Granite Ridge Golf Club - Ruby

A separate power cart was not offered at first. A plastic sheet was hung to divide the cart that was presented for use. A specific request was required to get an individual cart.

Great courses to play on but the greens are terribly slow.... had my ball stop In the middle of the slope on one of the greens where there was a 30 degree slope..... for twilight they should make carts mandatory .... great place to hang out with friends.

To start with, booking a tee time seemed easy enough, but it caused confusion because when you book your time, they take your credit card number, so you assume that you are paying, you're not. There is a fee added for booking your tee time, even though you are connecting from their site for booking, you get re-directed to Golf Now, and they charge a fee, you have no option.

Covid-19 causes some issues, plastic dividers in the cart are horrible, especially if the wind is blowing it into the side of your face, absolutely unnecessary, possibly a municipal governmentl rule, i have not had that experience anywhere else.

We have had some very warm dry weather, so there were some patches of brown, but mostly they have kept the fairways in reasonable condition, and you could still get the tees in the ground, so acceptable.

The greens, however, not so much, well taken care of in terms of length, watering, softness, the course has done their best given the weather, but the people that use the course obviously have no consideration for those coming behind them. I could fix 8 or 10 ball marks on every green and still plenty more. We played at 3:00, so there was lots of traffic ahead of us, but nobody is fixing their ball marks, and that makes any puts outside of 8 feet, almost impossible. Chipping from close range horrible, several times my ball was deflected off line by ball marks and scuffs on the green that had not been repaired. Large ball marks on the green require ball height and speed are generally made by reasonable golfers that are able to hit the green from longer distances. It is totally unacceptable that these golfers are not repairing their ball marks and at least one other when they are on the green. On top of that, there were several players ahead of us that were using the old style spikes, and tearing the greens apart, scuffing and twisting their feet, absolutely terrible, and obviously no consideration for those coming behind.

There were plenty of marshals out, we saw them every second or third hole, so they should have been able to see those that were not respecting the golf course, but I think most of them are only there for the free golf. There were a couple of times when the Marshall came up to us while we were Teeing off, and pulled their cart up 40 feet in front of the Tee Block, still on the path, but in our field of view. I am not a PAR golfer, and every once in a while I hit a ball off the toe of the club and it goes astray. Having the marshal in my field of view creates a distraction that is unnecessary for an employee of the course and very inconsiderate. Their jobs are to keep up the pace of play, and to make sure the golf course is not being abused. There is no excuse for the marshal's not to be keeping an eye on the greens as well and making sure that people are fixing their ball marks and respecting the golf course.

This course is always in decent shape fair test of golf with some tough par 5's and short par 4's. You need to be accurate on some holes to have a chance to get on in regulation. Good value and pace of play when we played - 4:48. We got all holes in comfortably.

About one hour drive from east end Toronto but well worth the drive. Good conditions tee to agree with friendly staff.

Staffs are all friendly anf courses are we'll looked after.

Carts are clean and fairly new. I will come back again play at this course.

Green and Fairways are not maintained well.

Course itself it is easy since the distance is very short.

Green speed is very slow.

But! View is good.