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Value
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4.3
Friendliness
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Pace
3.6
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About

Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Par 72
Length 6501 yards
Slope 129
Rating 71.2

Course Details

Year Built 1995
Golf Season Year round

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper attire is required. No blue denim, T-shirts or cut off clothing.

Food & Beverage

Snacks

Available Facilities

Clubhouse

Accolades

  • Golf Advisor: Top Courses in Maryland (2019 #10)

Reviews

3.7
68 Reviews (68)

What Golfers Are Saying

Course Challenges Include:
Elevation Changes 8
Bunkers 7
Forced Carries 6
This course/club is great for:
Locals 8
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 8
In the 'Burbs 7

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Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great deal

Course is in great condition and the price is excellent too. I would to play this course again at this deal.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

Great Muni Play

Got a hot deal here for $16 with a cart, which is a great deal to begin with. Never had played here before but it makes a great first impression. Relatively easy course with some holes that will challenge the best of golfers. Open fairways and playable rough make it fun to shoot and a nice mix of short and longer length holes from the whites. Shoot my second ever round in the 70's here so I definently will be back!!

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course was acceptable. Worth the fees.

Played a few days after aeration which caused issues on the greens. But, that was expected. Club staff discounted the fee due to the aeration. Good of them.

Found the T boxes in poor shape as they were sloped and left a uneven standing area.

Fairways needed a bit moe water and the sand traps were different from trap to trap. Some had more sand then others. Hard to judge how far to hit from or close to the ball.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Conditions

The Course was in great condition and played very quickly.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great course for the money.

Booking this course online was a no brainer! The course condition was good. The pace of play slowed just a bit at times, but, then our foursome tends to play rather fast.
We will look on golf now for this course, again!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Just ok

Played from tips only 6600, greens and fairways inconsistent, and if your course isn't in great shape right now like 90% of courses in this area your in wrong business. Price was good but for a few dollars more play clustered spires or northwest .

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Fairways are being renovated

Rattlewood offers good variety with their course layout. There are three holes that bring water into play. Some of the bunkers are well sanded but a few need some attention. They are currently changing over to (I believe) burmuda grass on the fairways and there are presently four fairways that can not be ridden on with a golf cart besides the par threes. It is definitely a course to return to with its "Country Charm" and a get away from it all feel.

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Muni

They are in the process of replacing fairways 1,5,10 & 15 with Bermuda grass. They have already done this on a couple of holes like 18 and it is very nice. Will be an even greater course when they are finished.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

New bermuda grass is fantastic

I would play there anytime. Complimentary small bucket of range balls to warm up with as well

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Under construction

Rattlewood is going through renovations on 5 of their fairways right now as they are putting in bermuda grass. These holes have temporary tee boxes and are playing as par 3s. Staff is outstanding. Course itself is average

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Changing the fairways to bermuda

Four holes were closed due to changing the grass in the fairways to Bermuda. They did have temporary par threes set up on those holes, as the greens were not under construction. All in all it is a nice course and a nice layout, but be prepared to play six par threes out of 18 holes. If you can play it for cheap, it's still worth it and you will have a fun time.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice course

Always a great course to play, it's open, well maintained and isn't engulfed by a community. This time around though they were re-doing the fairways on 4 holes which they turned into short par 3's. no mention of this when booking! Other then that the other holes were fine! Greens were slightly beat up with ball marks but we did get a fair amount of rain the past week so there soft. Fix your ball marks people! Greens rolled true though and were quick. Sand traps could use some attention, and some gravel clearing, plenty of rocks. Still a nice track.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Good value and fun!

There was no ranger as far as we could see. A painfully slow beginner group caused a lot of other groups to quit and give up. It was still over 5 hours. The course is really nice and well maintained. It is worth checking out at least once. I plan to play it again.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 18
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

rattlewood - slammed sunday

the course was in very good condition, greens were smoking fast, and the fairways were solid, allowing tee balls to roll out a good ways. but it was sunday, and my group and every other group on the course were crammed in like sardins. everyone who owned golf clubs was there, i saw jeans, tee shirts, two-somes with 1 set of clubs. you expect a big crowd on sunday, but not like that, i witnessed another golfer drive over to my ball, from a different hole and smack it, without even looking at the ball for an identifing mark. i was disappointed at the rate of play and the ignorance of the other golfs

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser

great value

I play at Rattlewood several times a year. The course is well maintained most of the time. I think it is one of the best courses when it comes to the value of the money. The course layout is not that difficult, but enjoyable. The pace of play on weekends is slow, but can't complain because it is the same at the most of public courses around. I prefer to play on weekday afternoons when a day gets longer.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser

Decent Layout, Bad Condition

I've played this course many times in the past, and within the last few months. The problem with the course conditions have to do with the greens and some of the fairways. The greens were recently aerated but they should have recovered by now. Not only were they not recovered but they seemed to be in worse condition than they were back when they first aerated. They are very lumpy and have not been properly rolled. I would not recommend this course with the current conditions.
Another problem was that the course wasn't properly marshaled. There was a single, playing behind a twosome, and we were a 4-some playing behind both. We were waiting on several tees, which was not acceptable, especially for weekend golf. The single should have been paired with the 2-some, which would have made the pace of play more acceptable.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0

Course was under construction but still really enjoyed it.

First. time playing this course. Very impressive besides the couple holes under repairs. Staff was very friendly and welcoming.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Hope you like playing in the wind.

This course is for giving. Always windy at this course.It's a fun course to play.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Early season condition issues

The greens were recently drilled and sanded - I guess that's what you should expect this time of year. There are also a couple of huge areas of what appears to be zoizia sod - completely brown and sort of disconcerting, although they provide a decent lie from which to hit. The course overall is very dry and hard. A ball hit into deep rough actually bounced high a couple of times. Balls in the fairway bounce high and run far.
The greens here are quite small and most are very well protected. They also have some complex shapes to them, making for some challenging reads. When I played, many pins were placed quite close to the edges of the greens on the down-slope, making it pretty difficult to get the ball positioned below the hole. As a result, despite the course playing exceptionally short because of how hard the ground was, it still is pretty challenging, although I can't say it's the kind of challenge I enjoy (note to self - continue to work on short game).

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Course well laid out and enjoyable to play.

Greens recently aerated but should be in great shape in about 2 weeks. Windy on day we played so course conditions more challenging. Course overall in pretty good shape and good value for booking through web page.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
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