Crystal Springs GC
Aerial view from Crystal Springs Golf Club.
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4.2
439 Reviews (439)
5 Stars
191
4 Stars
159
3 Stars
65
2 Stars
16
1 Stars
8
Conditions
4.0
Value
4.1
Layout
4.4
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.4
86.6%
Recommend this course
373 out of 439 reviews
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4.0
19 Reviews (19)
5 Stars
9
4 Stars
4
3 Stars
3
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.0
Value
3.9
Layout
4.3
Pace
3.6
Amenities
4.1
StaffFriendliness
4.4
84.2%
Recommend this course
16 out of 19 reviews
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4.3
66 Reviews (66)
5 Stars
37
4 Stars
18
3 Stars
6
2 Stars
5
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.2
Layout
4.5
Pace
3.9
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.6
90.9%
Recommend this course
60 out of 66 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private/Resort
Par 72
Length 6816 yards
Slope 139
Rating 73.5

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.

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Course Details

Year Built 1992
Fairways Bentgrass
Greens Bentgrass
Golf Season Open: 3/15 Closed: 12/12
Architect Robert von Hagge (1992)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No

Food & Beverage

Bar, Snacks, Restaurant, Beverage Carts

Lodging

Lodging Available

Available Facilities

Showers, Lockers

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4.2
439 Reviews (439)
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Reviews 45
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Tough design with excellent greens

Crystal was in great shape except for two issues: The sand Traps were horrible. Little sand, and they don't look like they've been maintained. They need to use the little riding machines to grrom them and add sand. Very poor. Second issue was that on about 4 or 5 holes, the pin location did not match the pin placement chart. But the rest of the course was in great shape. Very challenging design on each hole.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Average weather
Used cart

Beautiful Course, Challenging layout

Crystal Springs is an excellent golf facilities. The course is in excellent condition. The staff is friendly and accommodating.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 14
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Nice challenge and layout

The course is a nice challenge for seasoned golfers. Fairways are tight and not flat so they make you think of the next shot always. Greens were in good shape. I would play again..3 hr drive for me. I was behind people that should not have been playing the course which resulted in a 5 hour round. Traps were not raked by anyone.

Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Interesting vourse

There are lots of houses in the course and the cart path goes sometimes between houses....The surrounding mountains are a real pleasure for the eyes.
It took us 5 hours non stop to finish the 18 holes

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Are You A Golf Adventurer?

The first time I played Crystal Springs GC it was a match against two very good golfers/members. I had never seen the course and shot 79 from the back tees to win. It took me years to shoot 79 there again (lol). That day I played conservatively from the tee, hitting 3w, hybrids and long irons to put the ball best as possible, into the middle of the biggest part of tee shot landing areas... taking longer clubs into middle of greens. Hitting a 5 iron left of green on 16 behind a huge mogul was a tough spot. I picked out a cloud to hit to, because from that spot no part of the flag was in view and flopped from the thick rough to 2 feet, straight toward the water of the back right pin., tapping for another unlikely par.
This fantastic course will challenge you every time with uneven lies, even in fairways after good shots, water hazards, beautiful design and fast, multi-tiered greens. The signature par 3 quarry hole is stunning w/ 80 ft drop. Great finishing holes with long and narrow 17th green and 3 tiered 18th green.
Crystal Springs GC is a unique gift to those who can stay patient, not too greedy off the tee and those who are looking for a challenging golf adventure.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

challenging

Course was in great shape very challenging very challenging pin placement. Great time

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Course

Course was great, one complaint is they had the sprinklers on for most of the time, my tee time was 10:30

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Not a forgiving course

I find this course dose not always reward a good shot.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Phenomenal course

Can't beat the price at this great a course when playing twilight. Would recommend to everybody

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Rates were good but wait a month to play

It's a great course but needs to recover a bit from the harsh winter this year...the greens are still pocked and sandy from aeration in Fall so putting was a bit tough.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 27
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Average weather
Used cart

Ranger issues and still aerated

Course had 6-somes allowed yes, that is 6 player combinations. Needless to say it was beyond slow. And the ranger did not do much at all stopping this. Finally got ahold of the pro-shop after I called my wife to go in and see them and a pro came out to break up at least one.

