Maple/Lake at Fowler's Mill Golf Course

What once used to be a phenomenal course is now all but gone. Maintenance is a huge issue here with a lot of overgrown weeds, uneven tee boxes, weeds over growing in bunkers, no other tee markers except the black tees, and green disease. I’m fortunate to play 18 here with a cart for only 20 dollars, which I think is a good deal if you get the same. I wouldn’t pay over $30 to play this course for being “a top 10 public course in Ohio”. Someone is being payed off to have this course in that caliber of lists. It’s a travesty that they are charging 85 dollars on weekends and 60 dollars on weekdays to play here. If you get a 20 dollar rate like I did, try it out. Other than that I would stay away.

Fowlers Mill has traditionally been the number 1 or 2 public course

in the area. Excellent Don Ross design, fantastic conditioning, good pace of play, solid range and practice greens.

No way around it, the course has really fallen off. The conditioning of the course was really disappointing to see. The greens were in sad shape, with a few touching on unplayable. The course was full of fallen, dead trees and brush. Missing signage and markers. Rotted out retaining walls and steps. Bunkers more dirt than sand. Carts were used from some other course and clunked and clanged through the round. Really disappointing for such a traditionally great course.

We've recently been trying different courses in the area and had read multiple places that this was a top course in NE Ohio but it's apparent they don't keep up with it. The greens were patchy and probably one of the worst set of greens I've played on.

We got a good deal from Golfnow for 18 but I wouldn't drive 50 minutes again to play here and would recommend other courses in the area.

So as most know, this was rated and on some websites, still rated the #1 Public course in Ohio.. Well as of 11/4, I have played on 7 different courses in the past two weeks and this was by FAR the worst one. I understand is almost off season BUT, the greens are HORRIBLE.. There are painted patches all over, and the tee boxes are moosh! (It hasn’t rained in over a week).

We weren’t allowed to go off the cart path, (if you walk off the cart path though, it’s a mooshy swamp in the rough) but if you hit the opposite side of the fairway it, you had to drop your partner off and then have them go sift through the millions of leaves all over this course.. So the pace was so slow! And there was 2 sum riding our butts the whole time (we were a 4 sum)

I just played valley of the eagles and it was MAGNIFICENT! There were workers making sure there wasn’t one darn leaf anywhere! Even the bunkers! At Fowler’s, I didn’t see one worker doing ANYTHING! Literally nothing.. if you’re playing in this nice weather we are having, I do NOT recommend.

BUT! I don’t know what this course it like in the summer! I hope ALOT better!

Gorgeous course, extremely well kept. Great views, tough greeens!

With all due respect to fowlers mill, it’s not what I imagined being the #1 public GC in Ohio. The quality of turf was impeccable besides the thread moss but it’s generally hard to get rid of. Layout didn’t blow me away. Good time no doubt, and love the par 5’s but everything in between was average. I came from playing Boulder creek thinking what could be better and I still believe Boulder had a better layout. (In my opinion)***

There was no ranger, so we were held up by a twosome for nine holes. (We were a foursome.) The greens were quick but very spotty. The rough was too long for fall play. They apparently don’t have blowers for leaves, or decided not to use them. This is WEEKEND PLAY guys! To play this course for $85.00 was outrageous! I’ll remember this on my the next trip from South Carolina to play with my offsprings.

All 27 holes are fantastic. Nothing negative to say what so ever.

Greens were in rough shape surprisingly, but everything else exceeded my expectations of this course. An excellent challenge for the average golfer or a good course for the lower shooting golfers

The only reason I didn’t a 5-star rating was because they didn’t have any hot dogs at the turn. Extremely disappointing! Beautiful golf course!

FMs layout is one of the best anywhere, however 5 hr rounds, fairways cut way too close and damaged greens are your thing then go for it. I might recommend a friend play the course, then again I may not.