Cardinal Golf Club - East

My booking was last minute for only one. They fully accommodated the one booking. From the time of parking to tee off was less than 5 min. Very friendly staff. Great that they can take a one person booking as well!

Staff were very friendly and organized, facilities are well kept. Major drainage issues on this course, pace of play was very slow, layout is nothing interesting.

The East Wing course is great. In terms of conditions, Cardinal does a fantastic job. Greens ran consistently, fairways were cut well, rough was challenging but fair. In terms of that, it's borderline 5 stars for Ontario Golf.

In terms of the logistics, this course is horrid. Tee times are way to close together. Our group waited on every single tee box all day, and the group behind us on most par 3s would catch up and sit directly behind us. Unfortunately there was a frost delay in the morning and as much as I was asked about receiving an email with the mention of a 1.5hr delay, I didn't receive anything, nor did others that I spoke to in the morning.

Next thing, pro shop staff are incredibly friendly and super helpful. They deserve a lot of credit, especially on a day where there was grumpy golfers because of delays. The starters are another story. They are quite grumpy and pretty unhelpful besides when they are telling you aggressively that you should be on deck and should be ready to go before the group Infront steps onto the tee box.

Great job Cardinal with the facilities overall, but there needs to be some serious considerations into the logistics side of golf. Doesn't make me want to go back when a round takes 5.5hrs.

Fabulous weather, great course conditions. Really needed to see course marshals as the foursome in front had us and the group behind us backed up throughout the day. They spent too much time looking for balls. This spoiled what could have been an excellent day.

I have played at cardinal plenty of times, and I have to admit the last few times have been worse and worse.

When there are 3 groups and at one point 4 groups at 1 hole, there is a problem.

I understand this is a business and you are trying to maximize your profits, but slamming the golf course every 10 minutes makes for a horrible experience.

My tee time was at 3:10pm… my threesome finished at 8:30pm and we skipped hole 11 because there was a group walking infront of us, and we couldn’t take it anymore. At one point we made conversations with both the group infront of us and behind us, and both groups were just as frustrated as we were. The one lady who was playing behind us said it was her 1st time here, and her last.