River Marsh Golf Club - Hyatt Chesapeake Bay

Great layout great staff horrible course maintenance horrible pace of play

Will be back. Well wOrth the money. Greens and fairways in grn shape.

Front nine beautiful, 10 to 15 average, 16, 17, 18 excellent. Bunkers everywhere and all perfectly raked and maintained. My ball found a lot of them especially off drives. Very generous fairways for drives under 200 from white. Staff suggested White tees regardless of level at start and that was good advice. Fairways soft on day we played so course played long with not much roll. Some invasive unmowed crab grass in middle of back nine fairways. Many tee boxes showed a lot of play and marker locations need to be moved around more often. Ladies tees well forward making play easier. Overall a beautiful course especially the front nine, but 10 to 15 fairways and average tee boxes pull it out of the top tier where I play.

This course is laid out very well, great sight lines, and you rarely see other holes from the hole your playing. The course was very wet the day I played but was in good shape none the less. I played by myself and played through one group so pace of play was great. Great finishing holes!

The course has wide fairways but trouble comes into play on your approach shots to the greens.

The good: The course was awesome. Great layout. Tons of fun. Beautiful views. Challenging enough for me (12ish handicap) but still fun for my fiancee (her 5th or so time playing ever). So they do a great job of setting the very front tees in places where beginners can play from.

The bad: For a "high end" course, I expected the conditions to be better. The first fairway was probably the roughest. The mixture of heat, humidity and rain obviously did a number on this course. Working at a golf course in the past, I understand that there's only so much a grounds team can do sometimes. However, for a place that sells itself as a golf resort, it was still disappointing. It might have just been a seasonal thing in mid-August but I can only attest to the time I played it.

Weather has gotten to the course a bit which made greens a bit slow. The course is over priced but it comes with a beautiful resort.

Nice layout, well bunkered and challenging greens. A few fairways suffering from this summers heat and greens were pretty slow (not cut to protect from the heat) but in decent shape. Will play again in the fall to see if fairways improve.

Course was in good condition overall but the pace was slow

Course was challenging but fair. Greens had been aerated and a little bumpy but they should be great in a couple of weeks.

Made a tee time through Golf Now. Must have missed the " aeration" note. When we arrived at course were advised course had been aerated and only 9 holes were open so we had to play the back twice.Nevertheless we had a good time and enjoyed the curse especially holes 17 and 18. The pro shop was kind enough to give us a free makeup round for later in the year to compensate for today's conditions.

We will come back in the summer to play again.

The staff was excellent. Allison helped us out with only three golfers and Caitla [hope that is spelled correctly] was great with the after round beers. Very windy but the course was in great condition for Jan. Asst. pro was right on time with our carts and got us right out.

This facility makes for a wonderful golf experience. It's a country club for a day type of golf. The course offers variety in its design and a very fair but challenging test of golf. There's risk reward on both nines. I haven't seen a better sunset then the view off the 18th in all of Maryland. It is always a great experience playing here. The staff is friendly and very accommodating. With the low cost offers in golf now this is a must play.

Very friendly staff,course in great shape for December,will be back soon

For December the course is in great condition. Tee boxes, fairways and greens are all in good condition. The course is interesting with a few challenging tee shots from the backward tees. 17 is fun with a long water carry from all but the ladies tees.

Great course! Well maintained, any player can enjoy it as long as the play the right tee's.

Course was in perfect condition when I played (last week of October). The course is absolutely beautiful. It was a fun course but a challenging course at the same time. It makes you pay for errant drives as you can easily go OB on a few holes or end up in rough which is pretty thick. If you are ever are in the area or staying at the resort you have to play here. Since I played on a weekday during the fall I was able to finish both rounds in under 3 hours. Advice for hole 8: DON'T miss right. It doesn't seem like it from the tee but you will be wet if you miss by more than a yard to the right. If anything leave it short because the bunker on the left is tough.

Played the course with my friends. played for $51 through golfnow. The par 3's are challenging because I think all of them were over 200yds.Btw, we played from the back tees. The one gripe I have is that the bunkers had too much sand. When you step into a bunker and your feet are emersed before you dig in, there's a problem. Other than the bunker the course is definitely worth playing.

Despite seeing several marshalls throughout the course they mostly sat there when they could have kept the golfers moving. Lots of slow play and golfers hitting multiple tee shots. I think they could have sped play up some.

This place is first class all the way. Fantastic conditions and great layout. Tee boxes were better than a lot of greens I've putted on some other courses.
Well worth the drive and money!