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This golf course has something for everybody. You can challenge yourself with length, but all levels of players can find a tee box to suit their game. The greens are large, but quite challenging, depending on pin placement.

Course conditions are excellent. You won’t be disappointed. Highly recommend this course.

The greens were punched and top dressed the day I played. The course adjusted the price down to reflect the less than optimal putting conditions. Shot values were really good. Recommend this course.

It’s sad to see a Donald Ross golf course in such shabby condition. The tee boxes are almost unplayable, and the fairways haven’t seen seed or weed control that’s detectable.

The good news is the greens aren’t nearly as poorly maintained as the rest of the course. In fact, the ball rolls nicely the vast majority of the time.

More bad news: There was no control of the pace of play. Tee times didn’t make any difference; check in, pay and go, off the front or back, at your option. We made the turn and ran into golfers we never saw on the front. One pair told us they saw the front was “jammed up”, so they decided to just “jump on the back”. We left, and won’t go back.

The day we played was after some heavy rains. Low lying areas were swampy, which isn’t unusual for this course.

The biggest disappointment was the maintenance of the tee boxes, particularly the yellow tees we played from. The tee boxes were lumpy, overgrown with weeds, and not mowed. It’s obvious that the course has invested little to nothing in the forward yellow and red tee boxes.

There are no easy holes at Moose Ridge, but all are fun to take on. I did lose 2 balls per side :-D

The carts feature GPS, which is extremely helpful as there are many blind and semi-blind shots, depending on where you are positioned for second and third shots.

The greens were in great shape, after accounting for unrepaired ball marks created by golfers lacking basic courtesy. This is a common problem across publicly accessible course and is no worse at Moose Ridge. The speed of the greens and their undulations made proximity to the hole paramount.

Moose Ridge features impressive elevation changes that challenge your club selection. The scorecard provides playing tips for each hole, which does help.

All in all, a great day of golf!

The changes made to the course mandated by a water project that impacted the golf course have really settled in. The rough was punative but not extreme. Leslie Park challanges all skill levels.

Pace of play can be a problem as the course is extremely popular.