Royce Brook Golf Club - East Golf Course

Past few years since property will now become a housing development for the public course, the amount of attention has gone way down. Traps are poor at best, unmaintained, greens scratchy and fairway areas burned out despite all the rain we've had, and clearly not worth the amount of money anymore. What a shame, was a premier course for many years.

The course is straight garbage and will never play there again. Every single bunker is a lake yet the parts of sand that are showing might as well be concrete. There's even algae and weeds growing in some. The rough hasn't been cut in what seems like months. The greens look like they have acne with all the divots that no one bothers to fix. The tee boxes are a nightmare. A far cry from what I've been told it used to be

Pricier for the condition. Lots of fungus on the fairways,. But the bunkers, oh my goodness. Weeds, water and dirt through out. On the plus side all had raked tho! $65 for those conditions is steep, could have played Neshanic for a few bucks more. Find another stop IMO.

I have always enjoyed Royce Brook, a nice track in a quiet location. The public course is nice, but there has been no sand in the MANY sand traps all season, plus there has been water in many of them for months- not good. We realize half or more of this course is closing down because of the housing development they unfortunately agreed to, but really, how much does sand cost?!? They took a great course and made it difficult to enjoy with these rock hard or flooded traps

Royce Brook has two courses the East which is public and the West which is private. Played the East course today. Staff was very friendly and we played as a twosome which was appreciated. This was our first time playing this course. The overall layout of the course and holes was quite good. The fairways, rough and greens were very nice. Pace of play was ok. We played behind a foursome that was a bit slow but playing as a twosome we expected to wait on some holes and shots.

However we have never seen or played on a course that had sand traps as poorly maintained as the ones on this course. The traps were filled with dirt with weeds and water and have seemed to never been raked which was a shame because the placement of the bunkers was excellent and if cleaned out and filled with proper sand (as is done on the West course) this course could be really nice.

Additionally there are no hole yardage markers on the tee boxes, no map of the holes on the scorecard, there was no drinkable water on the whole course and no cart came around. Stopped at the halfway house for drinks and snacks and it was closed.

This course has a chance to be really nice if they cared about making some basic improvements but it seems like they don't.

This is not the course I remembered; the sand bunkers and immediate area are not well maintained at all. They should be called MUD bunkers. Edge of bunkers not maintained at all, overgrown with weeds. Not worth the money and will not play there again

The sand traps are filled with weeds and standing water. There are no ball washers, trash receptacles, or water jugs. The fairways and greens are nice, but the rest of the place is run down

The bunkers are as bad as the other reviews say. They turn into pools. Pace was horrible. No marshals out at all. They ran out of golf carts so we got held up starting.

Really fun layout and good fairways. Bar and restaurant were super nice too. Would go back if it was cheaper. Can’t justify spending $95 for the state of the course though

Horrible conditions. I tried to contact the course management and no response.

The bunkers are never tended here. Theyre basically lakes. 95 bucks for that is crazy

Sand traps were filled with water and weeds. A ripoff for $95. I’ve played here before and it was much nicer. Something’s going on there. Super slow round. 5 hours.

Should’ve listened to prior reviews and cancelled our tee time. Course has terrible conditions (tee boxes chewed up, bunkers look like they haven’t been kept up in years). Another sign was there were no other morning tee times booked/we were only ones out there. Definitely not worth what we paid and won’t be returning

Sand traps were terrible. No drainage and overgrowth around all traps. No one at the pro shop. Not worth the price.

Course had a great layout but EVERY single bunker was full of water anx unplayable, some tee boxes either had a fungus or weeds sprouting up. Also the nats were out of control, need to throw some pesticides down. My playing partner and I were guessing the shortcomings came from a lack of funding.

The course has good fairways and greens. The sand traps are filled with water and where the traps are low with water, there is no sand.