Tot Hill Farm Golf Club

Tot Hill is one of the best tests of golf in the area. I had not played the course for over two years and it was pleasant to know it’s still the same course. The course condition was excellent and just as I remembered it.. This course requires every shot in the bag with the elevation change and undulating greens but is fair and rewards good shots. My advice is to play it and get an idea of the layout and return again for another rewarding experience. .

This is the second time I have played this course and I enjoyed the elevated tees and all of the par three's. Come to this course to have fun and not necessarily to score well unless you have mastered every club in your bag. You will never play another course like this so come and enjoy the experience.

I love the layout. Nice variety of holes. Some beautiful holes. Condition of course was not as good as expected after having played other courses by Mike Shrantz. Very patchy tees and fairways at times. It was cart paths only today—brutal. Would NOT RECOMMEND playing with cart paths only rule in effect.

Love Strantz Courses. The first time playing here I wouldn’t recommend trying to break any records. Have fun and try to to hit the high risk high reward shots that were designed to make your head spin. It’s like the Ripleys Believe it or Not Museum of golf courses. The greeter still the bag drop was a gem of a feelin. The pace of play was great. It was probably the first and last time I’d ever have to hit a flop shot off the green to get to the top tier where the pin was after I seen my partners all smash puts that ended up further behind them then when they initially hit them. If i has to be a critic about something the driving range your basically hitting off the side of a mountain so you can’t get your distances down but it wouldn’t be very Strants if they had a normal driving range. I hate to even knock it for that that’s about all I could come up with that didn’t really appease me.

Strantz never disappoints. His designs may be polarizing, but if you get it... you just get it.

I was actually pleasantly surprised and Tot Hill Farm exceeded my expectations. I was a bit concerned with what I had read in recent reviews about the condition of the course. I did not find it to be the case. I thought the course was in good shape for December. There were some thin spots, but nothing dire. Greens were good, if a bit on the slower side.

The beginning of the round is one jaw-dropping hole after another. The first plays drastically downhill. Two is a blind second shot. The third is one of the most creative par-3 greens I’ve ever seen. Nos. 4 and 5 are back-to-back par 5s, with one playing partially-blindly uphill, and the other playing wildly downhill to yet another dreamy green complex. No. 6 is one of the most natural settings for a par 3 I’ve ever encountered.

The par 3s shine here, even though I never hit more than an 8-iron, and several were PWs. I was baffled by just scanning the sites and imagining Strantz being almost done roughing them in before saying, “Wait, let’s put a little tongue of green right over there - and make it pinnable.’” Some will leave you shaking your head in amazement.

There are dramatic elevation changes throughout, and you will play equally as much uphill as you do down. Nos. 10-16 is another memorable stretch of holes.

I liked Tot Hill as much as I did his other design at Tobacco Road. After playing both, I’m puzzled why Tot Hill doesn’t get the same publicity? I can only reason that it has to do with Tobacco Road being in the Sandhills, making it easy to pair with other acclaimed courses in the Pinehurst area. Still, we stayed in Southern Pines and drove the hour to Tot Hill. It is worth it.

I had pretty high expectations for Tot Hill and unfortunately the course disappointed. Conditions were pretty rough, with several patchy fairways, a general lack of mowing, and bumpy greens with ball and spike marks and small spots of crabgrass. The course is uniquely full of rocky walls and elevation changes, but you absolutely need course knowledge to succeed. There were also several demanding pin placements that made the round especially difficult. The clubhouse and amenities are just average at best, and while the value is decent from a pricing standpoint, Tot Hill's not a course I'd rush back to play.

OVERALL: 5.7/10

Absolutely amazing layout, pretty hard play but unlike any golf I’ve ever played before. Good condition, and absolutely amazing layout.

We take an annual trip to Myrtle Beach every year in Feb. We typically play one course in NC on our way home. The last 2 years we played Tobacco Road. We are huge fans of Mike Strantz and decided to give Tot Hill Farm a shot for $25. That was the best $25 I ever spent. Most visually stunning course I've ever played. Greens were fantastic considering 1 1/2 inches of rain fell the night before. If you've never played it, please do. You won't regret it!

This course does not deserve the poor ratings it has been getting. The greens rolled true and had good pace. Sure some tee boxes need work but who plays a course for nice tee boxes? One fairway had a wet area remaining from all of the rain. Besides that this course is in really good shape.

Used to be one of my favorite Mike Stranz courses. Have played many times and always loved the great layout but more importantly, the great conditioning of the course. However, conditions were much less than ideal when we played on 10/28/2018. Greens were decent, not good. Most fairways and tees have goose grass and crab grass in the turf. Green tees on hole 14 is nothing but dirt. All in all, for what used to be a premiere golf course which was always impeccably manicured, it seems to be going down hill, perhaps money problems. Will be taking this course off of our rotation until it returns to form. Heard it changed management companies which has hurt what once was a great track. What a shame!!!

Great layout with fantastic views.

Conditions were horrendous. Greens almost unplayable. Bare in areas. Extremely shaggy grass where there was grass. Areas around greens bare or weedy.

