Timberlin Golf Club

An absolutely great day on the golf course today !!!
I met up with another dongle golfer and we had a great time.
The course was in tournament shape !!!

It was greens keeper revenge day. Brutal pin placements. All 18 pins tucked a few feet from the edge. Was my first time playing the course and I look forward to going back on a normal day. Pace was a little slow. Condition of fairways and greens was very good and I did like the layout.

As far a public courses courses go and for the value, you can’t beat Timberlin. It’s well-maintained and just challenging enough for the average golfer that you’ll enjoy your round and not want to snap your clubs in half by the end. I was particularly impressed with the condition of the course given how hot and dry it has been over the last month. The clubhouse and carts left a little something to be desired, but I wasn’t there to hang by the bar so it didn’t matter and I’m not going to knock a course for their carts unless they are really terrible. Overall, it’s a nice course, I enjoyed my round, and definitely felt that it was worth it for the price I paid!

Bunkers could use a little work on some holes. Greens were nice and running fast. Fairways also decent for the lack of water we have experienced. Nice day on the course with a good father/son team. Pace was very good on front 9 but slowed a bit after.

The course was actually a lot of fun, in good condition thruout. The greens were some of the best around. Golfers please fix your ballmarks and 2 others! Pace was really slow for a wednesday 1130 tee time.
Aside from the usual muni-blues about ballmarks, the greens were healthy and, well, green . Cut very close, they were very fast but ultra smooth. The course could really use a little investment in pavememt work in some places.

All in all, l liked the course and think you will too.

Timberlin is a good, fun course for the average golfer. It appears easy, and maybe for very good golfers it is, but for folks like me, there are plenty of challenges, yet on an overall fairly forgiving course. They have cleaned up the course in the past few years to speed up play and accommodate less skilled golfers - e.g., where there used to be significant underbrush for balls to get lost in, most of that has been cleared out; now, if you hit towards a pine tree, at least the bottom branches have been cut back so you can find your ball easily without taking hours to look for it. And a number of trees between fairways have also come down, though perhaps more for safety/maintenance to remove diseased trees than to make the course easier. Fairways are reasonably wide, but if you do go astray into the woods, you'll probably have to take a drop if you can find your ball. On the back 9, there are several water hazards - manageable with careful play, but if not they'll swallow your Srixon. And the course is generally in good condition, despite a very hot and dry summer.

There are a number of small maintenance items that could use some attention, though most are not significant enough for me to give the course a low ranking. Some areas at the beginning of several fairways, especially near the ends of the cart paths, are pretty bare, and hardpacked, as are some of areas of the rough, but the fairways and greens are good, though Timberlin seems to attract a lot of golfers who don't bother replacing any divots. Tee boxes are OK with the exception of a few that have recently been built or rebuilt; almost all of these feel like asphalt was laid under the turf - it's that hard to get your tee into the ground.
One item that I think is a bit more important is the lack of distance markers on many holes. On some the traditional sprinkler-head markings are frequent and visible, but on a number of holes they are few and far between. There used to be red, white, and blue stakes, about 4 feet tall at the 100, 150, and 200 yard markers, but no more. On one or two holes there was at least a small (maybe 2 feet) white 150 marker, and even on one of those holes, that marker got destroyed by a mower and wasn't replaced for some time. Many courses use the in-ground round plastic red, white, and blue markers and you'll find those on some Timberlin holes, though sometimes partially concealed by the turf. (On at least one hole that I can recall, the red 100 yd disk is puzzlingly labeled 150 - go figure.) Some courses post those standard distance markers on trees along the course, but we don't have those either. With so many people now sporting hand-held personal range finders, maybe the folks at Timberlin think it's not worth the investment to install, or to improve on, markers on the course, and maybe this is not a big deal for other golfers, but I'd like to see better distance marking.
Again, my overall view of Timberlin is that it's a fun course that I enjoy playing, one I'd certainly recommend, and will look forward to the next time I'm out.

Love the course great price for a great public golf course. It's a fun course I would highly recommend playing Timberlin you will not be disappointed.

I always enjoy playing Timberlin. The course is always in very good condition and every hole is unique. Nothing cookie-cutter here. It provides the right amount of challenge for an average golfer. But the pace of play is brutal.
The staff are always super courteous, respectful and friendly. All of the players that I get paired up with have been wonderful folks to get to know. Young or old, everyone is friendly.