Roses Run CC: #18
View of the 18th hole at Roses Run Country Club.
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4.0
520 Reviews (520)
5 Stars
157
4 Stars
193
3 Stars
76
2 Stars
59
1 Stars
35
Conditions
3.9
Value
3.9
Layout
4.1
Friendliness
4.4
Pace
3.7
Amenities
4.1
71.8%
Recommend this course
382 out of 520 reviews
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4.4
5 Reviews (5)
5 Stars
3
4 Stars
1
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0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.6
Value
4.6
Layout
4.6
Pace
5.0
Amenities
4.8
StaffFriendliness
4.8
80.0%
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4 out of 5 reviews
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4.1
32 Reviews (32)
5 Stars
15
4 Stars
8
3 Stars
6
2 Stars
2
1 Stars
1
Conditions
3.9
Value
4.0
Layout
4.0
Pace
3.7
Amenities
4.1
StaffFriendliness
4.6
68.8%
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22 out of 32 reviews
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Course Highlights
Roses Run Country Club delivers a distinctive layout with a welcoming staff that consistently earns high praise from recent visitors. The varied course design offers a private country club feel at a genuinely accessible price point.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Style Links
Par 72
Length 6859 yards
Slope 128
Rating 73.3

Roses Run Country Club is touted as being northeast Ohio's toughest public golf course. The course has an interesting mix of holes from lengthy par 4s to tough par 3s and reachable par 5s. The front nine is a traditional links layout while the back nine hugs the Cuyahoga River with winding fairways that melt into fast, sloping greens. The layout incorporates a variety of elevation changes ranging from subtle to dramatic. There are also water hazards and strategically placed bunkers coming into play throughout. Roses Run Country Club will require some creative shot-making and the use of every club in your bag. It's a formidable layout that will test even the most skilled players. There is a driving range and practice putting green you can use for warming up, which might be a good idea before taking on this tough course.

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Course Details

Year Built 1998
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Brian Huntley (1998)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed Soft spikes only
Fivesomes Allowed No

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Meeting Facilities, Conference Facilities, Banquet Facilities
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4.0
520 Reviews (520)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 11
Patio Dining 10
19th Hole Specials 6
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 22
Water Hazards 20
Forced Carries 18
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 14
Locals 14
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 10
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 14
In the 'Burbs 9
Convenient to the City 6

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Reviews 6
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Used cart

Very Pleasant Round

Course is in pretty good condition. There are a few holes that require longer hits than my partner and I can achieve so it helps drive up the score. It was a very enjoyable round and we will probably return next year.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Response from on 08/07/2017:
Hi Thomas, thank you for taking the time to review our course, Roses Run. We appreciate the 3 star rating and helpful feedback. We are happy to hear that you had a pleasant experience, especially with our staff, layout, and conditions. We hope to see you again soon in the Cleveland area!
Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Hot weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Fantastic Course

Look forward to playing again. Now having a familiar idea of play a few holes we will play differently. Tee boxes in great shape and greens were excellent!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 41
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Bill from Akron

Roses Run is a great track, with generous fairways and large greens. The course offers a variety of shot challenges and elevations. The staff is friendly and the patio is outstanding.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Great course and quite challenging.

Longer distances than we are used to. Played poorly, but weather great and staff courteous and helpful

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Could be much better

Had played here a year ago, liked most of the holes and wanted to share it with a relative. Pace & Conditions ruined this day.

Tee Boxes (Gold): uneven, weeds and crabgrass, very long grass; #14 and #15 hit tree branches on my follow-through it was so overgrown; #13 I still don't know how i threaded the overhanging trees in an already narrow shoot

Fairways: No complaints

Rough: Uneven

Greenside: Fringe was not fringe, and made for very unpredictable chipping.

Greens: Horrible. Our entire threesome suffered all day, watching putts bounce, wobble and navigate everywhere but to the hole, save for my birdie on 18. Felt like they hadn't been rolled in weeks, and we were all easily robbed of strokes around the greens.

Pace: Waited on every shot on the front nine, which somehow included a 3-group backup on the 9th tee.

Sorry, but we don't plan on coming back.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Response from on 07/18/2017:
Hello Justin, thank you for taking the time to review our course, Roses Run in the Cleveland area. We are sorry to hear that some parts of the course may have not been in the best shape when you played and we appreciate your feedback to make further improvements. Thank you for playing with us and we hope to earn your business again soon.
Played On
Reviews 34
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Awful ....... gone downhill ....... a lot.

The course conditions were awful. Greens were slow. Velcro like! And bumpy. Fairways were patchy. Tees were full of clover.

Took 5 hours and fifteen minutes. No rangers. We had a specific tee time. When we showed up the "starter" (really a cart mover) told us to go get in line. What? No real starter. Could have been a free-for-all except the golfers were gentlemen. Ahead and behind us.

They should be ashamed. And I didn't play badly. These are not sour grapes. I played reasonably well.

