joekop01

$94 to play a round at the shore, reasonable. $94 to play a round where tee boxes hadnt seen a mower in a week unacceptable. The fairways were hairy and the greens not better but the conditions of the tee boxes were appalling. The rough wasnt as thick and deep as the tee boxes.
Speaking of mowers, they were out but the operators lacked even the slightest amount of sense. No desire to get off to side when groups were hitting shots, had one stop in front of the green on a par 3. Just awful etiquette by them.
Only positive were the guys in the cart barn. Very friendly bunch.

First sign that you shouldn’t play a course is when there are signs up that say to ask about discounted rates because of course conditions only to find out discounts are only given to township residents and seniors. Its $46 to walk at 4PM on a Saturday without a discount so no biggie. What a waste of money, the course is in horrendous shape with the exception of the greens. For the most parts the greens were decent but several holes had dead spots and apparently the clientele of the course doesn’t understand how to fix a ball mark.
The rest of the course is appalling, tee boxes and greens are a combination of dirt and dormant Bermuda. And therein lies the problem, management has decided to regrass the course with Bermuda. The Philadelphia area is barely in the acceptable zone to utilize Latitude 36 Bermuda and a township own and run municipal course is not one that should be trying it. Once the tee boxes and fairways grow in this course will have a 3 month shelf life where it’s in playable shape, the remaining 9 months you should just play winter rules. It also appears that management lost all their mowers because the rough was 2-3” all over, I would assume that a typical round is going to run 5 hours given how hard it is to locate balls a foot off the fairway.
I wouldn’t recommend this course to anyone, save your money.