Kissena Park Golf Course

Plenty of challenges on this short course - lots of sloping fairways, blind greens up high, dog legs right and left. A very good place to fine tune your short game.

The staff are consistently very friendly and helpful.

And there are some nice views of the Manhattan skyline from the back nine and some wild foxes scattered around the course.

Overcrowded. Waited 15 minutes per hole. Left after 9 holes.

I'm shocked by these reviews. The course conditions are terrible: tee boxes are chewed to dirt, greens are mess, traps are garbage pits. It's also a cheesy par 64 with 0 par 5s and very short par 4s. I only hit driver 3 times on 18 holes and never needed an iron longer than a 7. Course layout is INSANELY tight - I had balls flying across my fairway and even tee box quite often. Pace of play was awful - went off 30 mins late and took 5 hours for 18 holes. BUT it's a quick 30 min drive from New York City, so if you're a captive urban golfer with 0 other options, it's better than nothing.

First time playing this course. They didn't let us into the course until roughly 10 minutes past our tee time and there were three groups waiting to tee off in front of us, so we did not tee off until roughly 25 minutes past our tee time. We waited on every hole we played. We finally called it after waiting 15 minutes to tee off on the 8th hole. It took us almost 2 1/2 hours to even get that far. Paying $70 for a municipal course (that genuinely was a fun layout to play) with that kind of pace was extremely disappointing. Get a ranger out there to keep things going and maybe we'll consider coming back.

Our tee time was 1136 we weren’t able to tee off until 12. We didn’t get to hole 9 until 3:30. At which point we had to leave. There were literally up to 4 parties waiting on a single tee box at any given time. Worst part is they didn’t offer a courtesy round or anything for the inconvenience. Their excuse was it’s the weekend?? BS I’ve played there many times on the weekend and this have never happened this was poor course management and lack of a ranger to help with pace of play.

Course wasn’t in bad shape. Super short par 64 course. Greens are slow and full of ball marks. Tee boxes are chewed up and uncut.

No practice/ warm up area other than a tiny putting green.

No course ranger.

Pace of play was super slow with a TON of inexperienced golfers playing military golf ( left, right, left, right)

Not my worst experience but there plenty of better options in the area.

My wife is a beginner golfer. I chose this course for her to start up her first golf outing. We spent only 3 hours to finish 18 holes.