peterfmartin

Peninsula is a great golf course. With excellent conditions and some beautiful views on the back nine, this course is highly recommended if you are in the Fish Creek area. While tee times were scarce, the pace for us was right around 4 hours for a foursome. Maybe we got lucky but most people playing here seemed to play relatively fast.

We played this course on a Sunday afternoon. The course is in really good condition. The greens were great, and the tee boxes and fairways were also in super condition. My main complaint is that we teed off at 1:30 pm and scarcely had enough time to complete our round. The pace of play was moderately slow and at the turn, there was a 15 minute backup. I guess some players got lunch and the course made no attempt to keep things moving. No marshals or rangers. And then we got twenty messages that the carts had to be in by 6:00 even though it would not be dark until 6:20. The course needs to either marshal slow play and/or just let players play until darkness sets in.

This course was extremely well maintained. There are views on most holes of the mountains that surround the course.. Even the rough is green grass at this course (and that was in January when some courses have dormant grass in the rough).

The course plays longer than the stated yardage. Several holes have doglegs that limit the use of drivers on tee shots. The staff was very friendly. The greens putted fairly true though the grass was thin on several greens.

Many holes had incredible views of Pittsburgh or nearby neighborhoods from a very high elevation- hence the name of the course. When we were there, the greens had been aerated within the last week or so and were quite rough, but otherwise the course was in very fine shape. The pace of play was excellent when we were there.