Dyker Beach Golf Course

Really enjoyed my round at Dyker -- place was in great shape. Excluding a few tee boxes on the back 9 -- views are wonderful, I went out early so I got a head of the older players but wouldn't mind spending more time here. The title says it all … i'll go back.

The course was in pretty good shape after the harsh winter we had. Still see some evidence of airation but that will go away. Great pace of play. I will chalk that up to the 6:15 tee time we had.

This course has great feature.
I been played so many time
Every time challenge.fun.

The course is really well maintained, and has several challenging holes. Really good for a NY muni course, my favorite one in the ny metro area.

Early spring and it's great to be back on the course. Even though the course is still recovering from a long difficult winter,, playing at this time of the year can be fun. The trees are not yet in full bloom so the course appears wider and more forgiving. The fairways had just been aerated, so no roll on fairway. This requires a different approach and strategy That can make it feel very much like a different course.

The course had several provisional greens and atleast a dozen aerated greens. I received no pre-notification of the conditions and we paid FULL PRICE.
...FAIL

It took 3hr and 15min to play 9 holes. We paid for 18 holes and only got to play 9 . We had scheduled a 12:12 tee time and got to the course at 11:45. Our group stood on the 1st tee for at least 45 min. before we could too off. The course really could use a starter and course marshall to speed up play and keep things moving. There was at least a 15 to 20 min wait on each of the first 6 holes. After the 6th wait time was only about 10 min. . I would not play this course again.

This course is wide, flat and well maintained so it is good for practice. But it was crowded in weekend.

Played a couple of rounds on weekends.

Pros:
* Easy to get to by train
* Good greens -very fast (and less break than you read)
* Moderately Challenging (no water in play, but some long holes and greens guarded by bunkers that are decently maintained)

Cons:
* 5+ hour rounds (atleast on Weekends)
* Dry fairways and greens (means tough to control the distance even from fairway and certainly from around the greens)
* No driving range
* No walking pull carts for rent

Overall, it is kept in better condition than other public courses in NYC (which have the same 5 hour round problem). So overall, i would recommend Dyker.

Beware : the greens are faasst! I took 8-10 holes to get used to it.

If someone from Dyker is reading, please get a ranger and enforce pace of play!

Plan on 4-5hr time on weekday and 5-6hr playtime on weekend. Most of the par 3s (holes 4, 8, 17) + hole 3 are bottle necks. But that's because its the little jewel of Brooklyn. The course is well maintained. Almost a year since Hurricane Sandy hit, and I don't see any evidence of damage. The fairways are quite wide and open for most holes, making the course quite forgiving. The sand traps are fairly well maintained... some are great, only a few a little bare. The only improvement i would ask for is to install a safety net on hole 9. You are shooting at a straight par5 from an elevated tee box. On the left side is the street and sidewalk only blocked by a 8-9foot fence. Being a lefty, I can't even begin to tell you how many balls I've sliced out there.

-Dmitriy T.

Compare to "other" golf course in the area, this golf course is in much better shape and much better value and the staffs are very friendly

Pleasant setting and design - days of bodies (vehicular or human) in the bunkers and fairways are gone. Decently maintained with clueless grounds crew - they roll greens as you try to putt! Pace of play is ugly. One of first groups off in the morning and it was still a 4.5 hr round. For those coming later, I shudder to think... Historic track I wanted to play - done and no desire to repeat.because of pace.

Played over the weekend so it was packed and it took just over 5 hours. Course needs some work; one or two of the greens were 'beaches' with very little grass growing on them. That said, this is one of the few subway-accessible courses from Manhattan and that bumps up the rating for me. The price also works for me considering the overall costs of getting out to a NJ or LI golf course from the City.

Front nine greens were pretty beat up. Back nine much better. Course gets a ton of play and its noticeable throughout the course. For the golfnow price cant really go wrong.

Dyker used to be a real nice course and a joy to play. The conditions werent good, The greens were half dead and the rough and fairways need to be cut and needs other attention. The tee boxes were all chopped up and dirt piled divots or dead. The pace of play was horrible! There was a very slow foursome in front of us through the round and we never saw a ranger to help speed up play. even after a complaint. The round took 5 and half hours Was very dissapointed.

The course is challenging and fun to play. Tee boxes were in good shape, and minus lazy people not fixing their ball marks, the greens were in great shape!
Still it is a public course, that is over populated with a lot of people who I wouldn't describe as good at golf. For that reason you get major back ups and a lot of small annoyances like unraked sand traps and greens full of ball marks.
For me, that drastically drives down the value of your round. I feel like $70 for a weekend round is far too expensive. But that is what you pay at any of the NYC public courses, and this is still by far my favorite. So what can you do...?

Not a bad track for being so close to the city. It's not difficult and good for beginners, hence the long round. Conditions are good for a public course with nicely kept greens. There should be Marshall's to speed up play, but at least they have a cart girl!

Dyker Beach was a nice course. One of the best maintained public courses I have ever played. Has some tough par 3's and a couple long par 5's. Waiting on tee boxes was bit of an issue from about the 8th hole on which really can mess with your rythem. Other than that nice course

If you stay in the fairway, you have a great chance at shooting the round of a lifetime. The fairways are wide open for the most part. Rough is not difficult to get out of. Greens are quick and very well maintained at the moment. Tee boxes are reasonably clean. Fairways are reasonably clean as well.

I played yesterday, Saturday July, 6th. There was absolutely nobody on the golf course which resulted in a very, very quick round. I took my time as there was no one behind me or in front of me and it was about 90 degrees in the open. Plenty of water breaks.

Staff was great, rangers kept me company as I was the only one within 5 holes of me. Gave me advise and shot the breeze. The 3.5-4 hr round is not normal and was told to me they have never seen anything like it. I just got lucky. Listen, all courses in the Manhattan commutable area are going to be packed. There is nothing you can do about it. THat being said, this is a nice course and I will be certainly be visiting it in the near future.

Nice course friendly staff, drink cart came around often, a bit busy but to be expected on Father's Day.