I will not be back. A nice Brian Hundley designed golf course ruined by lack of attention to course conditions.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Response from on 07/17/2017:
Hello Douglas, thank you for taking the time to review our course, Roses Run in the Cleveland area. We are sorry to hear that the course conditions may have not been up to par when you played and that it was not a very smooth round. Your feedback is greatly appreciated so that further improvements can be made and we hope to earn your business again soon.
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played

Awkward

Confusing layout with poor signage between holes. Played front nine in 1 3/4 hours. They double teed the back nine. Waited on every shot. It took 3 hours for the back nine. We won't go back.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Response from on 07/05/2017:
Hello Wayne, thank you for taking the time to review Roses Run in the Cleveland area. We are sorry to hear that your round may have been slower than expected and that the course layout may have been confusing. We do appreciate your feedback and we hope you will see an improvement for your next round.
Played On
Reviews 159
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 250 Contributor
Previously Played

Scott the starter is exceptional. The course is in decent shape and has lots of challenging holes.

Since I had an 1+ hour drive I decided to golf Fairways at Twin Lakes (9 hole course) before this course. I finished much earlier than planned so I was over 2 hours early for my scheduled tee time. Scott the starter let me go off the back 9 since the front 9 was packed. It was still packed when I finished my 1st 9 so Scott let me play the back 9 again. I really appreciate such wonderful

customer service!! Now to the course. The back 9 is loaded with tough challenging holes...bring plenty of balls because you'll need them. The course conditions fairways and greens were in excellent condition. The tee boxes do need some work! Highly recommend the course.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Wet weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 18
Handicap Don't know
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

LOTS OF CHALLENGES ESPECIALLY ON THE BACK 9

I really like this course, and play it almost exclusively every year I've been in the area, about two years now.

The course is well kept, and last fall was just as good as it gets! I've only been out once this year because of all the rain. The course endured a lot of water, but was still in pretty good shape. Some tall grass in the rough, but that is to be expected as a result of weeks of continual rain. Two of the most challenging holes I've ever played, including 8 years in Florida, are the par 5 12th and par 3 17th. Man, they are difficult! Great price to play through Golf Now.com.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 85
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 26
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Worst design ever!

First and last time played. Poorly marked and distance between green and next tee box caused confusion.Many greens in poor shape. Got a good deal from GolfNow but will never play again regardless of cost as it may have been a bargain it certainly had no value

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Response from on 06/02/2017:
Hello Charles, thank you for taking the time to write a review about our course. We are sorry to hear about your subpar experience at our golf course. We’re normally known for our exceptional attention to detail, and we regret that we missed the mark. We appreciate your feedback and we hope to earn your business again.
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Memorial day

I have played the course many times- it's a fun but quirky layout.

The day I played it was extremely slow- took us 3 hours to play nine holes. After nine we called it a day.

I will try the course again later this summer

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Response from on 05/31/2017:
Hello Jeffrey, thank you for taking the time to write a review about our course, we appreciate your feedback. We are sorry to hear about the subpar pace of play, we will pass your feedback onto the appropriate department. Thank you for your business and we hope to see you again soon.
Played On
Reviews 87
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 500 Contributor
Ohio Advisor
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

Fun Day

This is an awesome course. The front is a links-style with several sweeping dog legs and the back plays more of the typical American parkland with some forced carries over creeks and views of the Cuyahoga River. I don't get to play this course often, but it is always fun and through GolfNow $26 on a Sunday morning is a fantastic deal. Pace of play was a non-issue as the forcast called for rain so people must have stayed home. Course is probably impossible to walk due to the distance between holes. This was a good day.

Although there were some smaller things that are keeping this from being in the conversation with some of the premier courses. And some of it is understandable, running a course like this requires immense amounts of funds, and with so many courses around it (Brookledge, Ellsworth, Fox Den) being city owned the funds may not be coming here.

Some of the tee boxes were mostly crab grass and clover, they weren't chewed up and green, a little weed killer may fix this? It wasn't a big issue as you shouldn't be taking a divot on the non-par 3 tees anyways. played the tips and some of the tee markers were pushed so far back on the box, that you had an uneven lie as the tee box sloped down so I had to move a bit. Also, playing with my sister, there were 2-3 holes that didn't even have red tee markers out. On 13 & 14 there are big tree limbs that stick out in front of the tee that block the shot. A few minutes with a chainsaw will fix this.

The greens on the front were unputtable, too fast, and very bumpy as they had not recovered from punching yet. The back 9 they were perfect though quick and rolled much truer. Some pins were totally inaccesable- just a few paces onto the back or front of the green with nowhere to miss or bailout. A little TLC and mindfulness of the ground crew will have this be a top 10 course in no time. What I'm picking at is the edges and I want to restate that this is an amazing layout and a joy to play. I just don't want to see it go down hill like so many other courses. Keep up the good work and I will for sure be back to play again.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Cold weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 87
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 250 Contributor
Ohio Advisor
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

May Update, big improvement in conditions

Wow, course conditions have greatly improved since last playing in April. Green were fast and firm, the fairways were hard and fast too.

This course is fun, especially the back nine, the front nine is a more of a acquired test. Too many sharp doglegs, lacks tall trees in places to defend the doglegs and houses. Because of this several holes have nets, other holes have tall hedges (preferable to nets). Houses are really visible, not that they are really in play.

This course is best for better players, it can be more penal in some areas slowing down play. Lots of forces carries, but is pretty open for the most part.

I played with my four year old after leagues went out on Thursday, it took 2:45 minutes to play the front. The starters warned us that Thursdays were the worst night to play because of the leagues. We waited at least five minutes on every tee except the ninth.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 32
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Top form

Fast greens and best rough I've played this year. I have been losing a lot of balls in the thick roughs so far this year but I finally found a course that is cutting them. Best tip I can give is assume the greens are flat and straight if you aren't sure. Most of them are.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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