Cranbury Golf Club

Played here 1x before; remembered liking it tho is a full hour’s drive from home. Countryside vibe unlike most nearer to NYC and northern NJ. Not too tight fairway targets, not a ball eater with hazards and growth along the margins. Also not entirely lined up along people’s back yards. Staff helpful & cheerful tho it was a little hard to track down the starter…but, when he offered me chance to play solo I jumped on happily. Then immediately got behind a father/son where dad was coaching the 11 year old PGA hopeful. Dropped 4 balls practicing every shot. Made slow play seem even slower. Could have used a Ranger to police this breach of etiquette for sure on a Sat at noon, no less. Jeez. Luckily, thunder and a 10 minute deluge chased them off on #8 and after that I got into a rhythm. Nice day stolen after all considering the weather. I’ll be back.

Course was in good shape for early April, still some maintenance going on so you can tell it will be getting better. Pace was very good.

I went on a Thursday afternoon trying to sneak away for a quick round. The staff were incredibly friendly and the course layout is nice, but there were some less-than ideal conditions. The course itself was not in great shape as they are actively working on parts of it. There was one hole where there were actual bulldozers and workers in the greenside bunkers during play (FORE!). In addition, my group got stuck behind a VERY slow foursome on the front nine to the point where groups behind us started jumping holes to get ahead of all of us. There was no ranger to address the pace and it took nearly 2.5 hours just to get through nine resulting in one of the guys in my group bailing early on the round himself. On the positive side it was only $25 to walk, so it's hard to argue against that price for a decent course. All things considered, it's worth checking out again and I would imagine it will be much improved overall once the work is completed.

You can tell they really put some work into the course over the winter. A couple greens are just finishing being resodded, many bunkers were just resurfaced. Once we get some consistently nice days in a row and grass can start growing again you can tell this course is gonna be impressive.

A few things I’m not happy with about my round specifically yesterday. I was charged $50 to play a course that had its greens recently aerated. No warning before purchase, no discount. The greens were freshly punched and there were mud plugs all over the greens. BS! Also, no warning on the fact that the course was redoing multiple green side bunkers in multiple holes! We are talking mud bunkers with rocks for drainage! No warning pre purchase no discount!!! Absolute BS! Don’t play here until mid May, or early June. (Price should have. Even discounted HEAVILY. Get it together course management!)

Aerated greens made for poor play. They should tell you that on the Golf Now site.

It’s a nice course with interesting holes. But, a six hour round should never happen. They had a school tournament in the morning, yet the club house stacked the afternoon tee times which caused a log jam on every hole. There were no rangers to control the pace. Some people were skipping around the course looking for open holes. It was a chaotic at best. Not impressed with the management.