Lives
Brooklyn, NY
Handicap
10-14
Age
45-54
Gender
Male
Skill
Intermediate
Plays
A few times a week

Review Statistics

Average Rating

3.5
3.5
Total 2 Reviews

Rating Breakdown

2 Reviews
5 Stars
0
4 Stars
1
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Recommended Courses
1
Not Recommended Courses
0
Helpful Votes Count
2
Not Helpful Votes Count
0
First Review
08/18/2013
Last Review
09/22/2015

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4.0
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Great Course Shame about the Pace.

The course is good but could be great! Fun course with good risk reward holes. The wind is the defense for this place, all the holes I thought were fair apart from the 10th with its second shot over the hazard way to long, other than that the layout was good with every hole being different and not just straight up and down. I've never seen a rectangular green (the 8th) with 90 degree corners until the day I played.

Fairways and greens were in very good condition, some of the best I've played this year. Greens were fast and consistent so no complaints with that, first cut was fair too.

Newport National is OK for its price point, could be an excellent course if the management got on top of the pace of play as everything is good to go. Layout of the course with 2 par 3's next to each other does not help pace neither does the lack of rangers or concern from the staff.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average

LaTourette Golf Course

Played On 8/15/2013
3.0
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Poor staff friendliness on the day I played.

When does a tee-time mean a tee-time? Well not at la Tourette. This has nothing to do with the great service GolfNow provides but the basic poor service of La Tourette.
I like had a 6.15am tee-time and was on the course well in advanced of this like others who had booked a tee-time that day. One twosome (who we ended up playing with) had their tee time pushed back twice so there time became 6.30 instead of the 6am they had booked. We in fact ended up teeing off at 6.45. 45 mins later for one set of guys and 30mins for me. One of those guys asked the starter why this was as the starter kept pushing foursomes after foursomes (7 groups in total) out before us. Now as the course’s first tee-time was 5.45 that day you can see why those who had booked a tee-time for the early morning were a little miffed that this was happening. The starter did not want to answer why this was but we later found out that on Wednesday La Tourette push a local club out first but make all those that have a legitimate tee-time wait until they have gone.
I am partly fine with this…. IF, La Tourette would make a block booking for this so mugs like me and others do not have to wait around while the best of the best get to jump a line, jobs for the boy’s.
This has happened at a few of the other NY publics and was stopped, but not at La Tourette as it seems.
Anyway just a heads up for all those early morning golfers wanting to play at this course and as I was always taught, “if you don’t like it, go somewhere else and hurt them in the tills” and I’ll be doing that.
Course wise it’s in good shape, one or two greens need a bit of work but happy with the golf at La Tourette, just not how we were treated

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
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