Foss Park Golf Course

I have played their twice this year and the course is in very good condition but the people that play there have no golf Etiquette, they play up on you. Other people cut in front of you. It’s a problem there when you can’t just enjoy your day on the course.

Always liked Foss, have been playing it for decades. Not as much recently because of price increases and lack of specials. Course was in really good shape. With a couple exceptions, greens were in great shape!

Booked a tee time for myself, the tee time was never filled up so was supposed to play by myself. Ended up getting paired with another gentleman which was fine.

I prepaid for the green fee and cart, but when I got the course, the worker told me I had to either ride with the other gentleman, pay for another cart fee on top of what I already paid, or leave.

Aside from the horrible customer service, the course was in good shape and the golf part of it was sufficient.

Course manager managed well when they ran out of carts.

The pace of play is slow the course needs more rangers that know what they doing.

People cut in front of us, people were hitting up on us when we had nowhere to go because of the slow play.

I had a 9:09 am tee time. I get there 10 minutes early. There's a couple there and I see she has a Marquette University golf bag. So I'm thinking this could be fun. Well the boyfriend didn't want me playing with them, immediately putting me in the middle between a foursome and a now twosome. So after I wait in the middle of the 1st fairway, I see this is going to be one of those hurry up and wait days. So I hit my ball, put it on the green. Then, seeing that the foursome ahead was now waiting for the foursome ahead of them (two fours in front of me and a twosome behind), I dropped a second ball and quickly hit it on the green as well.

Which the boyfriend apparently didn't like. After I got my par and waited for the groups in front of me to go, the twosome rolls up behind me and the boyfriend complains about making them wait. Which kind of upset me, seeing the Sunday morning slow train of golfers in front of me. We exchanged ideas in a calm way-really.

They caught up with me at #4. I had just hit my drive. I asked them to please go ahead because I didn't want to make them wait for the two foursomes ahead of me. Id rather wait on them. They came up with this story that they were playing with people behind them. Which to me said "why are you worrying about what's ahead if you have to pay attention to who's behind you?" The exchange also sealed the silent understanding that I could do what I want. Well, I played like crap after that, not surprisingly.

The course was in good condition. I shot a 44 on the front and didn't count the back. That was my first time there since the pandemic. I'd go back, but not during primetime.

No carts when we arrived for our 9:50AM tee time. Had a difficult time understanding what was going on because the starter didn't speak English. Finally got a cart about 45 minutes later and teed off slightly behind schedule. Cart broke down in the first fairway. Got another cart that was very slow, but got us around sufficiently. Had to wait in second fairway because the group in front of us had a cart break down. Luckily the staff drove one out to that group in fairly short order.

The course was badly in need of mowing. The tee box and fairway grass was over an inch long and the rough was so long we spent time searching for nearly every ball that didn't find the fairway. I know the course suffers from drainage issues, but it hasn't rained here in a week and there's no excuse for how long the grass was. The greens were at least mowed recently, though they were wildly inconsistent from hole to hole.

5+ hour death march of a round. At least they had a few cocktail specials at the turn, but we waited 10 minutes for someone to serve us. There were only 3 people in the bar area at the time.

There was also a $5 refundable fee for using a cart key. That's so unusual that I completely forgot to get my money back after dropping off the cart. Admittedly, that's my own mistake but come on... were they really having an issue with people stealing cart keys?

At any rate, I won't be back to Foss Park anytime soon. It's a shame because it's a fun course when run the right way.

Showed up half an hour early and was told it would be at least an hour before I could get a cart. Ridiculous. So I walked the front 9 and rode the back.