gtrjunkie

For such a highly rated Pittsburgh area course it was nothing more than average, below average especially for the price. Bumpy greens, crap sand, gravel bumpy cart paths. Doesn't seem like they have enough carts. There were none for us to take and had to wait about 10 min for two to come in. Your choice of food in the small farmhouse/clubhouse is a plain reg. or bun length hot dog($4.75), breakfast sandwich or cold sandwich from the fridge. Slow play, took a little over 5 hrs to finish the round. No one in my group has played here before and will not drive the hour it took to get here to play it again. Could have stayed close to home and played better for less.

Only been playing golf for about a year and played Linden Hall for the first time in early June. I've been to 15 area courses so far including Totterridge, Madison , (only live a couple miles away), and Mystic Rock twice. While some others in the area are nice, my first choice to play is Linden Hall. Sure if I had the money I'd love to play Mystic or Shepherd's every week but since I don't, Linden Hall is about as close as you can get without selling organs. Very reasonably priced, good food, friendly staff from the Pro Shop, bar, starters, groundskeepers and the ladies in the snack shack. Great shape, amazing views, quiet, nice sand in bunkers that don't get washed out or turn into small lakes for 3 days after a rain, no holes I don't like. Only bad thing, and it's been mentioned in other reviews, is the gnats on some holes. Wish they had a driving range though.