more modern. I always enjoy my round here and today was no exception. Their prices are little higher but course is also little more exciting compared to other city courses. I just hope they fix the minor issues now so that the course will be in tip top shape going forward. Lastly, they had a young kid as starter. I guess he felt like he wanted to be in charge because he tried to point out some dumb rules that didn't exist or made no sense. He told one of our guy that he needed to go buy range ball to chip and putt since he is not allowed to use your own golf ball. Huh? This was right before we were about to tee off. He also came by and warned me to stay on the cart path when all I did was park about 3 fee off the cart path on a high area under a tree to get some shade. That area has little to no grass and mostly tree roots and high area so ground was not wet. I was no where near the fairways or the rough. I didn't want to make big deal out of it so I just said ok and moved on but I'm sure many others might have taken more offense to that. Kids needs some more training and don't become a rule stickler. LOL

The course was recently reopened and was very busy the day I played. I knew it would be slow sandwiched between 2 foursomes (I was playing solo) and it was. At the turn I ended up behind a slow 3 some that didn't invite me to join, or play through, even though it was appropriate. The ranger came by and didn't help out either so I ended up stuck behind them until I just played through uninvited.. I was surprised the ranger wasn't more assertive. At any rate, the course is an excellent challenge and the only condition complaint was that the tee boxes are really in bad shape as no sand seems to be available to fill divots....probably a COVID thing.

I had a free day coming up and a promo code And a reasonable tee time and $ was offered by golfnow, so I jumped on it. Glad I did. Paired with a fellow single who played as fast as I and was relatively knowledgeable about the course. Champions is in excellent condition with the exception of #4 tee box. The work the course staff have done is very evident. The traps are even in great shape. I highly recommend this course, even though a city course, over most in the City, especially City of Columbus courses and most of them are in very good shape.

Great course,but extremely hard for my skill set. Also it was really expensive and did not have pin placement

Didn’t honor the golf now deal, the guy seemed insulted that I didn’t go through his website, charged me full price since I booked it through Golfnow even though his rate was lower

I booked it with carts, it was the only reason I picked it, when I arrived although they had carts they would not let us use the carts, charged me the same rate as with carts, I’ll never go back

I absolutely love this course. The parking lot is re-done and the new clubhouse looks amazing. The layout is amazing. There were a few things that were upsetting. The locations of the pins made it feel like magic mountain putt-putting. No matter where you putted from, if you missed, it would role another 15 feet. On hole number 2 which is a par 3, there was a pine tree blocking the ball flight path from where the blue and black tees were which made it frustrating. I would either move the tees or trim the trees!

Haven't played this course in probably 10+ years but boy did it bring back some great memories. The brand new clubhouse wasn't open yet but it looked great. They weren't selling any food/beverages because of Covid but provided us with free bottles of water. Other than that the course was in good shape because they recently just opened back up only a few weeks ago. Definitely my favorite layout for a public course in Columbus. I forgot how challenging of a course it was! A must play if you haven't yet!

The course is finally open after a new clubhouse was built. The building wasn't open the day I was there (still using the old facility) but I can tell it will be a very nice clubhouse. No Food and Beverage at all due to CV-19, I wish there was a way that all courses could put some water out somewhere for those of us who keep forgetting to bring water to the course. Otherwise, I love the layout of Champions and am glad it's open again. Best Muni layout in Columbus.

If I could give these guys a zero I would. Booked my tee time 3 days in advance and they double booked me. Found out when I got to the course and they wouldn’t even give me a bucket of balls on the driving range to make up for it.

The guy in your pro shop should find another job. The coarse was under care on every hole I played. The ground keeper actually cut across the fairway during my shot with the mower blade down. It is a very nicely structured coarse and has potential but for the staff to be this inconsiderate on a Tuesday morning when they are slow I can’t imagine what it would be like during an outing. I was scouting this place for my company outing and unfortunately we will have to go somewhere else.