Some tee boxes abandoned with no grass. Best tee boxes were thin at best.

Fairways were the best of all areas. Playable but nowhere near pristine. Weeds present in various area.

Basically course needs major TLC. Looked to me like they are barely holding on to keep it open.

Too bad because the design was awesome and challenging.

Employees very polite and helpful. Saving grace was it was only $29 to ride on a Sunday afternoon. Of course, I quit after 13 holes due to 3 groups on the next hole waiting.

I stopped to play here because I had played Tobacco Road years ago and really enjoyed it. With quality conditioning, Tot Hill Farm would rival.

This was my first time playing Tot Hill Farm in 10-12 years. After the frustration that followed my first round, I swore never to come back, however a friend was in town from GA and his brother in law set up the tee time, so off I went.

We had a 9:10 tee time and I got to the course at roughly 8 am. Parked the car and went into the club house to check in, pay and get some range balls. The young lady working was very friendly and engaging, definitely the highlight of the staff experience. I paid for my round and asked for a bucket of range balls and she made the statement that I was getting basically the last bucket of balls. This really shocked me, how can you be out or almost out of range balls at 8 am?

She said something about how there had been a bunch of groups off already that morning and how everyone bought range balls, etc but still...its 8 am, you should have enough range balls on hand to get you through until at least lunch time.

After heading over to the range, sure enough, I heard others who arrived after me on the putting green complaining about how they were out of range balls, etc. This is completely inexcusable in my opinion and is nothing but laziness and lack of preparation on the courses part, which seemed to be a common theme as our round progressed.

The course was in pretty good shape, not perfect by a long shot, but better than average I guess. We had a discounted rate of roughly $45 and for the money I have played several courses in/around the Triad this year who were in better shape and more finely manicure. Many of the tee boxes hadnt been mowed in probably a week, crab grass all over the tees and in several fairways, bare spots/dirt on many greens, etc.

The greens were slow. I kept waiting for them to speed up as the temperatures increased and they dried out, but they never did. They rolled OK, but were very slow which was a disappointment.

The layout, as most everyone knows, its basically goofy golf in my opinion. The course is very visually appealing and very unique to what you will find basically any where with the big elevation changes, rock formations, creeks, rock bunkers, rocks here, rocks there and more rocks. There are several blind shots throughout the course and definitely a premium put on accuracy. Absolutely beautiful course design to look at, but can be very frustrating to the average golfer.

Biggest complaint about the round was the lack of attention to detail by the course management. The lack of range balls was nothing more than lack of preparation or someone caring. The temps were in the high 80's during our round, felt more like the mid 90's and yet there wasn't water in basically any of the coolers that we passed on the course., which again is completely inexcusable.

Until there is someone at this course who prioritizes the guest experience over everything else, this course will never regain the prestige that it had 10-15 years ago. There are only so many things in the golf course business that you can control, but you can most definitely control things like making sure you have range balls on a Holiday Monday and making sure there are water in all of the coolers. The speed/condition of the greens are forgivable, but to me the other stuff is not.

Hopefully someone there gets a clue and makes some changes, but I definitely won't be going back to find out.

I have been playing this course since it was built and opened. I played late afternoon, 3:30ish, and enjoyed my round very much. The tees were okay, the grass was there just cut higher than I prefer. The fairways were very good. The greens were better than previous years. Pure grass, with a little rain and cut tight they will be perfect. The course is basically wide fairways for tee shots but you don't have any safety net after a couple feet of rough. The greens are fairly large but like the fairways don't offer very much safety net for wayward shots. This is a strantz course so it's built for beauty for the average golfer and challenge for the better golfers. If you can't control your ball you will lose plenty and struggle, so if you are below average but believe you still shoot low scores you will not enjoy this course. If you are honest with your game and expectations are appropriate, you will like this course very much.

Payed $64 dollars to play the is awful course. The course was not over seeded. Fairways were matted and bare in several areas. Greens had divots in them in several spots at the turn I was charged $10.00 for two hot dogs and and a bottle of water. The hotdogs were made back in January the buns were made in December. The staff didn’t care the greens crew was hangin around inside the pro shop. So needless to say I WILL NOT BE BACK TO THIS DUMP!

I absolutely love this course and love seeing it on the mend. The sedge is out of the greens and they had recently aerated and top dressed the greens when I played. Going around the course you can see all of the work being done to return this course to its former greatness.

Tot Hill is coming around nicely. The greens are improving every time I play here. I love this course and can't wait to see it get back to the level it deserves to be.

Tot Hill Farm is as interesting a course as I have ever played. The layout amongst the hills with unique features created a fantastic morning of golf. The greens were extremely soft (balls sinking on the green) is really the only negative. Beautiful and very challenging!

Overall the course was in really good shape. The greens had some sort of weed in them but they are working hard to get rid of them. This course is on the mend and will be great very soon!

We drove almost 3 hours to get to this course. I read the reviews about crabgrass being on the greens but figured it couldn't be that bad. It was just that bad. the course layout is great but difficult. But the greens were very disappointing. The manager assured us that nature everything would be in great shape. If so I will try it again.