Carlton Oaks Lodge, Ascend Hotel Collection

Nice greens, good layout. Terrible driving conditions as the course is full of holes of all types, gopher and the like. Tee boxes were bumpy and the range looked decades tired.
Other than the greens, you cannot find a smooth surface on that course.
No marshals, no starter.
Hot deal is worth it but I would not pay the regular fares until someone irons that place out.

Great place! A couple of holes where you don’t hit the fairway that ball is lost! So make sure to hit straight..
have fun; good luck out there

This is a challenging course and can be very humbling at times when we went I believe it was after some bad weather so there were lots of flood spots and mud. All of the bunkers and ponds were a mess. Hopefully it gets fixed up soon.

Horrible condition. It’s hard to play a full round of golf without landing on grass all day. Weeds, mud, overgrown bumpy uneven tee boxes, gopher mounds, hard packed bunkers, wasteland bunkers completely unkept, etc. My friend literally had a gopher pop up one foot in front of him on an approach causing an errant shot. Hysterical actually, and was the best moment of the day.. Thank You Carlton for the laughs!

Mr chen needs to spend some money on course maintenance, fairway grass is nonexistent, constantly have to find some green grass to hit off. Bunkers are just as bad, hard as concrete and lots of rocks. Greens were ok and they actually mowed the tee boxes.

Course needs maintenance from the fairways to the greens

Great staff but the course conditions are poor. Needs a complete overhaul. Felt like we were playing on cement

Tee Boxes: Very good condition.
Fairways: Fair to good condition; many areas of bare ground.
Traps/Bunkers: Very firm, with little sand on top.
Greens: Firm.

I love the course layout, but it has been in better condition overall. I would gladly pay more to see improvements in the fairways and bunkers.

I’ve been playing Carlton Oaks for many years and it’s been getting worse and worse. The course itself is in such a terrible state. Overgrown tee boxes, horrible fairways, and sand traps that destroy your clubs. There are 1/2”-2” rocks in every sand trap and I’ll tell you what you won’t know until you hit one. And I’m not talking OB traps. I’m talking green side traps. Full of rocks. For the price ($80 on weekends) just pay the little extra and play somewhere else. I’m not trying to be a Karen or complain but even with living less than 5 minutes away I won’t be playing here again. For winter golf there’s no reason the grass should be that dead on every part of the course except the tee box.