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Royal Ontario Golf Club sprawls across gentle hillsides blanketed in mature trees and thick fescue. Formerly a stable, the course features large meadows and dense groves of trees that frame the fairways and greens. The layout has a more traditional, links design that features occasional water hazards, most notably on the par-5 ninth and 18th holes that share a large lake, but the tree-covered hills are the true challenge of the golf course. Although there are many difficult elements on this course, five sets of tees make it accessible for players of all skill levels. Royal Ontario Golf Club is often compared to the Masters Course at Lionhead Golf & Country Club.
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Good course
It's good and challenge course. fairway and green is good and fantastic. It's good time for me and my wife.
Challenging Course at a Great Price
Beautiful day and very good value for a very nice and well-conditioned course. Tee time was at 7 AM. Great value on the day after Canada Day weekend. Not many golfers on course. Only caveat...top-dressed greens. Lots of grit on greens made it difficult to play greens as expected. The course can be a strong challenge especially if you are teeing from the Blues or beyond. There are some blind T shots including (and especially) the 10th. GPS installed carts r handhelds would be highly recommended. If you have a rangefinder (as my playing partner had) may be helpful but sometimes difficult layups were a challenge to determine.
Otherwise, the course is a great value if you can get the discount Hot Deals price. Nice driving range, too. Only 35 minutes away from midtown Toronto.
What a Pleasure!
Got to play Royal Ontario today for the first time :) Was it ever a pleasure!
Started off nice and early and pace was fair! Took just about 4 hours to play 18 back to front. We were a little bit delayed by a 4some but Marshall's were present to make sure pace was kept up!
I played Lionhead last week and Royal Ontario have it a strong run for it's money! I had a much more enjoyable round here and the course was actually in better shape! Specifically less divots and ball marks.
The only negative of the round was the sanding of the greens! - 7/18 greens were freshly covered in sand making it almost impossible to read the green. Also - the grounds staff needs to learn to stop cutting while golfers are hitting! We had someone cutting the tee box we were hitting from while we were hitting and had to ask them to please stop.
I would reccomend ANYONE should play this course! :)
good golf club
Worthy and valuable golf club. Especially the marshal was very kind and professional. The course is very well maintained and in good condition. I will play hete again.
Challenging Course
This days the greens were holding well from morning watering. Course was busy during the long weekend. Pace was comfortable, but slow. Plenty of water hazards around this tight course. Choose your clubs carefully and know your yardages. Look forward to returning.
Conditions are very good and it's a challenging course
Conditions are very good - the bunker sand is pretty firm so that could be better. Generally the conditions were great. There is the odd ground under repair and not so great spots. Greens are in good shape.
It's a very challenging course - perhaps too much fescue in some places where you might hit a great shot but it trickles in and you've lost your ball.
Not a big fan of how close #9 and #18 run. I couple rows of trees to separate them a little would be better.
Would recommend to play here and I will be coming back
Great challenging course!
The course was in excellent condition. The tee boxes, fairways, and greens were all in top condition. Definitely had fun playing this course and will be back again.
Way Over Priced!
Poor place to play no Marshall's anywhere to be seen. If you like 6 hour rounds this is your place to play. I would not recommend this layout poor conditioned and brutal pace of play.
Royal Ontario
Pace of play was pathetic it took my group over 5 hours to play. For the money that we paid the condition was not worth it. Overall I would not recommend playing this one!
Challenging track, requires well placed shots.
Tough course in fairly good shape - even for spring. Found the tee decks to be a little long - could be a spring thing as well. Lots of variety here with tough bunkers and undulating greens.
This course has great features
Good course! Would play again. Good course. Would play again.
Ponds were overflowing
Tough narrow course with water on almost every hole. Spring water levels were high and ponds were overflowing which made the course even narrower than intended.
Early Season
Couse condition was inconsistent.. most fairways were good to very good, most greens were below average to average. Greens were very slow, bumpy and very sandy.. need care and work. Course layout was nice .. would play again later to see if course conditions improve to justify the price.
Fun course
Little short from the blue tees, will have to move back next time to use driver on more holes.
Good Spring Golf
This was a round of necessity after a long winter and it didn't disappoint. Not much I can say as it is so early on the year, but despite that the curse was in pretty good shape. It obviously drains well and there were very few soggy spots in the fairways. I was very happy for mid-April gold and look forward to returning under ideal conditions.
Nice course, worth playing
Only complaint was the pace of play, extremely slow, waited on every tee, no marshal to push things along. Many of the greens were irritated, which I think should have been noted before we played. Beautiful course, really challenging.