New Albany Links Golf Club
About
New Albany Links Golf Club sprawls across gently rolling hills covered with meandering creeks, mature trees, and native grasses and wetlands. There are also a number of lakes throughout that come into play on several holes. The golf course is a fair challenge but it prides itself on its playability. With tees ranging between 4,800 and 7,000 yards, the course accommodates a range of different skill levels. The layout features tree-lined fairways and strategically placed bunkers throughout. New Albany Links Golf Club's 12th hole is one of the course's most memorable. It requires a long drive and an approach that carries past a long bunker and a pond to a narrow green. To the left is certain punishment but a tough up and down waits if you miss right.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 7004 yards | 73.9 | 137 |
| Blue | 72 | 6570 yards | 71.9 | 134 |
| White | 72 | 6228 yards | 70.0 | 131 |
| Gold | 72 | 5957 yards | 68.4 | 127 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 5957 yards | 74.1 | 133 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5551 yards | 74.3 | 128 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 73.3/137 | 449 | 426 | 193 | 525 | 350 | 381 | 589 | 171 | 434 | 3518 | 527 | 186 | 428 | 430 | 521 | 369 | 187 | 405 | 433 | 3486 | 7004 |
| Blue M: 71.7/136 | 412 | 406 | 178 | 490 | 327 | 334 | 555 | 161 | 395 | 3258 | 509 | 173 | 406 | 408 | 494 | 356 | 169 | 388 | 396 | 3299 | 6557 |
| White M: 70.2/133 W: 75.9/133 | 398 | 387 | 160 | 467 | 307 | 332 | 535 | 149 | 362 | 3097 | 486 | 161 | 384 | 371 | 479 | 332 | 164 | 376 | 378 | 3131 | 6228 |
| Gold M: 69.2/126 W: 74.2/132 | 380 | 383 | 157 | 451 | 288 | 317 | 513 | 131 | 346 | 2966 | 460 | 145 | 364 | 357 | 470 | 316 | 149 | 360 | 360 | 2981 | 5947 |
| Red M: 67.4/121 W: 71.8/129 | 353 | 341 | 141 | 429 | 275 | 306 | 492 | 117 | 325 | 2779 | 432 | 130 | 351 | 343 | 430 | 290 | 136 | 331 | 329 | 2772 | 5551 |
| Purple M: 64.2/117 W: 68.3/121 | 327 | 320 | 126 | 380 | 219 | 270 | 409 | 104 | 295 | 2450 | 406 | 120 | 275 | 286 | 406 | 262 | 124 | 277 | 302 | 2458 | 4908 |
| Handicap | 3 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 6 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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Golf Advisor: Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses (2025 #3)
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Tee it up Photo submitted by u2144709037 on 06/15/2022
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Photo submitted by Ozcat on 07/21/2019
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Beautiful Houses! Photo submitted by Ashton9524221 on 06/12/2013
good track with some very difficult holes
good course. highly recommend. not an easy course to walk, but it is doable. Some great hols to really challenge your shot making. some seem so simple, but any hole can give some big numbers.
A favorite with a lot of my golfing friends, as well as myself.
Unmaintained sand traps and incorrect yardages on scorecard
This is a good golf course, a real challenge to my wife and me,both 70 year olds. They have moved the gold tees to where the red tees used to be and added a new set of forward tees for the red. This makes it more reasonable for women and seniors, but they they need to change the yardages on the scorecard.
The traps were in terrible shape, a real disappointment for a course of this caliber.
The greens are tough to putt, and some of them were not in very good shape.
We had a bargain with our GolfNow voucher, $22 each.
That's about right for this course.
good course, higher price
Course is a challenging layout. To know where to hit you need to know the course. It is pretty well maintained. Had a lot of standing water considering nothing else was wet. Carts were older and outdated. No map or GPS to let you know an accurate layout of the holes. Pace was pretty easy to keep.
Great course overall
The course is very challenging. It was in awesome shape. The thing that was disappointing was that not a single bunker was raked. The practice green was WAY slower than the greens on the course. The driving range was under construction so i couldn't warm up before the round. There was no beer cart girl. Despite these few things its overall a great course.
