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I am rating tis course based on expectations and its current rating as the number 3 nest public course in NJ. Base don that it is not worth the money. Overall conditions was not great T boxes where chewed up, many fairways had dead spots with just dirt showing, the greens were also chewed up. I have played cheap muni course a few weeks ago that had greens in better shape.

Staff is inexperienced (very young) and they wold not honor the golf now reservation because they only want you to pay them directly and their clubhouse is not open. SOP OI had to pay an additional $59 to play and then contact Gofl Now to get a refund. There was no manager on site only the Pro Shop Manager who was maybe 22 years old and made no attempt to promote the course of good will by giving us a break an honoring the Gofl Now T time that we paid.

Having said that I really do like the course and the layout ti just a shame that they have an inexperienced staff with no knowledge and that the course conditions are not up to the # 3 rating that they currently hold in the top 10 list of best NJ public courses. If you want o play a very nice course for the same amount of money do yourself a favor and play Neshanic. .

Do yourself a favor if you want to play a nice course for about the same price point as Architects go a head and play Nechanic. It s in better condition and the staff is much more professional. If you care to read they details of why I recommend Nechanic over Architects the details are listed below but in a few words, playing Architect was a big let down.
First the Staff sucks they are a bunch of inexperienced children. Secondly the current policy due to covid are wildly inconsistent. No one in the club house means that you can only pay online. I booked a T time via Golf Now that was paid in full Architects only wants to golfer to pay the T tiem fee to them. Normally this means that Golf Now would only change the reservation fees and the T time would be paid at the course directly to the course which is fine. But Architects will not allow a single person into the clubhouse even with a mask which seems insane since they force you to ride two per cart even during covid. In addition the so called Manager refused to work with us in any way. It was pay us what we want and we do not care if you were inconvenienced because we did follow up with Gofl Now to see if they removed us form their web site. I have booked 8 to 9 T times via Golf NOW during covid and this see the first issue I have had with a course. The young Pro Shop manager distention that we pay them $59 to play even thought we already paid Gofl Now $37.49 to play. They made no accommodation other than to get us on the course basically said it was our problem not theirs.

As far as the course it is a very unique and fun course to play however for the money and its reputation it is in what I would call mediocre shape. T boxes were all chewed up, greens looked like they have no maintenance many many pock marks/divots and in some cases spots. Put it this way I have seen better greens on many municipal courses. Many of the Fairways had patches of dead grass where only dirt was visible. Now these are conditions that you can see on many golf courses I just do not expect to see them on what is supposed to be the number 3 public golf course in NJ.