LaTourette Golf Course

Bunkers are made of dirt, no sand whatsoever. Carts were filthy and not emptied out between use. No Marshal on the course. Greens were aerated without warning and filled with debris. Tee boxes are a mess. Price is absurd for the course amenities and conditions.

if you ever want learn how NOT to maintain a golf course, this is the place.

Step 1: Aerate your greens, use half a bag of sand on each, brush the sand in once, then leave the greens for 3-4 weeks and hope for the best.

Step 2: Still charge full green fees with unfilled holes on the greens for customer satisfaction

Step 3: Progressively slant all your tee boxes and never ever level them over 8 years

Step 4: Convert all your bunkers to water hazards, never fix the drainage, and hire geese to swim in your new “water bunkers”

Step 5: Never replace range balls.

Step 6: Find the hardest surface you can for your range turf to compliment your tee boxes and give golfers the closest experience to your actual tee boxes you can

Step 7: Add potholes and uneven surfaces to your parking lot for added convenience

Step 8: NEVER clean your golf carts and let the rain do it

Good course worth playing for the money. Little shaggy and had just punched the greens. Need to monitor pace of play better

Spend your money elsewhere. Unfortunately I had the worst experience of my life playing golf here and once I played on a course which shared property with an insane asylum. There were literally people aimlessly walking around the fairways.
Carts- garbage
Staff- 2 young kids
Course- poorest of poor maintenance
Amenities- literally zero

Very disappointed in the course conditions! Total lack of maintenance in many months. No staffing including pro shop, starter, Marshall, only one person in bar /restaurant area to sell tee times. No tee markers on the worn out teeing area's Multiple flooded bunkers which haven't been machined since last fall. All this while charging Top Dollar on a Monday morning. Need I say more ??

I almost fell out of cart when I saw a crew working on #3 Tee Box! I can’t remember last time I saw Any type of Maintenance going on here, Bravo! Now I’m wondering if the course has been sold to another management team? Multiple tee boxes being leveled and resurfaced, also irrigation pipes being replaced and sand traps getting face lifts, Finally! This course has great potential if maintained. Looking forward to next spring to see if all the work continues, let’s hope so👍!

Very bad condition over all go somewhere else! And expensive!

Apparently there is a mower for on the grounds, fairways were cut, lots of missed areas and Rough is high no doubt for upcoming S.I championship coming up. Still NO sand in traps, concrete like and mosquito 🦟 pool on hole5 trap! Chow group sucks! Can’t EVER get players club tee times from 12-12:45, every day it’s same, either 70 year old women covered head to toe masks on or fast food delivery guys playing from tips spraying balls 150 yards left and right! Also drive carts right to greenside no matter where balls are. Never a Ranger, could be So much better, what a shame!

Greens finally growing in after airation, still water in sand trap on 5! Other traps more like concrete and tee boxes rough! Getting ready for Staten Island amateur championship so rough is deeper than usual and secondly cut around some greens. Mowing very uneven and fresh cut grass left on course to hide balls! The course can be really great with more effort ALL YEAR AROUND not just for special occasions. Driving range is only option on island but what a disgrace. Where does all the players club monthly dues go? Get it together or don’t bother renewing lease, fresh start/ideas needed!

Course in good shape Pace of play is slow. Waiting on almost every hole.

Second round here so far this year and even though it’s still early, American golf continues to neglect this course! Tee boxes have more sand than the traps!! Not a single garbage can or ball washer anywhere in sight. No starter or Ranger, carts 🛒 terrible. Where does all the “Players Club” money 💰 go? Smarter players bringing grocery bags to range since never seems to be enough baskets. I’ve been playing here since inception of players club and they have done nothing but take away perks. Only 1 beverage instead of 2 and better get that drink before you tee off, 1 “large” bucket of balls if your lucky. If your unlucky you’ll get stuck behind golfers who have NO business playing from tips and love to join up and play as 5 & 6somes all the while paying skins off on each green!😷. The Chow group are particularly annoying. When whoever is in charge of maintaining fairways and greens put in time and effort this course can be great( like before the S.I open) the rest of year makes you wonder if anyone cares. It’s still golf and late in day quite pleasant. Somehow somebody seems to book the 12pm and 12:09 tee times EVERY DAY 🤮

The course ended up being closed and by the time I realized it I couldn’t cancel my tee time. So I paid 90 dollars to drive back home.