Old Orchard Country Club

Course condition was not good.
Sand traps in poor condition.
Sprinklers were on when playing.

Course was alot of fun. Tee box grass was a little long but nothing crazy. Will definitely play again

golf course is a DUMP. golf cart had no BRAKES the local golfers call this course scourched earth in SPRING OK although very bad condition fairways are like high rough on most courses GREENS are burnt only dirt is there ALL GOLF CARTS ARE JUNK they should refund everyone who played here HALL OF FAME DESIGNER OF THIS COURSE SIR TILINGHAST IS SPINING IN HIS GRAVE...RIP ALL BEWARE IF SOMTHING IS NOT DONE THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDOS THIS AREA IS EXPENSIVE TO LIVE WHY IS THIS DUMP ALLOWED TO STAY IN BUSINESS IS BEYOND ME.........

Really sad to see the course conditions. Back 9 was closed for airation, but why bother? Front 9 was either over grown or bare. Greens were un-puttable (literally)and the round was basically just going to the driving range.

Course was never in great shape but this was a joke and the course should really be closed at this point.

This could still be one of the nicer courses around, I've been playing here for more than forty years. I've gone to weddings in the restaurant, have had leagues here. I live in Eatontown and this used to be the first local course I would want to play. Now, Tillinghast must be turning over in his grave. The conditions yesterday were the worst ever. The course could still be salvaged if they would put some big cash into maintaining it. You can see that the current staff is in over their head. Still a great design, but when you can't putt because of all the dead grass, hit out of the sand because of all the live weeds or hit off a decent lie anywhere on the course, well they just can't expect us paying customers to be happy about it. I still hold out hope, but it is seriously like watching an old friend pass before your eyes. Very sad.

This course is strait up garbage, please avoid this dump at all cost, this was my first time playing here and it’s like hitting off sidewalk, this course doesn’t even know what Maintaince even means, for the price they are charging they are robbing customers, this is laughable and I’m hard pressed to even call this a golf course, should be booted off golf now and i wouldn’t send my worst enemy here, when asked the staff if this was ever maintained was rudely told off and told there had been a drought for 7 weeks and that all jersey public courses are like this and i had played 18 holes earlier that morning on lush greens, i asked about an irrigation system and was told only rain could improve this course, be prepared to Hit off weeds, rock hard dirt and cnt even call them greens, it’s pure dirt with patches of weeds, the ball will bounce upon contact, never rolls, i have never seen such a nonsense establishment in my life, disgrace to the of golf

This place is an absolute dump. It felt like I was playing golf in a county park. I literally couldn’t tell where the fairway ended and the rough began.

Unfortunately, I didn’t read the scores of negative reviews until after I spent $70 x 3 to play at this dog track. This course needs to be removed from Golf Now immediately so other fools don’t spend another nickel at this place.

After golfing for 45 years, this is the worst conditions of any course I have been on.

I don’t need to repeat all the negative reviews of this course while all very true no one has pointed out the real culprit here. The owners, yes the well known gas construction company in central NJ for those of you who don’t know, JF Kiely. The nephew of the owner, he should be called out and ashamed of himself to let a course of AW Tillinhast be in such shape. Everyone I speak to they all say the thing; this could be such a great course, what a great design and layout. But how sad it is that he has no respect or any love of the game and to disrespect AW Tillinhast name with the way this course has fallen from grace. You should be ashamed.

Everything is destroyed. Greens are like a 70s shag carpet but with a lot of parts where the grass is dead so making a put is a miracle. Tee boxes aren’t mowed, and most sprinklers are spraying water but clearly Aren’t working. For 67$ it’s the worse value I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t pay 20 bucks for this course. Don’t book here!

I normally don’t give a bad review but this doesn’t deserve anything but a bad review. $60 per person was too much-I wouldn’t pay $10. This course has so much potential-please put money back into it and makes it worth the money to play. So disappointed.

I don’t like leaving a negative review, but hopefully it gets to management. I’ve played this course 3 times now. The first time was about a year ago. There weren’t many issues i could recall.

The second time i played here was early spring of 2022. I played on a Wednesday after work. The “fairway” was more like a rough. I drove several balls off the tee directly into the fairway and couldn’t find them because the grass was so long. Ever since then, this course has been falling off.

I most recently played this past Sunday. Several more issues to note. Again, fairways were not well maintained and the grass is entirely too long (although i found all of my balls this time). The second issue and probably the most frustrating is that the greens are consistently too long! I’ve seen fairways mowed shorter than these greens. It’s like putting on Velcro. It completely ruins the experience. There were several holes where the greens were only 50% grass and 50% dirt. Several greens had long crabgrass growing in random areas. They’re in horrible shape. I’m not a super particular golfer so i can manage with a slightly undermaintained fairway, but the shape that these greens were in is inexcusable. None of the bunkers are raked so if you’re hitting out of them, you’ll likely be hitting out of someone’s footprint. I saw a gopher living in a hole it dug in one of the bunkers.

This course is absolutely not worth a $70 round on weekends. I would be upset if i paid $40 to play in these conditions. The only positive comment i can give is that the rate of play is generally pretty good, probably because there aren’t many people that want to play here. This course is in desperate need of a new maintenance crew. I will not be going back.