Jones at Lyman Orchards Golf Club

Staff is friendly
Course is well maintained
Challenging pin placements
Rough is forgiving
Fairways are cut low.
Layout is solid.
Can use all your clubs
Need more bathrooms
They’re out of ball markets… so unless you want to buy a poker chip don’t forget yours

Pace of play on weekend is painfully slow. People playing the wrong tee boxes will hold you up and digging in OB will hold you up.

Over all it’s a good course. Coming from San Diego, I feel that it’s a little over priced for the value. But when you can play Torrey Pines for $40 -$60 everything else is going to be underwhelming.

Looks like it would be a great place for a wedding. They had a big tent up by the driving range... That looked pretty great.

But I wouldn’t drive more than an hour nor would I spend more than $60 to play it.

Interested in trying the Player course.

It's a well maintained golf course that has a little bit of everything..but it's a uneventful design that doesn't really wow you. I had ok fun playing it and it was cheap and cheerful like I was looking for... will probably play again.

Nuanced, with multiple elevations and slopes, split level greens, interactive par 4's and par 5's, the Jones course offers a variety of looks for the scratch golfer and a tantalizing view for the novice.

Highly recommend Lyman’s golf course and enjoyed the jones course at Lyman’s orchard and enjoyed my golfing experience and the amazing food at there restaurant. Definitely would go back.

Played this course since it was built and never saw it in worse condition. I know the greens were aerated fairly recently, but the dandelions clover and iratic mowing were surprising. I ll go back, but not for a while. Get it together people!

Lyman never disappoints. For November, the course was in fantastic shape. The greens were very fast and challenging, not expected for this time of the year. Just a beautiful layout. Bunkers were fantastic shape. I was impressed. Will definitely be back.

Back Nine Review: Although over fifty years old, the Lyman-Jones course still feels modern, with its spacious and even sprawling greens having carefully modulated mounds and side-slopes, large-scale and sometimes severe bunkers, and several holes that favor heroic play as one option.

Unlike the rolling front side, the back is flat, save for the tall hill on which it begins at tee ten--and ends at green eighteen. But architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr. pulls off an excellent inward half here in nearly every respect. There are plenty of water hazards to go with the sand, and nearly every green is raised, significanltly enough, above its fairway. Your short game will get quite a workout if you’re missing them in regulation. Since one of Jones’ crusades was to devise holes that made for “hard pars," ( though “easy bogeys”), any missed shot on the way to the hole will generally mean trouble: It is then that par will become a not-very-likely prospect; scrambling and recovery is not all that straightfoward on the Jones. I’m not suggesting that this course can’t be beat; it’s just that you’ll have to earn it with consistently good shots, and it will likely take every club in the bag.

Beyond that, there are no real ‘breather holes’ on the back, no simple drive-and-pitch pushovers (unless you drive the ball 280-plus yards, and straight, with regularity). All five par-4’s are demanding to different degrees. Neither par-3 is routine, and both of their greens are well defended, with the 11th being the more dangerous if you hit a weak tee shot. Both par-5’s are hazard-lined, and you’ll need a high quality third shot to hit and hold each green.

One hole stands out just a bit from the others, in my mind: the fifteenth. This is a long 4-par that bends smoothly around a lengthy pond on its right flank, making the drive especially awkward for slicers. A push can be equally damaging. Even more than the drive, the approach must be laser-accurate into the raised green complex, well defended by bunkers to the left and rear.

Conditions were good today, if not up to the level maintained in July. Still, they were very good for November. There were too many leaves on a few of the holes and around some of the greens, but they rolled smoothly and the fairways were fully playable.

Some conclusions: This is a superior track, one of Connecticut’s best, and a course that leaves nothing to be desired: it’s playable, looks great, typically in outstanding condition, and keeps you on your toes. Jones’ hard par/easy bogey mission is fulfilled abundantly at Lyman. Plunging blindly--without a strategy--into any of these holes, whether on the outward or inward half, is certainly foolhardy. Smart golf, instead, will prevail, if you have the forethought and patience to play these holes one careful shot at a time. Having played the Jones Course many, many times, experience has borne this out for me. But some of my best golfing memories, several of them unforgettable, happened here.

Tee management was spot on, the starter was on his game. We were not hurried at all. Course conditions were perfect, weather was humid as usual this time of year. Pace of play average...finished just over 4 hours. Do not mind driving a little longer for this course, whether I play Jones or Player course I know conditions will be great,

Played in 3 + 1/2:hours, great layout + diversity of holes. Greens very very slow + hard many shots hit to front of greens went over despite that excellent course, great value

My favorite course in Ct classic layout front and back unique trees water , but one can score if you can keep the ball in play.

You couldn't have anything better than warm weather in the low 80's mostly cloudy and calm winds. The course from tee to green were in great condition.