Eagle Vale Golf Course

Every time I place this course I get more and more disappointed. Conditions have drastically gone down hill over the past few years. They’re now at the point where the county courses have better tee boxes and greens. The greens were the worst greens I have rolled on in years. Dead spots everywhere, look like they’ve not been rolled in weeks. No one repairing pitch marks that look days old. Looks like the mow before repairing anything on the greens too because there are tearouts everywhere. Every put could turn into a midterm route if you didn’t spend a good deal of time trying to repair the many spots in your line that would cause a putt to go array. I can’t complain too much about the price because I got a great golf now deal, but how this course is able to charge $60 for a round on the regular is beyond me. Even with the golf now deal it was not worth the 4.5 hours to play. There are courses in every direction Shadow Lake being one of them that bring in less money but the course is always in substantially better place. Something is going on at Eaglevale though and the effort is just not there to keep the course up to the level they claim it to be. Would not recommend it. A real shame too because I’ve had a lot of fun at this track in the past.

I haven’t played Eagle Vale in probably 20 years and didn’t remember a lot of the course. Some trees have grown up a bit but the course was in great shape. The only comment that I will make is that a few tees (par 3s) are “crowned” making it difficult to find a level lie. We played later in the day and even after all of the foot traffic the greens were still rolling nicely. Several of the greens had a lot of ball marks so there are a lot of lazy golfers not taking care of things. I repaired many but on some holes you couldn’t spend that much time.

Overall course conditions are well maintained and very playable. A good challenge and fair if you do not spray your shots. The biggest improvement to be made is with the lazy golfers who need to repair green marks.

Course is typically overpriced, and only play here when there is a GolfNow hot deal. Pro shop attendant was a pretentious snob, although the starter was nice. Course wasn’t in terrible shape, but not great. Also the golf carts are absolutely terrible. 4/10 overall, would not recommend.

So they paired our 2 with another 2 which is fine. 3 people in the group are slower players just taking time with each shot which is fine. Some people play faster some play slow. We were on a 4hour 15 minute pace for the round. Group behind us was a fast playing group called the club house and the ranger came to speed us up. Which was rude because our pace was average and the course was packed. Will never play again.

I went golfing yesterday with a fellow University of Rochester student who isn’t white. We paid for everything, and we were out golfing on the course when an older man came out in his cart and parked in front of us. He demanded to see proof that we paid to play, accusing us of sneaking on the course. We both were dressed really professionally. I’ve been playing here since I was 12, and something like this has never happened before. I’m not sure if it was because my friend isn’t white, or because we both look like we’re in our early twenties, but I was really confused and upset by this. Definitely won’t be returning.