Delaware Golf Club

Course condition: 3/5 Not what I would expect from a $60 course. Rough was very long and difficult to play from. Fairways were in decent shape. Greens were pretty good but not great. Bunkers were acceptable (which is an improvement from the past couple times I've played here)

Pace of play: 4/5 Right at what you would expect. Seems to be about impossible to tee on time here in the mornings. Usually about 15 minutes behind from my experience. Played with 3 players in approximately 4 hours 24 minutes.

Off-Course amenities: 1 urinal and 1 stall in the clubhouse bathroom. Really? Why we were late to the first tee box by the way.

Service and overall treatment from staff: 0/5 This is there this course fails the test. See below.

Arrival and first tee: Our tee time was 10:30 AM. We arrived at the course about 10:15, got held up in the clubhouse a bit and arrived at the first tee 10:36. The starter clearly looks well behind schedule with about 4-5 groups crowding the practice area. I apologize for being a bit late myself (6 minutes to be exact) and I receive a rather crappy comment and he said it will be about 8 more minutes before they can get us off. But we were not allowed to leave the first tee box without a full lecture on how WE need to speed things up and get things going when THEY are clearly the ones that either overbooked the morning or are just not keeping things timely.

Hole 5: At this point it is important to note that the group behind us is about 2-3 strokes behind. I'm greeted at the tee box by another staff, who begins to lecture us on pace of play. Paraphrased dialogue below.

Me: What is the pace of play out here?

Him: 15 minutes per hole (4 hours 30 minutes per round)

Me: How fast are we playing?

Him: *checks phone and promptly puts back in pocket. Mumbles under his breath, and gets back in cart*

We were actually 6 minutes ahead of schedule and they are clearly harassing us for no reason other than THEY are behind. I don't see this staff member for the remainder of my round.

Hole 10 and Hole 14: We continue to have similar check ins and lectures about pace of play with the original starter even though we were playing ahead of schedule. But I will note that we played the whole round in under 4.5 hours. While finishing within 5 minutes of the group in front of us.

Conclusion: This is not the way I would hope to be treated at a golf course. Not only is it embarrassing, it is also uncalled for.

We were literally harassed all day. I came to have a relaxing round of golf and instead I was meant with hostility and rudeness. Not only will I not be back but you shouldn't go either.

Very nice golf course with a long history. Very unique layout and the conditions were excellent . Highly recommend this course to anyone.

We used to play Delaware in our league But always played the senior tees. Played it yesterday from the white tees. We enjoyed our round of golf

This is not only a great bang for your buck it is quite a challenging test of golf. Course conditioned excellent…greens good. They need to encourage more repairing of ball marks. Some tough holes but golf was not meant to be easy. Plus the staff goes WAY out of their way to make sure you have a good experience

Great time, liked front side a little more than back side. Will play again!

You guys are just the best! You take such good care of your players and are always so accommodating and you do a great job keeping up w the course…even if you can’t find your ball in your rough…it is like finding a needle in a haystack for real! Haha

Pace of play was painfully slow on a Friday evening. The course layout is extremely confusing, weaving in and out of residential streets. Many of the holes feel forced and the design doesn’t make much sense. Tee boxes banged up, greens were fast.

I played the back 9, conditions were great, warm up areas (range, chipping area, putting green) we’re all phenomenal, staff was extremely friendly and everything was all reasonably priced for a course this nice that was open to the public. My only complaint is that for a first time visitor it would have been nice to have a map of the holes somewhere in the cart or on the scorecard, I did find myself struggling to find tee boxes at time and a few holes it’s impossible to see the pin or fairway from the tee box so it would’ve been nice to have a map somewhere. Other than that everything was great!

This is a classic course. This course could easily be turned into a gem with some better greens keeping. A bit overplayed and many of the tee boxes need repair and leveling. This Pete Dye layout combined with Fuzzy Zoeller touches makes for a test for any Amateur with a 8-12 hcp from the Blue Tees at 6500+. A real fun course that requires shot making. Really love this course but it needs to revaluate ending on a Par 3?