About
Silver Lake Golf Course sits along Staten Island's North Shore, offering a scenic and challenging layout that is one of the five boroughs' best-kept secrets. The course has a classic layout with postage stamp-sized greens and narrow fairways. At just over 6,000 yards from the back tees, the golf course appears shorter than it plays. The tight layout demands accuracy throughout especially on the lengthier holes, of which there are several. The course offers interesting risk-reward opportunities and holes 12 through 14 are considered by locals the "Amen Corner" of the North. The entire layout will test your shot-making abilities. In addition to the challenging round, Silver Lake is known for having consistently excellent conditions with some of New York's best greens, which is why it has garnered a strong following among local players.
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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by Justinb5140 on 03/29/2026
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Our nesting pair of red-tailed hawks Photo submitted by RichardMS on 09/29/2025
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Photo submitted by LICC on 10/12/2022
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Photo submitted by LICC on 10/12/2022
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Photo submitted by LICC on 10/12/2022
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Photo submitted by LICC on 10/12/2022
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Photo submitted by u314162110941 on 08/25/2021
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Photo submitted by stevieups on 11/20/2020
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Photo submitted by u1718391002 on 11/19/2020
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Photo submitted by u1718391002 on 11/19/2020
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Beautiful Photo submitted by stevieups on 11/09/2020
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Sweeeeeeet Photo submitted by stevieups on 11/09/2020
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Hmmmm. Let’s goooooo Photo submitted by stevieups on 09/28/2020
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Before the Sun. Photo submitted by stevieups on 09/28/2020
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Fun time Photo submitted by stevieups on 09/08/2020
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Photo submitted by stevieups on 09/08/2020
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Photo submitted by stevieups on 09/08/2020
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Photo submitted by stevieups on 08/24/2020
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Beautiful view this morning Photo submitted by stevieups on 08/24/2020
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Photo submitted by Ron72 on 12/14/2019
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Photo submitted by Ron72 on 12/14/2019
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Photo submitted by EdMelee on 05/19/2019
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Photo submitted by Gregory3173983 on 04/14/2018
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Photo submitted by imauser on 11/16/2015
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Photo submitted by u000005801505 on 08/21/2013
Golfer Reviews
No leaves
$12 for full round via GolfNow awesome.
Staff did an incredible Job with the leaves .
Very professionally run
Course
Too many leaves I cant complain it's almost winter so i cant complain but if u charging top dollar than at least clear off the leaves
Great greens
Great greens for this time of year. They also do good job picking up leaves.
nice course
staff is very friendly. The fairway are wide and well maintained. Not a hard course to play.
Only complains: a couple of the holes are very wet, kind of muddy. A few holes have incline slopes, so hard to find the balls after you hit them.
Nice course for the money
Nice course and in pretty good shape for a public course. Tee boxes and fairways are a bit chopped up in certain areas but doesn't really affect play. Greens are in good shape. Excellent course for the money especially a hot deal.
Staten Island Gem of a Course
I've been playing this course for many years, I was not too happy playing 6 years ago, but since they invested a ton of money to restructure the fairways and the greens, I was impressed. the course is challenging but doable to experience and beginners. Now, I played this past Saturday and as for some players in front of me were complaining about slow play as you can imagine I was frustrated as well. I guess someone allowed a 6 person inexperience group play together. by the time we reached the 10th hole some decided to go home and some started the front 9 again, I decided to jump ahead to the 12th hole. I was not a happy camper, though I had fun the last seven holes,,
Worst back up I've ever seen
Tee time was for 9:30am. Didn't even get to check in until 10. Staff made some excuse about getting a men's club out, like that makes a difference. My car rental was due back at 4pm. You'd think 7 hours would be enough. It wasn't. Had to leave after hole 15. I won't be back.
No effort to run on time, ever.
I have played this course over 50 times. The course is in good shape. The problem, and it is a massive problem, is that Silver Lake does not even attempt to run on time. The last time I was there, they had sold tee times beginning at 6am. Unfortunately, the sun doesn't rise until 6:45am. I had the 6:45am tee time. When I got to the course at 6:30am, there were 5 groups waiting to tee off. This is typical at Silver Lake. Additionally, Silver Lake routinely lets 5 people play in a single group, which further slows things down. This would be a really solid course if management made any effort to run it on time or to manage the pace of play. Unfortunately, they don't care.
Great day despite the drizzle
The greens are back after being are back after being aerated and the course is in great shape.
Tight narrow track, accuracy a must.
Always nice coming back to the Lake where I spent many rounds playing this game. Caught sweet deal due to rain in the forecast and starting after an outing. First nine took 2 hours 40 minutes because I was playing behind two foursomes that were all at least 20+ handicappers. After the front, starter gave me the ok to replay the front to avoid slow play and finished in 1 hour and 45 minutes with my 2nd foursome. Course in decent shape but greens we're slow for Silver Lake standards. Always a great place to play and catch a meal afterwards.
Great For The Money
If youre looking for something thats affordable but still a relatively challenging course than id highly recommend Silver Lake. I've played this course a lot over the last two years and there arent many negatives to point out. Occasionally you get the pace of play issues typical of NYC courses but usually they are better than the alternatives. Course condition isnt immaculate by any stretch but this is a public course in NYC so I'd say they do a decent job considering (although you should definitely avoid playing after they aerate the greens if you can). Basically just keep your expectations reasonable and you'll have a good time here.
Tight lines
Great walking layout but that caused a lot of "Fore!" calls. The green to tee and fairway to fairway distances is close. The course is not long playing 6300 yards (though many of the Tee boxes were up) from the back. The fairways are slim and lined with trees. The greens are moderately sized with some challenging contours.
The greens looked to be punched within the last few weeks. they were a decent speed but bumpy.
The pace of play was terrible. I had an eight 22 Tee time and did not get off until almost eight 45. Then waited around for a five hour round. Need to do something.
Fantastic
Always a pleasure playing here, greens are in good shape!
Air raid in middle of day
They statred to air raid the front nine at 3pm so started on the back which was fine. U would think they would do it earlier in the morning so it wouldnt effect game play. The foursome in front of me turned around and left because of this.
So you know the course never charges the player for returning the golf cart late,, no such thing, slow play or time screw-up if is not your fault,,,