Cardinal Golf Club - East

Quite literally. Went home after 11 holes. I get it’s a holiday weekend but pace of play beyond horrendous here. It ruins whole round and golf experience when you can’t get any rhythm going waiting 20 minutes at every tee block. No marshals to monitor activity and keep things moving. Just lots of attendants in the parking lot checking slips (several times over from the pro shop to first tee) and fussing over golf carts.

Complete waste of time and money unless you’re comfortable playing 11 holes for 4+ hours.

The East course front 9 is a bit hilly but view is good. Fairways and greens are in good condition and pace of play is acceptable. Back 9 is longer with some water hazard and high rough and some fairways are pretty tight and therefore more challenging.Staffs are very friendly and polite and the power cart is of high quality. Overall a good course with moderate difficulty and can suit variety of players.

Course is set in a wonderful setting absolutely fantastic. Last played about 15 years ago it was slow then and even worse now. 2 ball took 4hrs 30 mins. Conduct of some young men ops children disgustingly bad language. Most greens needs TLC and the tees were probably the worst I played from in many years. What’s the green staff and management doing?

Very nice well kept course but 5 + hour round is to much for me. Never once saw a marshal to help move people along. To bad it's a nice course.

overall a good course, somewhat challenging, pace of play hindered our play

frank

I have been looking forward to playing one of Cardinal’s four courses for quite sometime. I played the round with my girlfriend at one of the early morning tee times.

Initially when I booked I thought we’d be playing alone. However, the Starter group us with another couple. The couple were great but the pace of pay was slower due to being 4 people.

The days start times were pretty messed up! It seems that everyone was given the same tee time and were paired up! Or we were all put into a queue. Either way our round lasted longer than expected, and we weren’t able to finish the last 4 holes.

Next time I book I’ll be very aware of the possible changes.

Overall pace of play ruined this experience. First 7 holes we played as a foursome in 1.5 hrs, then following 6 holes we were playing at a rate of about 20 minutes per hole, each tee deck has 3 groups lined up at all times. Luckily two groups ahead of quit so towards the end the pace picked back up. Course overbooked their tee sheet and lead to really jammed up course and slow play. Conditions of course were great but pace of play ruined this. I wouldn't go to this course on a sunny day because this is what you will get.

The bones of the course were excellent. The layout was challenging without being punishing and the fairways and greens were healthy firm and fast.

What is clear is that the maintenance staff cannot keep up with the poor etiquette of the average golfers. Untended ballmarks, cleat marks on the greens and countless unreplaced divots really lowered the playability and experience. Every putt was affected by one or 2 such blemishes.

The course was also crowded making for an extremely slow round with 2 or more groups waiting at every tee box. The pit stop at the turn was also out of stock of many items on the menu, forcing groups into longer waits to grab a quick bite before continuing the round

The pace of play was so slow that we have to wait on every hole. There was no marshall on the course to control the pace. It took us over 5 hours to play 17 holes as we have to skip one hole in order to make time for our appointment after the game. Do not recommend to play this course especially on weekends.

Go here if you want to play 5 hour rounds. There are no marshals on the course, people taking 10 shots on a par 3. Going to avoid going forward.

This is the second time I played the East Wing and the conditions were very poor. It is to be suspected because the time of season. My score is low because the training of the staff is extremely poor. It was mid Saturday and the cart girl had no food except for Chocolate bars, chips, and peanuts. When we rented the cart there should always be a warning that it is cart path only. I would of never rented the cart. There were times when we were running to get back to our cart because we had hit the ball on the opposite side of the cart path and the group behind us was waiting. These are little things that add up to big things.

Club only had the front 9 of the East and the back 9 of the West course available for play that day because of the amount of water on the course. I think that the only playable 9 was the East course.