Golf Club at Mansion Ridge

This course presents with many interesting and challenging holes. The layout was well-designed and the staff extremely helpful. We spent a beautiful Saturday afternoon at this great course. We will be back:)

we did 12 holes in 4 hours, and left, haha!

great course, and well maintained.

extremely slow play with no rangers on the course to keep pace at all. Starter was a nasty old man who needs to be replaced.

I booked a round online (as did 3 other single, for the same time). We arrived right as a shotgun outing was teeing off. The course sent us out anyway...we got through 12 holes in literally 4 hours. Then a women's night league came out to the back 9 and told us we needed to get off the course. We found a ranger (Mike, who's also the assistant pro), who then told us we should not have been able to book our tee time in the first place and that the website made a mistake.

This is curious because the websites only offer times made available by the course. In addition, I booked 3 days ahead of time--the course could have called that morning to explain and apologize, but didn't. He made no effort to allow us (now down to a twosome) to play on, but instead told us to follow him off the course. He could not have been less apologetic, and placed the blame solely on the website--he almost made it sound like our fault for booking. He begrudgingly gave us a "rain check," which only replaces a round I've already paid for, but does nothing for the major inconvenience, rudeness, and complete waste of a day (again, 12 holes in 4 hours). I could have played elsewhere had we been informed, but that would have taken some effort from the staff, which is asking too much.

The staff is generally unfriendly here but this time was almost impressive in how inept and unconcerned they were for their customers. Which sucks, because it's a nice course and generally in decent shape. But you can find other similarly nice courses in the area in the same price range with a friendlier and more competent staff. I encourage you to do so.

The course was in good condition except for many unfilled divots. I have to say the course is challenging but fair on most holes. However, the number one handicap is a true Bear. The layout was very scenic and beautiful. The one big knock is that the play was very slow. Our round took over 5 hours. I believe there were quite a few golfers playing from tee boxes beyond their games. It would have been much more enjoyable round if this were well monitor by ranger.

Green and fairway are really nice!

The course layout is fantastic. It's not terribly long, but the sight lines, and rolling fairways are very challenging.

The course is open all year, and very heavily played. The course super is a really nice, very sharp guy who knows his business. His challenges are a clientele who does not take care of the course ( the greens are filled with ball marks, fairway divots not replaced), and the volume of players, coupled with the shortage of manpower make keeping up tough. I will say that given the challenges the greens keeping crew faces they do an excellent job. Management could help this crew out if they gave them more resources (people, better equipment) to work with to keep the course in tip-top shape. It's worth saying again, this greens keeping crew works their tails off and they do a great job. There is no visible attempts by the course management to promote care of the course by the members of public which is a huge detriment given the extremely high volume of golfers..

The operations staff - Head and assit. pros, golf shop staff, bag attendants and starters - are a terrific bunch. You get a warm greeting every time you arrive. They could use more support from management, in the form of more help, and more training to help them get the job done. It's impossible for the number of people they have working to keep up with demand. Sadly, management of the club doesn't see this as important.

The course is a revenue driven club, which makes it hard to understand why they don't invest a larger on-course presence of rangers. It is not uncommon to be on the course for nearly 6 hours on a weekend.

Mansion Ridge could be one of the best courses in the area if they had a general manager who was more in tune with the clientele. The current GM is happier in his office then out communicating with his guests. In fact the guy is one of the problems at the club. I had only a couple of run-ins with him and he was condescending, disrespectful, and uninformed. It's beyond me why Troon, who I have been a fan of for a while, would hire someone for this great club who is not a pragmatic, people person.

I hope Troon makes four simple changes to make this club great again.

1. Better support for their outstanding greens keeping team.

2. A larger, more aggressive ranger program on the course to move the pace along and enforce better care of the course.

3. More staff and resources for the front of house operations so they don't have to kill themselves trying to get the job done..

4. A GM who is a relationship builder both in the club and with the public.

If Troon does these four simple things Mansion Ridge will be the only place to play in the region.

I'm happy to drive an hour to play here. It looks like a country club, but is open to the public. The conditions are always great and the pace is decent (4.5 hours). Plenty of water, sand and trees to challenge you, but not so difficult where you won't want to come back. Bar and grille was also very nice afterwards.

Nice price for midweek. Pace was great. L

This course is in great shape. My only complaint is the sand, very thin and not a good texture. Beyond that the course is great. Greens are smooth and quick and fairways are like velvet. The layout is not my favorite but that's a personal preference. Tough carries for average golfers.

I've recently discovered this course and it's been my go-to course in the area. Love it. Fairway and greens are in good condition and the thing I like the best about this course is the layout. It's really fun and I get to use most of the clubs in the bag.

Greens were slow and bumpy in spots. Many ball marks were not repaired. Course just gets too much play I guess. Sprinkler system has been a problem and remains so. Spots were ridiculously wet where some sprinkler heads were located. Course is difficult but fun. For the money it's a good play.

It's a real treat to play a course as nice as Mansion Ridge because it can be expensive. Finding a tee time on Golfnow that is half of the regular price makes it possible. We thoroughly enjoyed our round.

course is very scenic but fairways are full of divots and green are loaded with ball marks. don't know that a ranger would help since there are long, substantially uphill walks back and forth to carts...maybe open up some of the fairways??

I have always liked Mansion Ridge, but yet again, the bunkers were an issue. It did rain the night before, so they were all washed out and hard like concrete. The tee boxes, the greens, and the fairways were all in good shape. It's not an easy course, and the layout is awesome.

Pros: Fantastic conditioning. Tees boxes were awesome, fairways were very good, greens were very good. A challenging course for low handicaps from the tips, but it is also forgiving and fun for beginners. Driving range and other practice facilities were very good, and range balls were included in the green fees. Carts were very nice, and staff was very friendly as well.

Cons: Bunkers were not playable. Pace was also an issue, as it was almost a 5 hour round on a weekday afternoon.

Overall, a very good course. I will be back and hopefully pace will be better next time.

I play between 20-30 public courses a year, and mansion ridge is one of the if not the best public golf course I have ever played. A challenging, yet fair course, at a reasonable price, is manacured to perfection, and is perfect for any golfer. This course if long, with many force carries, and the greens roll quick, but they are fair. The only complaints I have is that the traps were in terrible shape, and that the range was short and could use updated golf balls.

I would recommend this course to any and every player. If you are in the area, make sure that you make your way to mansion ridge.

Great layout and course conditions. At over 6800 yards in the mountains, this long track plays even longer on some holes. Too bad most people who play here play from the wrong tee boxes. Blended with short par 3's, this place is fair and scoreable. For advance players, it's a second shot course. With Jack's design here, I used all my clubs today which to me has a variety of holes that play differently. Staff is friendly and definitely worth the drive if you're from or near New York City.

Course has a great layout and is challenging. Very scenic and tee boxes fairways and greens were in above average shape. It was also refreshing to find a course in the area that gives a complimentary range. My only complaint is the back nine took 3 hours and during this time I did not see one ranger to push the pace of play.

Great course, great value