Cumberland Golf Club

The course was in very good condition tee to green, and the greens were simply outstanding! Fast, smooth, and fairly hard. They had no blemishes. The course has just about everything: doglegs, elevation changes, water, and greenside bunkers. The bunkers have the best sand I've played this year.

The carts operate on gas, and they've seen a lot of miles. Ball washers are available at most tees. Drinking water stations are limited to entrances of the two funky tunnels under Ritner Highway (US 11) that are barely big enough to get a cart through. The only tees with listed rating and slope are the whites and reds. Blues (longest) and blacks (second shortest) are not listed.

I did not have any contact with the staff other than booking our tee time. Therefore, I'm not rating the staff. There is a clean, modern restaurant which we did not use; so, I'm not rating food service.

I had a very good time at Cumberland, made better by the fact I played with a nice threesome, one of whom knew the course pretty well. There are a number of interesting holes with elevation chanes, severe doglegs, risk/reward and of course the not-for-the-claustrophobic cart tunnel underneath Route 11.
The staff did not expect me, were a little unhappy a discount tee time was offered on Good Friday, but did get me out fairly promptly. While they did not overtly try to make me feel unwelcome, there was an air of that due to the circumstance regarding my GolfNow booking.