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Cascades Golf Club is one of two nine-hole courses offered by Crystal Springs Resort, which offers four other courses. Cascades is the newest of all the courses. It was designed by Roger Rulewich, who designed two of the resort's most popular golf courses, Ballyowen and Wild Turkey. The other nine-hole course, Minerals, has been ranked as one of the top 12 short courses in the country, but Cascades still manages to hold its own. The course offers a fair amount of challenge but the main appeal is its playability. Cascades Golf Club is mostly open with a few strategically placed bunkers coming into play. There is also the occasional water hazard. The golf course is gentle enough for beginners but provides a quick but fun round for more advanced golfers.
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A Great Surprise!
What a good 9 hole golf course that I just played 18 on. I took my grandson who just turned 9, and my son-in-law, and we had a blast. The initial attraction were the green, or beginner tees, which were well placed allowing my grandson (who normally plays the red tees) to have par and birdie putts (he made one). The greens were a bit slower than the other courses at the Resort but were fine and maintained well. The holes gave the impression of being wide open but there was enough trouble to punish a wayward drive but I couldn't help but pull out the driver.
I did not know what to expect with "foot golfers" playing at the same time but in reality they play very fast and from different tees to different targets. There are 5 sets of tees for golfers and you can make it as challenging as you want - up to 7200 from the tips for 18. Conditioning was great and the people are friendly and helpful. To make things even better, we played under their "family golf" promotion and it cost $90 for the three of us - I was expecting to pay more.
I will be back.
First time on Cascades
Played Cascades this past weekend with a new golfer and was extremely impressed with the course design and philosophy to cater to the new or junior golfer. What a great way to introduce the game of golf. We planned on playing just 9 holes but continued on and finished 18 as the pace of play was great and conditions beautiful. I was also introduced to foot golf and as a parent of 3 soccer players at home, i cant wait to come back and expose them to this form of soccer golf! Matt was the starter and was a great ambassador to the course. Be back soon!!
Mixed with "foot" golfers not a good idea
We have played this course several times and have been very happy with the course and the staff until yesterday. Started off really good. Finished the front 9 in a timely manner. After we made the turn to continue the next 9, there were 6 "foot" golfers in front of us. For those of you that don't know what this is, it's people that play on the course that kick a soccer ball into 2 different holes on each hole. Needless to say it took about a half hour to play 1 hole!!! We wound up teeing up on 2nd hole but had to wait again for the "foot" golfers. Way to frustrating!!! We left without completing the other 8 holes. Went back to the club house to complain and all they basically said was there was nothing they could do about it. If we go back, I will definitely ask if they have any "foot" golfers scheduled that day. Management needs to figure something else out for this type of sport.
Foot golfers
Foot golfers really slowed the rate of play to a stand still. At one point my foresome, and 2 more behind us waited to tee off. 12 golfers standing there!
The soccer ball golf thing sounds cool and I actually wouldn't mind trying it.
But they need to tee off together and at once. Then let the golfers go. It is way too obtrusive now.
very good cond.
played at noon on mon. the course was not full so i could hit extra balls as i wanted. balls go father than in fl. you find you must change clubs distances here it is billed as walking but if you do you will need to be in very good shape. ride first time!!!.
Disorganized
First time playing this course. One of my pet peeves with courses is disorganization. While they do have few guys at the valet station they had no starter for the course. I was told to go as I was ready. Between my first and second shots on the first par four two groups showed up at the tee. One of the groups instructed the other to go to the second hole because of a league situation. They were nice enough to let me go through but things like that should no happen in my opinion. I was extremely annoyed by it. Also they have two holes on each green (one of them really wide), another thing annoyed the heck out of me. Course pace was very good and conditions were satisfactory.
Very nice 9
Nice course with beautiful scenic backdrop. Well maintained , only issue was groundskeeper seemed to be watering the greens everytime we reached the green. The group behind was breathing down our back with someone hitting off of the youth tea. Overall very good experience and amazing value.
