Lionhead Golf and Country Club - Legends

The course and facility were as advertised. The Legends course layout, from the blue tee box, did not disappoint. Every hole has its own nuance to keep you alert to where you wish to place your next shot. The greens were running fast. Sure the course is beat up by golfers not repairing their divots and the greens are becoming butchered by massive amounts of non-repaired ball marks. I made it my policy to repair 2 additional marks per green beyond my own. I did enjoy my time with this course. I just wish more golfers would treat it with more respect. Definitely play this course.

Played last 2 holes through sprinklers. Plenty of light out and a few groups still behind us. No need for those to be on yet and for us to have to run in and out to quickly hit our ball to avoid getting soaked.

Nice course. The greens' are crazy hard, there are tons of water hazards and the rough is deep.

In spite of many positives, mainly course design and course conditioning, with pace of play in the 5 hour range this spoils the occassion. This course should be restricted to players who can handle a tough course.

Greens rolled true, fairways were decent. Very nice course!

great value today being customer appreciation day. course was in great shape but the greens had many divots from people before not fixing them. If they had offers like this one today I would make the trip from St Catharines more often. I also made my first eagle on hole 15. With all the courses in the Niagara area , I would love to have a reason to golf Llionhead more often.

While I'm not sure it's amongst the toughest tests (I played from the Blue Tees), it's a challenging layout with quite a few holes that are pleasing to the eye. Given that I've played it for the first time, I would rank this higher in enjoyability and challenge than the Masters Course at Lionhead. With the right kind of deal, I will definitely play this course again.

Only wish we could have stayed all day and played another 18. Course was in great shape, and being first on the greens following the grounds crew, they rolled immaculately and were pock-mark free. Very nice compared to your typical municipal course. Not quite sure how Kaneff affords the amount of grounds staff they have, I guess that is why regular green fees are >$100. For the golfnow rate, the course far exceeded expectations. It is difficult, but not unnecessarily penal.

Very positive experience on all levels except my scores. Very enjoyable morning plus nice lunch upstairs in the clubhouse.

From the moment you arrive in the parking lot you are greeted with friendly staff who help get you and your clubs to the clubhouse. As you stand over your ball setting up your first approach to green you'll know you're for a challenge. Legends is a tough course that makes you feel like you're really playing golf. When you shoot a good round it really feels good to conquer this course, but it will punish you on a bad day..

Enjoyed playing the "Legends" for the first time having previuosly played only the "Masters" course. This course is much longer with some very difficult tee shots and approached to the greens.
Condition of the course was excellent and we enjoyed the experience very much.

THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST COURSE'S I'VE EVER PLAYED

Thought the layout, course conditions and greens were absolutely perfect. This track is challenging and fun and I believe is among the best in Ontario.

There are too many blind holes, and they don't give you enough help getting around, with no GPS provided. It's a very pretty course but not a very friendly course to play if you're there for the first time. I think you could shave 5 or so shots off your round if you were going to go back 3 or 4 times.

The greens were quite fast.

It was cart path only when I played which made for a lot of back and forth to the cart which I'm sure contributed to the rather slow play.

Being a very low lying course I suspect "cart path only" is a quite common restriction. At times you wonder why you bothered to take a cart as it always seems to be so far away.

The Legends course is very challenging as expected and except for the extreme wetness where some fairways are even under water (rained a couple of days before and started 6:30am due to other commitments ) the course is just as nice as before. The previous few times I played there was also early morning and I wish I can play there when it is not too wet and later in the day. Because of high rates I can only play when I see rates drop thru Golfnow. Some bunkers were not even raked and been washed out by rain. Fortunately my ball did not go there.

Great day but course was very wet. Only problem. I had was it took way to long to complete. Always had to wait 10 minutes to tee off.

Excellent Layout and great conditions! - Definitely adding this course to our rotation.

The Course is very tough, the green sizes are so small you have to be extremely precise with your distances.

word of advice Assume red stakes on any wooded area, the club should do this to speed up play, people either spend too much time looking for balls or they keep coming back to drop and play for a lost ball.

Red Stakes please all over the course.

front 9 I found was easy to see where to play to off the tee, the back 9 had hidden hazards that without prior knowledge led to some poor results even with good shots due to lack of course knowledge.

Good course and value apart from one stupid hole (15) and the tiny creek they put in the fairway of the 7th hole. If you hit your career drive on this par 5 you roll into a water hazard they put just at the point you need to reach to have a chance at the green in two. Not smart and makes you wonder who designed this, maybe the same person who designed 15 which is another par 5 requiring a 99% accurate tee shot to have any chance at reaching it in two - gimmicky not challenging as you're really lucky if you hit the right spot to have a go.