Lake/River at Fowler's Mill Golf Course

I am a single digit handicap who has worked in the golf industry for 5+ years.

I played on a Sunday AND…… the weather was near ideal and gorgeous. The layout and routing of the course was pretty good. That’s where the good ends.

While the carts were new and nice, nearly all of them had TRASH in them. When I went to fix my first divot I noticed the sand bottle was empty ….. tried the other side - same!

SEVERAL fairway bunkers were in disrepair and not being maintained anymore….. had grass and weeds growing in them.

The whole course had been grossly overwatered …… there were several places where carts or maintenance equipment had left 6 to 8 inch tire tracks of mud in the playing areas.

Fairways had NOT been mown. Greens were SO soft, a 40-yd pitch would leave a divot.

I might of thought rain a factor but 1) it had been sunny the last few days and I spoke with someone else on the course and they said at most they’ve been a quarter inch of rain over the last few weeks. ( there were places on the course in the sunlight that still had water at the tops of grass blades in mid afternoon ) I also played elsewhere in town the following day, and this problem did not exist.

It was nearly impossible to find a golf ball ….. between plugged balls and leaves that had not been blown away from playing areas. It was next to impossible..

Also - no short game area to warmup / practice with.

I was kind of expecting an anticipating an upscale golf experience and this was NOT it. HORRIBLE experience!

I made a trip to the area from about 5 hours away and this was easily the worst course in my itinerary.

Whoever runs the place should be embarrassed!

***Btw - I next to never provide review of anything or anyone but I had to warn golf enthusiasts of the condition of this property-

I recommend you take your money elsewhere, unless you want to go play at a Mudbog!

Fowler’s is a great P. Dye track. Unfortunately, this time around the course was almost under water. But, we played anyways. Staff couldn’t have been any nicer to its out of town guests.

It was an overcast morning. The course was in great shape. The rough wasn’t overgrown. The course is well maintained. The greens are very fair. The landscape is beautiful with mature trees and playable bunkers.

Beautiful layout. Challenging course with several different types of holes making each shot unique. Would absolutely play here again, one of the best publicly available courses in Cleveland IMO.

The course was in pretty conditions we played the River 9 amd the Maple 9. The river was in good condition the maple was poor. The maples sand traps were more like weeds. we got paired with another two sum which was rough because the one player didn’t know how to play at all. A ranger really needs to be out there because the one golfer really slowed down the pace of play and caused the course to get backed up.

Everything was great - only negative point was the bunkers haven’t been raked in a long time. greens good, Fairways great. Just over 4 hours for my foursome

Tough course, but lots of fun. The rough is cut very high, making it tough to find some shots. Course was in good shape. $60 is a little steep, but a Hot Deal is well worth it!

Course layout is absolutely beautiful.. I’ve heard so many on and off things about this course and had to try it out

Fairways mostly perfect

Greens.. all but a few are junk mostly dead patchy greens seems like that course has really let go of about half the features that most people look at while going to a golf course..very hard to believe this course is a top 10 course in Ohio especially over boulder creek/ sleepy hollow….. tell your greenskeeper he’s gotta get it together