Elks Run Golf Club

I have booked on line to play Elks Run several times the past several years & never had an issue. This year I booked via Golf Now & had a terrible experience. I booked a “hot deal”

on line that was supposedly better than calling the pro shop. The “hot deal” charged me $59.99 for each players (booked a foursome) plus a $14.04 “convenience fee”. It was anything but convenient. They immediately charged my credit card $254. Had I called the pro shop to book the tee time we would have gotten the $49 senior rate & no “convenience fee”. Golf Now cost us $58 MORE than calling for a tee time. One of the players in our foursome had to cancel due to a conflict. So we ended up being a threesome. We cancelled more than 48 hours in advance. 2 days after we played Golf Now has yet to reimburse me $64 for the cancelled 4th player. Using Golf Now was a total rip-off.

Course was slow play out of the gates. Take 5 to 6 holes for pace of play to become acceptable.

The 2nd hole par 3 seem to bog the pace of play down

For a normal rate of about $75, we got a rude starter, unbelievably slow play (no marshall), no beverage cart until the 17th hole, and a DJ with his Hummer parked next to the 10th and 12th teeboxes with music blasting across the course for our final 11 holes which took nearly 3 hours. The carts have GPS that will stop the cart if you enter "restricted" areas which apparently include cart paths and coming within 20 yatds of the No Carts Sign.

This used to be my favorite place to play, but with the outrageous greens fees (they still call themselves a championship course) and slow play, no one in my foursome have plans to return.

Greens were beat up, but other than that, it was in mostly good condition

There were no carts ready for our 3pm tee time, we had to wait for a group to return from their round and grab one that had little juice left.

The greens were in not in great shape. For the price of the course, I'd expect better conditions.

Course was fine and was very pleasing to the eye. Good combination of holes that required precision shots with holes that were wide open. A lot of the bunkers though were full of weeds and crab grass. The free relief for ground under repair was great but definitely took away from the overall aesthetic of the course.

Several bunkers under repair, greens bumpy and number 4 has a ground hornet infestation making it rather uncomfortable and borderline dangerous to putt on. For full price rounds, should be better kept as it was in the past. Pace was ok, starter gave preference to members to play through which was an interesting touch.

This place used to be one of the nicer courses in Cincinnati. Prices are among the highest in the area yet there are multiple burnt out greens with more bumps and divots than an acne riddled teenager. They send groups out 8 minutes apart causing 6hr rounds. Zero ranger help. SHRINK THE GAME

Elks run was in amazing shape for the middle of July and peak of golf season! Elks run provided a challenging yet enjoyable course. Multiple holes are surrounded with running creeks and bodies of water to make approach shots challenging.

I’ve played at Elks Run numerous times, I love the course. We had an 8am tee time, and our round started off fairly slow. So after waiting on almost every tee box on the front 9 we decided to stop at turn and grab some food & drink, thank goodness we did as that separated the group in front of us. As we finished up on 12 an older gentleman who was monitoring pace was incredibly rude to my friends and I. As he wagged his finger at us and asked us “to pick up the pace” we fired back at him about how we had waited at almost every tee box until the back 9. He was beyond rude and being a grumpy old man. We were playing as fast as the group in front of us allowed. A message to the owners, whoever was controlling the pace of play Sunday the 14th needs to be fired or demoted to another position. If this would have been my first time playing here, I’d probably never come back. The Starter and staff inside were FABULOUS. The old grumpy man who was controlling pace of play doesn’t know how to effectively operate under his job title.

The course conditions are inverse to the current pricing...if you pay their normal greens fees, you're paying way too much, course has gone decidedly downhill in recent times, bunkers are a joke, with highly amusing rakes in position to rake.....weeds ? I would recommend to a friend, but only if they can get a really good deal on fees. Otherwise, spend your money elsewhere.

The course was in good condition. We went off very early so no pace of play issues. For a weekend rate of almost $90, I’d expect sand to be in bunkers and overall better bunker conditions.

For a $90 course there should not be grass in the bunkers and burnt spots on the green. The greens are heavily spotted from ball marks. The grounds crew needs to do better. This course is played a lot but they need to keep up with maintenance.

We started on the back which was a challenge having not played here in over 10 years. The greens and layout on the back require local knowledge to play well. The front 9 is as enjoyable as it gets, enough challenge with some great shot values.