David L. Baker Memorial Golf

Great round of golf. Pace of play was great. Finished in less then 3 hours. Staff was very nice and helpful.

Not crowded so play was quick. Fairways were decent but it seemed that nobody was fixing their ball marks on the greens except us. We tried to repair ours and at least one additional. We had a good day. A little breeze helped cool us down for it was a warm day.

We like to play here because it is close to our home and in the heart of the city so it is nice to find a place to eat after we done playing golf.

Love to play here every Tuesday ,sometimes more! Staff is great, friendly ,informative ,funny and driving ranges good shape and accommodating.

Great course if you want to get a round of golf in. Great beginning course as well for new golfers.

This course although short it always challenging when you have several options to play several holes

This course had a good layout but the greens had a lot of divots. Looks like no o e repairs anything there and the pace of play was very very slow waiting on every hole up to two group waiting time.

This is the best course for the money and it is quite challenging. Ray is very attentive to players .

They must start to water and make SOME effort to make the greens better or I'm done.

Baker is excellent for working on your short shots.

Greens are not in great shape because they have been punched and aerated. Sand traps are not in good shape. Many have a dusting of sand over a very hard base... they need considerable work..

Course is always challenging even though there is no par 5.

Played David L. Baker Monday 03/12/2018, with a scheduled tee time of 11:30. We ended up getting out at 11 as a twosome behind a twosome behind a pair of foursomes.

My last experience with the course a regular on my rota had been horrible, as it was a swamp, and mud pit, despite the absence of any recent rain. Today found the course in good winter condition. Pro shop staff were friendly and helpful.

The course seems to showing signs of financial weakness. I would say that at full 3/4ths of the mats on the driving range feature rips and tears. I was fortunate enough to find one of the few intact, but with a slight divot from use. Restroom needed attention, as did the porta johns on the back nine (at my age you notice this stuff). The practice green was in very good shape, however not representative of those on course in terms of cut. The practice green was cut tight, the greens on course that will punched in two weeks were a little shaggy.

The course did provide filled sand bottles at the turn for those of us that care about fixing divots.

The starter offered to get us out early which was appreciated as we were playing on a $24 Golf Now round with cart, and the time seven minutes before us had listed at $31. The round still took about 3.5 hours to play.

The cart is basic, and clean with comfortable seats., and the sand bottles were full.

My friend and I played from the blues. Most tees with the exception of #3 played back, a couple were at the tips, something I have seen at this course before. It was a very different look.

Weather was overcast, and around 70 degrees, little breeze on the front nine, slightly stronger on the back nine. Just a really nice day to get a round in before a predicted week of rain. Squirrels and ducks are in abundance, and happy to come up to you and beg. I didn’t have anything and actually had one squirrel try to block my way a couple of times well putting a paw out. If you bring food, don’t leave it lying around the cart or in an open pocket.

Tee boxes were slightly unlevel with some signs of wear, and unrepaired divots. Still very playable. Fairways were winter grass conditions with excellent coverage. Fairway rough was largely nonexistent. About three to four inches around the greens and bunkers. Bunkers looked in good condition, I wasn’t in one so can’t speak from immediate experience.

Greens were my issue for the round. Nothing wrong with greens themselves, there were a couple with minor bare spots, and most featured molted grass, but rolled well. The main issue was that they were shaggy. The practice green had been mown, but the greens on course had not, likely due to the weekends rain, and the pending punching. As mentioned the ball rolled well, but I couldn’t bring myself to hit it firm enough leaving a number of puts short.

Where my last round left me unhappy, upset, and not wanting to come back to a course I play dozens of times per year, today’s round put the course back on my map. That alone makes me happy I played here.

I played because I had a fairly easy day at work and this course usually offers a good bang for the buck but even last Friday I would have stayed away. The tee boxes were under repair cutting a lot of the par 3s literally in half that I could tee off with my putter! The greens were in such bad shape because golfers here literally don't know that they have to repair their divots but there seems to be nobody stressing these things to the people that golf here. Just keep that in mind when booking a tee time here, don't expect much.