The Links At Rising Star Casino

One of my favorite links courses in the tri state area. Very fun to play and is priced just right for what you get.

Very nice course. Just don't use good balls because if you do there gone if you miss the fairway .

With hot time, great deal.

Greens in superb shape.

People still don’t clean and fill divots.

Idiots.

This was a good course, but to be at a casino with little amenities. There was no course cart offering drinks. The course bathrooms were dirty. The few good amenities that was available were the chip and practice green. No Driving range to warmup on.

The staff was nice and helpful. The pace of play early on in the day Was very good. The course was wet from rain The previous night but that doesn't effect my review. Tee boxs were very chunky and damaged, fairways were already showing signs of burnt and dying grass in large patches around the course. The greens were had ball marks that had not been fixed by players or staffing and many of those marks were days possibility weeks old. The worst part I think were the bunkers... I should call them gravel pits with a bit of sand. For the price of this course I was very disappointed with the issues with the course. I have play so many courses that were 2/3 or half the price and maintained a thousand times better.

An hour drive for me.

Was it worth it?

Yes. IF the pace of play remains the same.

Greens are in good shape. I still had to fix divots on my lines.

They provide sand to fix fairway divots.

As has become the norm, I saw very few filled with sand.

If the price goes down $10’ish dollars, I’ll make the drive.

Course was fun to play, 85 degree day and had 15mph winds gusting up to probably 25mph. Down side was greens were very slow, me and my buddies had a lot of down hill puts come up short. Overall good course and fun with some good challenges.

Years ago this place was great ! Not so much anymore. You can tell they are just keeping the course going with the bare minimum. Not spraying for your normal weeds etc…. Bunkers are about unplayable . It’s a shame but you can tell the casino and the course are on limited budget .

It was like we had our own private golf course. Great shape. Great Layout

Nice layout with smooth running greens. Good mix of easier and harder holes. Overall condition was very good. A very enjoyable round.

They let us out but had lost our resv. We played behind a large outing but enjoyed the course.

love this course. just wish it was cheaper sometimes. But it was in really good shape. My congrats to the grounds crew.

Our bad experience started with the clubhouse attendant charging us full price and not wanting to honor our GolfNow contracted price. He gave us an excuse that they don’t have that rate on weekends. I didn’t stand for this and after 2 phone calls the attendant made to someone in the management department, I was given the GolfNow price. The attendant did NOT apologize, was very rude, and was “put off” by the fact he had to give me the GolfNow price and issue a cash difference to me.

Secondly, the course was in very unacceptable conditions. Tee boxes were burnt up and had divots everywhere, even on par 4’s and par 5’s! It was obvious the course management team has decided to cut back on expenses and forgo watering on the entire course. This place has gone down considerably both in course excellence and customer service.

After decades of playing this course, I will NOT be going back to this place. Completely unacceptable to have this occur at once was a very nice place to spend a day of golf and eat at the casino.

Sorry to see this place go to the crapper!

Got to the course, golf now reservation was not even in their system. So had to wait almost 30 minutes after our tee time to go off behind 4-5 groups waiting on the first tee box. Got onto the first green and the irrigation turned on (got soaked). Pace of play was slow, greens were pretty bumpy and littered with ball marks. Overall course in decent shape, bunkers are mixed with what seems like dirt, pea gravel and a little sand. $70 was steep for the condition.

I really want to leave a good review here, I learned to play sand shots, shots out of the rough, and how to read greens here about 15 years ago when I was starting my golf career, but I'm not going to and they deserve every negative review they get in spite of the pandemic.

Ownership is the issue and it was a problem pre-pandemic. The casino and hotel are run down and as much they are killing the revenue for the course. The bathroom in the clubhouse had cockroaches and there was no food, on a Friday, aside from candy and chips. The beer selection is terrible too. So as far as amenities go it's bare bones. No range and just a small putting green, which takes you out of contention for a course charging $68 dollars a round!

The greens are slow, if you can read them though it's the most interesting part of the course as the defense of the course, aside from penal rough, is the grass growing opposite the breaks to fool the player. But when they're this slow it's no fun for advanced golfers. The grass on the teeboxes is not mown well and some of the grass is so thick you can't find the ground.

Bunkers are dirt with rocks, not sand that you would find anywhere in the world, but cheap playground dirt, lots of rocks, beware your vokeys. They're using the same sand for the traps that they're using in the waste bunkers so no good. And there are no rakes anywhere so if you're playing later in the day you may be SOL for bunker conditions.

Rough was in good condition slightly penal, but not going to make it unbearable for newer players. The tall grass is supposed to be penal that's links golf. Don't overestimate your ability to hit it straight AND long or you may lose some balls.

Not worth the rate they're charging I almost felt stupid for paying the hot deal rate as that's still too much. This is an under $40 course for this area till and if ever they get there stuff together. Better courses in the area: all but meadow wood, Avon, fern.

They can't afford to staff the place and it shows (No bartender/food staff on a Friday on a gorgeous summer day). This course is in dire need to separate itself from the casino and new ownership. Poor excuse for what this place used to be and what it's capable of being.

The course was in great shape and not too crowded. Staff was friendly.