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Crystal Springs Golf Club
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Crystal Springs Golf Club in Hamburg touts a reputation of being not only the most challenging golf course in New Jersey, but also one of the most challenging layouts east of the Mississippi. The site filled with water after its use as a limestone quarry in 1929, which formed the natural springs on the 10th hole that the course is named after. The layout is definitely a shot-maker's course. Carefully sculpted mounding that frames the fairways and greens defines each hole. There is also tall and gnarly rough treacherously guarding the tight fairways. The golf course sits just a few miles from New Jersey's highest point, sprawling across an undulating terrain that makes it difficult to find an even lie. One of the most notably difficult, and subsequently the most talked about, holes is the 11th. The hole is perched atop a cliff overlooking the Windsor Quarry.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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| Black | 72 | 6816 yards | 73.5 | 139 |
| Blue | 72 | 6395 yards | 71.4 | 132 |
| White | 72 | 5862 yards | 69.1 | 123 |
| White (W) | 72 | 5862 yards | 75.0 | 130 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5073 yards | 70.1 | 126 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 73.2/148 | 526 | 413 | 416 | 476 | 150 | 375 | 379 | 517 | 154 | 3406 | 399 | 185 | 494 | 164 | 561 | 131 | 416 | 397 | 378 | 3125 | 6531 |
| Blue M: 71.3/144 | 504 | 392 | 376 | 442 | 136 | 356 | 365 | 491 | 142 | 3204 | 369 | 181 | 457 | 132 | 536 | 120 | 390 | 382 | 363 | 2930 | 6134 |
| White M: 69.0/135 W: 74.9/138 | 482 | 333 | 342 | 398 | 123 | 339 | 331 | 456 | 135 | 2939 | 318 | 176 | 417 | 120 | 494 | 112 | 369 | 366 | 326 | 2698 | 5637 |
| Gold M: 66.5/129 | 448 | 313 | 301 | 370 | 109 | 309 | 314 | 421 | 104 | 2689 | 300 | 116 | 383 | 111 | 476 | 93 | 310 | 331 | 302 | 2422 | 5111 |
| Red W: 70.1/127 | 442 | 282 | 297 | 364 | 100 | 280 | 282 | 411 | 90 | 2548 | 279 | 109 | 380 | 97 | 452 | 85 | 305 | 318 | 251 | 2276 | 4824 |
| Handicap | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 12 | |||
| Par | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 37 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 12 |
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Sad state of affairs
Crystal has always been my favorite course. It’s challenging, but scorable for good players. Unfortunately, ownership has shifted all attention to catering to the “resort” crowd and therefore ignored the normal needs of your weekend golfer. Rates are extraordinarily high, pace of play was 5 hours, tee boxes were all ripped up, staff was focused on guests of the resort, not the golf course. There were no range ball available before the range, the machine was just empty and no staff seemed to care. What a horrible experience.. We stood around and waited on every shot we hit.
Updated review
Played 7.30 am on Monday morning.
Greens were excellent as usual and the fairways were soft despite the drought
Perhaps some places are a little extreme
Hit a 7 iron on first at pin and came up 20 ft short and lost ball in heavy rough just off the green
No need to make it that tough and slows down play as spent minutes looking for ball
Rough walking off with double
Set of par 3 are excellent.. 5th, 9th and 11th are world class
Although can not remember the last time i saw the dam on 9th full of water
Great Challenge for good golfers
Toughest public courses lived up to its ranking. Notwithstanding very scenic holes, wide variety of hole layouts, it’s still possible to shoot close to your handicap with smart play. Greens are in excellent condition and fast!
Great Deal
Played the course for $70 with cart and small range bucket. Narrow fairways and blind shots means you have to think. Would be nice if there was a map of the hole on the tee box.
Add 10+ score here
Course is beautiful and well maintained. Accuracy is the key here fairway is so tight even your tee shot hit the fairway, your next shot could be on anywhere. Great course but you wouldn't come back if you ever played on Wild turkey or Ballyowen.
Difficult but fun
Beautiful, very narrow fairways , challenging. Not a place get your best score! But Beutiful
Outing removes Rangers
Rangers had to be busy regulating an outing, no reason a Tuesday afternoon round should take 5:25 to play
Challenging
Beautiful place with inspiring views. Definitely a challenging course. Played between bogie and double bogie golf but definitely proud of my play on such a challenging course.
Great Shape and Challenging Course !
The day of Pace were very slow. But they have a nice shape and good challenging course !
All Staffs were very friendly .
I love there course !
Course is getting better
Compared to two weeks ago, the course had dried out well and carts on fairways
Greens still pretty bumpy after being aerated two weeks ago
Will be another 2 weeks until decent
They give you practice balls included but the ball machine was empty yet again
Slow round.. We hit off 15 minutes late and took over 5 hours
13 dollars for brat at halfway house... seems expensive to me
Part of that is just it is a hard course and too many beginner players that would have more fun at black bear
Resorts World Catskills Stay & Play Package
Resorts World Catskills Stay & Play Package
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