Shale Creek Golf Club

A nice course, but not worth the money they charge there most of the time. We play there once a year if we can afford it.

Early in the year and looking good.

Nice layout.

Course used to be good but they were charging a $61 spring rate and there is barely any sand in the bunkers. If they fix the bunkers the review would go to 4 stars.

Had an 11:00 tee time. Bought ticket and was not told about any delays. Went to 1st tee box. A group of 25+ golfers waiting on tee. Starter told us there was a 50 minute frost delay. It was just myself and golfing buddy. Starter said we were paired up with another twosome that hadn’t showed up yet. The guys waiting to tee off said that we could tee off in front of them. Starter was rude and said no way. We asked why not, the prior group was already on the green and fairway was open. Starter called the general manager who came out and was a real jerk. He said can’t have all these 2-somes running around. Course is expensive, greens beat up, layout has some funky holes. Been playing there for the past 5+ years. Probably won’t go back.

Played 9 holes in the afternoon, pro shop had us start on the back 9. Not a problem but they put us between 2 groups making the turn. Group in front was no issue, the group behind us got mad off at us when we just arrived and doing what we are told by pro shop. Should have never been shoe horned between 2 groups making the turn, ruin not only our round but the people's behind us too.

While is has been very dry the last couple weeks. This course is mostly burnt out. Clearly they are not watering or giving the greens attention like many other courses are. And, then to charge $74 on a weekend. CLEARLY NO VALUE HERE. HEARD about similar issues at this corse for a couple years.

We played early morning Saturday. Paid the premium price. The course just isn't worth that price. The traps are in terrible shape, all lacking sand, none racked. hard as a rock a inch below the surface. There are a ton of traps so it does impact your round. Also some traps had standing water in them and it really hadn't rained lately.

The tees were in bad shape also. Just not moving the tees around, lots of use and some just need rebuilding.

If I was paying around $50 I could deal with it but for $70+ in NEO its gotta be perfect. I would rather play at the quarry for the same price.

Love the course but lately it feels like pace of play has slowed down to a snails pace back to back weeks 5 + hour rounds

Course layout, conditions, staff and amenities are all fantastic. Pace of play and complete lack of awareness from the staff to enforce it was rather disappointing. My son and I left after 14 holes after tolerating the slow play for 4.5 hours. We guesstimated based in our time in the course it would have taken us at least another 1.5 to 2 hours to finish our round. That was in a Friday (non prime time slot). I realize golf courses these days want all the play they can get and will try their best to not upset their patrons. However, being out there for nearly 5 hours and not seeing a single course ranger to enforce “some” measure of pace of play was rather disappointing. I enjoy golf, but a 6 hour round is a bit excessive. I noticed many of the golfers out on the course were locals based on their custom golf carts etc. which leads me to believe this level of slow play is probably common. Rest assured regardless of how much I loved the course and reasonable price I will not go back nor would I recommend it to any of my many golf friends. I realize I’m perhaps being a bit unfair to Shale Creek given slow play seems to be a golf problem in general. That said, public courses who expect significant play and recurring customers really need to take pace of play into consideration and implement changes to help improve it.

I always enjoy playing this course. There are some holes you can go for and other holes you have to play smart. A good challenging course.