Carolina Lakes Golf Club

Good layout, not harsh on errant shots. Tom , the starter this morning was awesome. Gave great advice to enjoy the course. Greens were slow.

Great course. We had a lot of groups bunched up making us have to rush through. With that said, plays great and fun for everyone in the group.

This course is in terrible shape, especially during a time when most courses are looking their very best of the season. The tee boxes are destroyed, the fairways are covered in growth, every surface is hard as stone. The course is very hilly and there are drainage covers sunk into the bottom of deep craters all over the fairways; the course is so hard, balls that land 15+ yards from a cover will roll back and into them.

That’s just the course...every resident seems to have a cart and they just jump on the course and play a hole. Not single residents, but foursomes that patrol the cart paths looking for some space to squeeze between registered golfers with tee times.

Additionally, we saw someone with the refreshment cart once the entire 18 and that was on the first whole.

I can’t see trying this place again for a few years...it would take two seasons just to repair the neglected turf.

greens were good but fairways have not grown in yet, leaving tight lies. Will try to get back here soon.

This is the best value for a public golf course in the Charlotte area; particularly for the weekday afternoon rate. Amazing layout that requires shotmaking and strategy.

Took my buddy out for his birthday. We both had a great time playing. All the holes are very well kept. Will definitely be playing here again!!!

For $80, this course was not in good shape. The greens were not well manicured and putting was a challenge. Even though early in the season I have played other courses that charge half as much that were in much better condition.

The most disappointing was the ranger. We finished 18 in 4 hours and 12 minutes as a 4-some. At the turn we grabbed a hot dog and beer at the shack by the 10th tee - along with many others. After teeing off, the ranger approached and told us we needed to speed up - at this point we had finished 9 in right at 2 hours. We never once, through 18 holes, had anybody pushing us from behind and several times actually had to wait on the group in front of us to clear the green.

Don’t sell food at the turn if you don’t want play to slow somewhat. Better yet, make sure you fully know what you are talking about when you tell a group to speed up. This was very frustrating and honestly made the rest of the round less enjoyable.

I won’t be back to Carolina Lakes.

My friend and I played discourse for the second time we had a great time very challenging but overall fun day

This course is very challenging and always fun to play