Silver Lake Golf Course

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.

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.

The greens are back after being are back after being aerated and the course is in great shape.

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.

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.

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.

Always a pleasure playing here, greens are in good shape!

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.

Great place to play with your buddies add a very reasonable rate ! Staff is friendly and accommodating. The course is always in great shape!

Course was in good shape they sent us off the back 9 beacase they where air raiding the front. Just wish they did that lter in the day so it didnt effect my game.

The course was in good shape, although they were repairing a few greens on the front 9.... so had to deal with a few temporaries. I played by myself after a tournament ended and flew through 18 in just about 2 hours!!!

Overall, i thought the greens were in good condition. I am a beginner but i thought we could have used rangers more to assist other beginners to pick up or drop their ball and move on to improve pace of play.

Otherwise, layout is what i remembered, and I thought the condition was better than last year, probably due to more rain.

We arrived for our Tee time scheduled for 9:15 am and as we checked in we were told that there was a 30 minute backup to tee off. They were not apologetic in the least, it seemed as if this was normal. We actually did not tee off until 10:15 a full hour after our scheduled time. A foursome who started on the back had to squeeze in to the backup as well.

With this backup, we waited 5-10 minutes every hole on the front 9. Knowing the above foursome would be leaving, we hoped the back 9 would start moving. However, the threesome in front of us ended up almost a hole and a half behind the group in front of them and there was no ranger to tell them to pick up the pace. With the course so backed up you would think that they would be concerned with keeping it moving.

Between the hour wait and the 5 hour round we were at the course for 6 hours which is completely unacceptable. I will not be returning.

It was hot but everything else yesterday at Silver Lake on Staten Island was pleasurable.