Shale Creek Golf Club

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.

This course and layout is truly a gem.

Paid $60 to play a Sunday afternoon round. Course layout is not bad and greens were challenging. Fun course to play outside of the greens condition. Tons of pitch marks and looked like a kindergarten class did a dance recital on the greens. Zero chance of making putts as nothing rolled correctly or pure. With all the rain we have received those greens should have been awesome like everywhere else I play. Sad cause the course is nice and challenging. Will not play here again

We play this course a couple of times per year. Appreciated the free range balls. The course is a challenging layout with enough water and traps to get your attention. Our only complaint was the greens. They were overly firm and didn’t hold at all. We’d definitely would go back, but would like to see the greens a little more receptive.

Everything was cut very nice. The Fairways were great. The rough was thick and well cut. The greens ran true and quick. All this throughout a steady rain. Lol