In addition, for some holes, there were two three-somes ahead of us that sometimes combined into a three some. There's a halfway house between 7 and 8 the threesome just in front of us stopped and ate lunch there. we passed them and went to next tee (8) nobody we could see on fairway up to green. So we teed off. after we had reached our balls, other threesome came to tee and got upset. We finished 8 quickly and were waiting for 9 (two groups on the tee waiting). Three some came up and started threatening several of us for playing thru them. Outright antagonistic One player in our foursome offered to let them play thru since we were waiting anyway. They wouldn't do that, instead heckling and generally being difficult. Got to 10 and they started in again. I got a ranger to come and he did nothing but did get them to play thru us again so they were with their "friends" so they could play again as a 6-some. Ranger did NOTHING else. It took 3:45 to play first 11+ holes. Finally quit and went back to front nine and swept right thru (1 hour for 8 holes).

Major leave problem and still has (like it had all year) aeration issue on greens. Nice decent course if in shape and rangers do anything but with things like this, I wonder.

Doesn't allow walking at all by anyone.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great course, tough challenge

Played here many times, greens were in bad shape. They aerated the greens way too late in the year, I would guess it was within the last couple of weeks and they're sandy, bumpy, and slow. Not sure if they'll come in smooth this year since it's already mid November and the cold is coming. But I'm sure they'll be back to great conditions next year.

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

This course is worth it if you have a golf now hot deal

Played this course in mid October and the greens were being Air rated. Also almost all the fairways were covered with leaves making it very tough to find tee shots. Other than this the course was in great shape. Great scenery, great layout, love the 11th hole. The down side of my round was a slow 4some ahead of my 4some and when I got to the 11th hole a single rider jumped in front of my group. He came out of a house and started playing, also the Rangers were driving around but they did not do anything about this or to speed up. I teed off at 1:51 and played the 18th hole in darkness around 6:30. Besides this, it was a great round on a beautiful course, I got a golf now deal for $42. I would not pay anymore than $42 for this course in the fall, however I played here once in the late morning in the summer and it was a great round. I would defiantly play here again in the spring and I would recommend it to anyone who loves golf, it's a challenging course with the front 9 as a par 37 and a lot of blind shots and thick rough however there are many opportunities to score.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 114
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 250 Contributor
First Time Playing

Challenging course

Great course, challenging holes, took some time adjusting to the "mogul" like fairways. Love the scenery especially from the second hole of the classic, a huge drop off par 3 hole. Got a great deal and enjoyed the round. Will definitely come back.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Challenging course

Despite raining the night before the course was in great shape. Played the villages and classic course. Found course to be challenging with most lies not being the same, as in flat. Beautiful scenery made the day that much better. Will play this course again. Enjoyed Classic hole 2 off the granite cliff.

Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Average weather
Used cart

Great course, difficultly is high

This is a great course. I played from the tips and it is tough. You better have a good day driving the ball otherwise your in for a long round. Greens were excellent and if you missed the green long you payed the price.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 90
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Good weather
Walked

Good course with hilly fairway

Got delay due to an outing. Front nine was slow. We cruised through back nine until hitting the wall again at 17th hole. The course is not as good as I played before. A lot of spots in fairway and rough got burned. The sand bunkers had a lot of small rocks. They could take care the beautiful course a little better.

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great track off the blacks! Stunning views!

I played as a single with a superb rental set (TaylorMade Tour Preferred irons, stiff flex, SLDR woods). Rattled round under 3 hours despite playing the last 6 holes behind a 4. Really tight driving holes, sometimes hard to see exactly where to hit it, but it's not tricked up in any way off the tees. I recommend playing the Black tees if you're a single figure player. Loved it !

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Slow day

Great great course but a 6 hour round ruins ur experience ... No rangers moveing slow players along we waited every hole and would have love to quit but we all game from a long way away .... Theres 7 courses they should let people know the course is severly backed up and put u somewhere else because for a 100$ it should be enjoyable

Value Poor
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

challenging

i like it it but you cannot do anything after the round.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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