Slow play
Not sure how often they send groups out, but the pace of play on the back was terribly slow.
Good but not great.
Nice course, but pricey, not the best local value. Some of the staff were less than accommodating. Course is challenging regardless of tee selection. Greens were in fantastic shape, bring an extra ball or two.
Really nice links course, but for the average golfer bring lots of balls.
This course is a great course, albiet really expensive if you cannot find a great hot deal. However, if you can get out there for a good deal I would recommend going and enjoying the very difficult course. However, for strait hitters the course should be a good fit and good scores are possible.
nice course.
Nice course. Well taken care of. There is some construction going on, but over all, it's nice.
Always enjoyable at a good price
The course is in pretty good shape. The bunkers could use some work (but just avoiding them would be the best). A variety of holes that allows you to hit a range of clubs.
Good mix of holes
Course was in good shape.
Bunkers in play on every shot.
Greens are challenging
This course needs maintenance!!
Desperate need of up keep on the bunkers and tee boxes!
Terrible Management
The course was in great shape--well maintained.
However, the club management allowed a corporate outing on the course of about 20 players. 16 of them had never golfed before. This caused more regular golfers, who were stuck behind these 5 groups, to never want to return to New Albany Links. At the same time, the 20 players in the outing, probably won't return either since they've only played the game once.
We ended up skipping 3 holes to get around the group outing. The outing was on pace to play in 6.5 hours.
When we asked to tee off of 10 to avoid the group outing, the request was dismissed in a rude manner. Also, there was no starter on the 1st tee so our 12PM tee time turned out to be 12:30.
Very beautiful course.
The course was wet due to heavy rain previous two days, but held it really well. The course was very well maintained, few areas of ground under repair. The setup and challenge was great and pleasant environment to be in. Even nestled in housing area, did not take away from natural feeling of course. Would love to come back and play.
One Of My Favorites
I love New Albany Links! This course has a variety of challenges without being overly difficult. The course is always maintained. Even though on this most recent visit the area had experienced heavy rains they had everything back in place and had a 90 degree crossing cart rule which is always appreciated! Great greens and they were out there building drainage improvements on one par 5! Try it, you will not be disappointed!
Great Track
New Albany Links is a great track with two reachable par 5s, an excellent assortment of par 4s and four medium length par 3s. The course was in good condition and fairly firm given the huge rains we have had over the past three weeks. There are several bunkers that need attention especially the faces. Additional sand is needed in some of the bunkers. It was nice having our foursome finish in four hours on a Sunday afternoon.
bad pro shop experience
We got rained out of our round we had booked on golfnow.com. We played 5 holes until it started raining. Tried to play a few more holes and gave up on #8. Pro shop only gave a raincheck for 1/4 of what we had paid. Ridiculous.
Reliable greatness
I love this course and the layout. Its always maintained well, aside from a few bunkers without sand. But there does seem to be a lot of construction on the course the past few years. Greens were aerated when I played, so it's hard to judge their quality. Staff was great and accommodating! I'll always come and play this course.
Needs help
Being July 1st I would have thought the course would be in better shape. Every trap was a mess, no sand, standing water and rocks. The cart paths are a complete disaster. It's like an off road ralley driving around out there.
Overall the course needs a ton of work and again there are holes under construction. By mid summer a golf course should be in much better shape than NAL. If it wasn't only $20 I'd be upset.
Tough course but a great value!
Had the course almost to ourselves. Pace of play was great and the value was fantastic. Will play this course again.
Nice layout, well maintained even with the rain, driving range closed
Heavy rains the day before had created ruts in the sand traps. Greens, fairways and tee boxes in great shape. Greens run true, consistent and with decent speed. The course will challenge you to hit good shots. The only issue, the driving range is closed for construction. I need at least 10 balls to hit to loosen up. Played here before and the course is always a challenge. From the Blue tees, not too long- but with wet conditions, played a little longer than usual. Rangers were always around and inquiring as to the pace of play. A slower walking group let us play through- very nice. Cart girl hit us about 4 times in 18 holes.