Raccoon Valley Golf Course

played here on a saturday and was not a good time due to the pace of play. Golf now had a great price of $9 on a Friday 7:40 a.m. t-time and it was far better.

This course has it all. Lots of mature trees, interesting holes, ponds, hills, sculpted greens. Our Golfnow fee was so low that the value was off the charts.
On the other hand, over half the traps were dirt/weeds, the ponds were covered with green algae, and there was a general lack of maintenance that would discourage any trendy golfers.
Since we are not trendy we had a blast and look forward to playing it again.

I booked this course for the holiday weekend over Labor Day weekend. I saw a hot deal to golf 18 holes with a cart for $15. I just couldn't pass it up. I don't play very often (4-5 times a year) and I enjoyed the course. It is challenging enough because the fairways aren't too wide. The greens were challenging to read. The only problem I had was the greenside bunkers looked more like hazards. I tried once to hit my ball out of the sandtrap and it was like concrete the hit out of. The rest of the day if my ball landed in the bunker, I took a free drop because they have grass in the greenside bunkers and it was hard as a rock to hit out of. However, since I don't play very often and for the price, I just had to play it.

The course was in overall good condition other than the bunkers have zero sand in them and some soft spots with standing water. Nice pace for a Sunday morning.

Great greens, fairways good and lots of character to each hole. Don't worry about the sand traps as it looks like they are letting many go to grass. Watch for exit sign, not direct access from 161, or get updated garmin.

This course is one of the most beautifully scenic course I've played, lots of hills and trees, but wide open enough that u can drive the ball 15-20yds of center and still have decent shots. It has elevated green and elevated tee boxes and I felt for the most part that there is a lot of variety in the 18 you'll play here. It features an over 600 yd par 5. Only con to this course were the series of blind tee shots where the greens are somewhere over the next hill. Keep track of where the players ahead of you are as it's easy to lose track. Overall I will be going back again for sure.

Great course for the price (paid $12). I played the front 9 alone in just over an hour, caught some groups on the back but they kept pace and I was done in about 2.5 hours. They have a 666 yard par 5 that was fun...pretty much all the fairways are open and roll forever. The greens were a bit tricky, but after a few holes you got used to them. Staff was young but friendly.

This is a course that has a nice layout. Well defined fair ways by trees and greens were in great condition. The fair ways were kind of poor condition and bunkers were unplayable. Just needs tlc. Over not that bad and would play it again for 14$

the staff is excellent, the cousre is alittle rough with cart tracks all over the place.

Nice property, pleasant views, pathetic golf course. Sand traps full of weeds, no sand. Greens not much better, never again.

This is by far the worst course I've seen or played at in my 15 years in Columbus. Luckily for me I didn't have to pay to play there (company outing). I don't think they own a fairway mower or have a head grounds keeper that knows how to grow grass. Every tee box was 85% mud/dirt with a few blades of grass here and there. Not 1, I repeat not 1 fairway was mowed and it looked like it hadn't been done in over a week. You honestly couldn't tell if you were in the fairway or the rough. The bunkers (if you can even call them that) were a complete joke. I think there was more grass growing in the bunkers than the tee boxes. The greens themselves were in horrible condition as well. Every green had 4-5 ball marks that weren't even repaired. One of the craziest things I've every seen.I even saw a guy playing in cowboy boots!!! The course themselves couldn't even pay me to play there again.

Not a bad course at all, but the bunkers are in terrible condition. The day we went they had an outing I believe for inconsiderate first time players. It took us (2 players in a cart) just over 5 hours to play! Other than that I would play the course again.

would recommend this course to friends some fairways give way to slices but mostly you have to hit a straight ball or be in the trees. water comes in play on several holes but in all a great course

I enjoyed playing at Raccoon International and found the course well maintained with some challenging holes; especially the 17th which is 666 yards from the blue tees and 512 from the red tees. This is definitely a course I would play again.

The greens had ball marks all over them. Most traps had no sand in them. The fairways were very hard and difficult to hit from.

Course conditions were poor and not maintained well. The fairways were hard-panned in alot of areas as though there was flooding of the course particularly on the back nine. Although I've played there in the past and enjoyed the course, I left there this time with the intention of not playing there again for another year at which time I hope the course conditions would be corrected.

The course has nice rolling terrain but that's about the best I can say. There was no sand in the bunkers and the T boxes were in bad shape. Then, even though the course was backed up they were sending people off the back 9 on front of people making the turn.
Sorry to see Raccoon in such disrepair. I last playing it about 15 years ago and was not expecting to see it on such bad shape.

Played on July 12. Wet, wet conditions. Should not have been open. Standing water or soaked fairways through out. Course will not likely recover soon from the greed of opening under these conditions. If my only option for playing were this venue, my clubs would be on Craigs List..........

Played it for the first time this season. Wont play again. Fairways are in terrible shape. Skip this one if you can, it'll be awhile before its good again.

Overall the fairways and rough were great. Greens average. Sand traps were in poor condition. This was my first time playing the course and the course lacked signage which made it difficult in between holes. Overall the course was in fair condition and a great value.

There were several slow playing groups in front of me. I played by myself. The staff was great. The owner/manager (?) came out when I was on 10 tee box and handed me a free round of golf for my wait. He then invited me to skip over the slow playing groups to the 17th and then come back. It was a generous offer from him as I expected a delay to begin with.

I can tell there has been a lot of work on the course recently. I'll be going back to enjoy the course again.