Royce Brook Golf Club

The new course layout is a lot more enjoyable to play as the new bunker having fresh sand and maintained well during rainy days. Royce brook has they greatest staff. Course is really open and the new golf carts are really comfy.

Overall a great day. It rained a little on the back nine but didn’t dampen the experience. I love the layout and the greens were nice. The rough was a little thick so you had to keep an eye on your shots.

I showed up the other day looking forward to a round on the East course which I had played many times in the past and absolutely loved it. It had been just over two years since I had played there as I no longer live in the area. When I asked about the conditions of the East course, I was told that there are no longer two courses. They had sold some of the land to a developer and had consolidated the two into a single 18 hole track. The new front nine (which was the old back nine on the West course) was fine and generally played as it once did. The new back nine was a chopped up version of the front nine on the East course and some modified holes from the front nine on the West. It felt very disjointed and it was sad knowing some of the beautiful former holes had been completely removed. The course is so new that it has not yet been updated on any GPS apps and so they recommended downloading the “Royce Brook” app to provide yardages. The problem is that the app would only update yardages for a single hole and the next time I opened the app it always showed the full yardage for the hole regardless of where I was. In other words, it stopped working. I discovered that if I rebooted the app and started the round over in that, it would work again… But only for one more hole. This led to a number of shots where I had to just guess at the yardage which was completely unacceptable. At the very least, they need to update the yardage markers on all of the new holes. On the new 10th hole which is a par five, I knew I had 200+ yards for my second shot but I had no idea if that was 201 or 250. I looked for the nearest marker which was not far and it said 50 yards which is what it was to the center of the old green. This happened on a number of holes and made it both difficult and frustrating to play. What they really should do is put GPS on the carts which requires money that they should have after the sale of the land. While the conditions on the front nine were decent, the back nine still had seams where everything was resodded and again just felt very disjointed. If you had never played it before, you might see it as a reasonable track,, but coming from a place of knowing how incredible those two courses once were… I likely won’t be back. If you do go, make sure you have a good rangefinder!!

I absolutely love what they did to the layout of the course. Presents authentic challenges that linx courses should. Firm and wide fairways that give way to narrow thick rough and tall fescue. You are penalized for missing the fairway as the greens are also firm, fast, with challenging gradients. Go here with an open mind and expect a great challenge. Can’t wait to play it again.

Course was SO SLOW, pace of play was so bad would never play here again. 6+ hour round is unacceptable.

The front nine is not in good condition, greens and bunkers were bad. Also construction and cut down trees in play.

Back nine was much better

Layout and conditions were great! Construction around course made it a littl challanging. Downfall is the starter has to be more on top of pace of play. Pace was horrible, slow players inconsiderate