Crystal Lake Golf & Country Club

The greens were in terrible shape - people not replacing divots and many spots that were completely burned out. You could hit a great shot, but the greens were hard as a rock and the ball would bounce 10 feet in the air and go of off the green (this was on a day when it was 60 degrees). Sand traps are mostly mud and dirt. There are a few sand traps with a shallow layer of sand. This was usually my home course, but I think I will give it a while before I go back. Appears that they are not taking care of the course at all.

Traps were horrible condition… no sand at all. Unplayable

Well where do I start? Let me just say if you are expecting to get some lunch/drinks at the turn then you will be highly disappointed. Once you start on the 1st hole this course does not return to the clubhouse until after your round, very rarely is there a drink cart available. If you have a tee time expect not to go off on time as walk ups just go off as they see fit…no one is keeping any sort of order when it comes to who is supposed to tee off next. Also there is a 2 person per cart “rule”. This also is not enforced as there was numerous people playing together but riding separate, causing a shortage of carts and having to wait for ones to become available. The pace of play is undeniably some of the worst I have seen in many courses. If you are looking for a 4 hour or so round then I would not go here. The clientele is seriously lacking in a sense of time as well as etiquette. People blasting loud rap music from there carts while on the practice green which is adjacent to the first tee box, really classy. One thing positive I can say is the greens are always in decent shape, which is surprising as most of the players who play here love to drag there feet while walking on the greens…I.e. Laziness. None of the bunkers have any sort of decent sand and most actually are filled with pebbles so be careful if you have to play out of them. I probably shouldn’t give this course a 3 out of 5 but the green condition saved them.

The pace of play was the only bad part of the round,2 of us played behind a 4some all day and figured at some point they would eventually let us play thru but it never happened,really aggravating! LET FASTER PLAYERS PLAY THRU ALWAYS!!!!!

My husband and I play this course at least once a year and Monday (11-01-2021) was that day.

The weather was a bit nippy on the front but turned into a picture perfect golf day at the turn.

The greens rolled true but some had bald spots on the edge. The sand traps were hard and packed so stay out of the traps unless you can hit well out of them when they are hard.

The staff inside and out were fantastic. One of the guys in our flight was about ten minutes late and they allowed us to wait on him which really worked out well as the flight behind us were waiting on some mates as well.

NOW THEN,

The beef hotdog and fries were really, really good and were the jumbo hotdogs and not those small dogs that get swallowed up in the bun as I expected because as of this date, the hotdog and fries only costed "THREE DOLLARS" YES you read that right just $3 for the type of hotdog I expected to pay $5 for alone not to mentioned the generous amount of fries that accompanied the dog.

My husband decided to purchase himself one after our round from the food and beverage shop which is operated and own by Mr. Quinn who is a really reasonable and Godly man.

There was no way my husband was going to share his meal with me so he purchased me a second order as well.

Even if the price were to go up to $5 for a hotdog and fries during the 2022 season, I plan to place an order for sure and will probably play earlier in the year just for the hotdog and maybe have a side order of "golf".

Played this course many times this year and the greens are the worse they’ve been. I can’t understand why. Such a shame for a fun track