Stumpy Lake Golf Course

If it has rained recently it does end up heavily impacting your play especially on the back 9

Now, let me start out by saying that I have given Stumpy Lake nothing but good reviews over the past couple years. I always give them the benefit of the doubt. This review, however, not so much.
I booked a tee time for 2 at 3:10pm last Friday. I knew it would be busy, but we wanted to get some holes in anyway. When we got to the course, we had to wait almost 30 minutes to get our cart. When we finally got to the first tee box, there were 4 groups in front of us waiting to hit. Being the patient person I am, we decided to give it a shot and thought maybe things would separate a bit in a few holes. It did not. We hit our shots to the 2nd green, looked over at #3 box, picked up our balls and headed to the back 9 to see if things were any better. There were 4 groups on the 3rd tee box and another on the green.
It's been very slow before, but not to this extreme. Long story shorter, tee times should never be booked 7 minutes apart. I believe they know this, but continue to do it for one reason or another. Something should be done about this in the near future.
Staff is always great!!

Staff super friendly a over all great day of golf!!

Stumpy Lake Golf Course exhibits stunning natural scenery, but unfortunately falls short in the quality of its greens. The inconsistency and deterioration of the turf seems to not live up to a golfers expectations. However the course potential might still attract you, but one should brace for an underwhelming service experience. The Marshalls attitude, unfortunately, didn’t mirror the environment. His approach being distant and sometimes outright rude felt like a divot in the experience.

Loved the layout, great course design. No course maintenance, the greens were half dead, and the ground was extremely hard. Wouldn't recommend it for the price.

Mediocre experience for the $. Several greens under HEAVY repair, making them almost unplayable. My group had an early tee time on a holiday weekend with gorgeous weather. I was expecting pace of play to be somewhat slow, but 5.5 hours... There was no Marshall keeping groups moving this day.
The starter was very friendly as well as the rest of the staff. I will be back again but there is definitely better bang for the buck in Virginia Beach.

I enjoyed the course but it certainly had some issues. There were large dead spots on several greens and there was a lot of unkept areas around the course. Sand traps were very wet and firm, likely due to how low of an area this is. It was a fun course to play but I can see the pace being a problem. I was in the second group out so we played quick but they were late to open the course and I saw them stacking several groups to try and catch up. Overall I enjoyed it and will be back again despite the shortcomings!

This is the first time I’ve ever played stumpy lake where I’ve had complaints. I love the course played it a dozen times, but the tee boxes was like concrete and the bunkers were solid as a rock too. Other than that the course is awesome.

Greens fees are higher than they have ever been and the course conditions are the worst they have ever been. Tee boxes are covered in crab grass or dead pan and even when you do find a spot to stand level, you need a hammer to get a tee into the ground. If there is any compliments to be made about the course, the fairways are in decent shape, the course layout is challenging and the scenery and wildlife give you the feeling of being on a secluded golf course. But then there are the greens. Not sure what happened here but nearly every green is severely damaged. There are numerous unplayable sections of the greens on practically every hole. Despite the greens being in such terrible condition, it’s even more disappointing that when you do get to the portion of the green that should be playable, the divots of previous players take even more away from what could be a great course. It’s like the players are starting to give up on the course. This place has so much potential and it needs a lot of help. If the Marshal paid more attention to the players not fixing their hacks and divots and spent less time harassing players trying to speed up pace of play by riding through the acorn covered wooded area “in my tree line”, players might take better care of the course for you. For most of the course, the tree line and the lake views are the best parts of the course. I’ve never been more disappointed by a course or it’s conditions as I was for Stumpy Lake, and I have never been disappointed to the degree to want to write such a review, but when you are charged 100% of a greens fee and given 50% of a golf course, it kind of writes itself. Just curious where’s the money is going.

Tried to repair the greens but it didn’t take. Second cut was too high. Old course needs some TLC

Booked a 7:56 tee time and got to the tee box ready to tee off at 7:50. The only problem was that there were 4 groups ahead of us with earlier tee times, so we didn’t actually tee off until 8:30. The only complaints on the course are that the greens were bumpy and not kept up and you basically needed a hammer to push your tees into the ground.

Course was in pretty good condition, staff was friendly and the pace of play was excellent.