Excellent value
Cascades is a 9 hole course with 5 sets of tees. The longest (black) measures 3627 yards on the card. The blue is 3315 and white 3022 yards. Ladies (red) is 2741 and juniors (green) plays 1538. There are 2 holes on each green. A regular hole and an oversized (fastplay/juniors) hole. The juniors hole is designated by a checkered flag on the green. Of note is that this course also offers "soccer golf". Never heard of it but apparently there is a red flag set some 50-150 yds away from the target hole (designated by another red flag near the green). Didn't bother any of our shots during our round. Back to real golf. We played the 1st 9 holes from the white tees and the 2nd 9 holes from the blue. It came out to 6337 yards which was perfect for us as we are used to playing from white tees that measure very close to that. The course can be challenging unless you hit a straight ball all the time. The wide openness of the course can lead to deceiving yardages. There are plenty of sprinkler heads that have yardages on them so it's not difficult to get center of green yds. The greens are large but played firm for us. Fairways were wide enough to hold slightly errant shots. If you miss wildly, just hit a provisional. The course was in excellent shape and played fair. Had a real good time and would return. It was a 4 3/4 hours round but ,enjoyable.
Cascades is a great bang for the buck
I'm a beginner golfer so I was looking for a course that's easy on the wallet and will not be overwhelmingly crowded or difficult for a guy who's just really starting to play. Cascades was perfect for me to work on all parts of my game (it all needs work) and was kept in wonderful condition. An intermediate golfer will also enjoy this course as well as it does contain some challenging features, such as changes in elevation and bunker placement. Overall, a very good value and worth playing.
Great Day
Weather was perfect and staff was out taking bags and delivering to golf carts. Check in was friendly and they had Pyramids set up for the range (normally get token) Course was in great shape overall. Only gripe was that they ran out of water in coolers
Nice Course but only 9 holes
This course was in great shape; however there is only 9 holes. The greens were very nice. The traps could have been better, they weren't raked at all. Everything was perfect. The pace of play was terrible but that was probably the holiday more than anything else.
Great area
Cascades is part of a three course property along with Crystal Springs and Wild Turkey and is the lesser of the three courses. However, the overall facilities are beautiful and the staff is top notch. The Cascades course is the longest 9 hole course (we played twice) I have ever played on at over 3600 yards, which was nice. Fairways were great, greens were good to very good. Perfect weather made for a great day of golf at Cascades, I would recommend this course, especially to beginners, because of the wide fairways.
Unique course
Its a 9 hole course that you play twice. I didn't know this. Also, the course has a foot golf course that golfers have to watch for. It wasn't as bad as it thought. All in all, a good day.
The grass is still brown instead of green.
I didn't know that Cascades Golf Course has 9 holes so we played 9 holes twice. It was a boring course.
Great Play for the Cash!
I have played this track before, it's the 3rd nine of Wild Turkey. The condition is always nice like Wild Turkey and if you don't mind playing the same 9 twice, this is great value for the money.
Cascades - Crystal Springs
Very nice course for the price. I was able to get out midweek for $20 you can't beat that for 18 with a cart and range balls. Course was in very good condition for October with average pace of play. Fairly challenging course with fairway bunkers and and water/OB on a couple of holes. However, some of the holes like 1, 7, and 9 are pretty wide so you can let it rip. Greens were tough! Very fast and lots of contours. Its a nine hole course but don't let it fool you. Also has 2nd pin on all greens with large (maybe 12") cup for beginners. My only criticism is that I wish they used colored flags so you could determine pin locations.
Course was family friendly
Fun course to play. Had played Crystal Springs which is at the same location. Crystal has big moguls down the fairway but this was much better.
Nice course, open fairways, some challenging second shots, accuracy needed I a few holes. Birdies are out there with good shots
Nice course to play, not many people want to play a 9 hole course
Best 9 Hole Course In NJ
Had another great round at Cascades.
The course is good but what makes this place great is the customer service.