Wild Turkey Golf Club

Cold weather, but a great course to play anytime with great customer service.

To pay $70 and play a course that has no starter or has not done a single piece of course maintenance in clearly more than weeks.

CLOSE the course if you aren’t going to maintain it.

Couldn’t get 12 holes in, in four and a half hours just sad. ☹️

The advertising during televised golf events in the NY area, makes this place look incredible. Congrats on the production company who put it together. You hooked us. But the let down, when reality hit, was painful.

Keep in mind we arrived an hour before our start time, which was before 9am. Everything should have been ready to go, and in good shape. It was not, and chaos seemed to be everywhere, including golfers coming off the course complaining that there were no flags on some greens.

Good:

-The course itself has some interesting moments in design, particularly holes 5-9, and 12-17

-The starter was kind and professional

Bad:

-$120 green fees, when it's worth maybe $60

-Bag Drop staff in the early morning were polite, but not very friendly/welcoming clear about procedure for new customers. Afternoon staff were more customer service oriented, but the damage had been done already, and there was nothing they could do to salvage our opinion

-Bag Drop filthy, disorganized

-Golf Cart filthy, covered in old grass, and seats wet with morning dew

-Pro Shop staff disinterested and clearly OVER IT

-Driving range short on baskets for balls

-Driving range mats in decent shape, but the slots for tees were shredded, so no opportunity to put tees in proper slots for driver warmup

-Balls included with green fee, but you only get about 25/30

-Grass clippings left all over rough and fairways, so greens COVERED in clippings

-Greens not cut or rolled

-Bunkers rock hard (5 days after heavy rain)

-Most rakes for bunkers are broken, bent, or missing teeth, and they're the small rakes, so it takes twice as long to rake any bunkers

-Didn't see the marshal until the 18th green, after a 5hr15min round that started BEFORE 9am, because the group ahead of us, WITH three carts for 4 players, was brutally slow, and was at least two holes behind the group in front of them

-Maintenance staff not paying attention to golfers on the course trying to hit into greens

-Maintenance staff forgot to put tee markers back on at least 6 of 18 holes, after cutting, and with elevated tees relative to the cart paths, we had lots of trouble figuring out where our tees were

This is a public resort with a semi-private membership base, that allows public play. Members think they own the place, and rip up fairways with their custom golf carts with studded tires. Management needs to require certification of privately owned golf carts for use on this course. Members also refuse to abide by the facilities' rules regarding first tee times, to the point where members tee themselves off and end up running into the back of maintenance teams trying to maintain upkeep.

The staff is exhausted from an extremely busy season, and likely being abused by an entitled membership base that barely pays $7K for 5 golf courses. The greedy ownership/management is solely responsible the poor morale, likely due to staff being overworked, unappreciated, unrewarded, unrecognized, and disrespected. They hammer in too many golfers, too many weddings, too many corporate events, and they even have a music festival scheduled this Saturday, in addition to two weddings and 500+ golfers. Good luck finding parking, so prepare yourself for a shuttle bus.

Starter raved about Ballyowen as the gem of the place, so we will be back for that golf course, not the resort, the amenities, or the service. And we'll try to get the first time, so we can play a reasonably paced round.

The Wild Turkey, one of the female golf courses at Crystal Springs an amazing challenge for all skills levels along carries for the boys playing from the tips. Manageable from the other tees greens. Fabulous undulating fairways undulating greens lotta character wonderful sisters absolutely fabulous conditions the staff of foreign nine wonderful, fabulous reception. Look forward to enjoying any of Crystal Springs courses again thanks very much ciao

Greens were aerated 9 days ago and listed as small holes but we're large holes.Overallgreens were best.Bunkers need work.

Great course with a beautiful layout and friendly staff . . . You really can't control the pace too kuch but there is always a hold up somewhere . . . Not the biggest issue unless you have another appointment, so don't make other plans when playing golf . . . Come here enjoy spend the day.

Had an unpleasant reaction to my sim asking for a 2nd Score Card. It ruined the front nine for us. And, I left a message for the Mgmnt to call me - still waiting for a reply. The place is great - the experience was a letdown.

Tee time was 12:40.. we didn’t get out until 1:45 due to an outing running behind. Then we were shotgunned out and no rangers to maintain pace of play

I had great experience at this course and want to go back again but the traffic was so bad. It took us 2 hours and 15 minutes to get to that course.