Breakfast Hill Golf Club

I have always enjoyed the layout at Breakfast Hill. It is varied and fairly imaginative and makes great use of the natural terrain. It is well kept and all of that bent grass is a joy to play on. It is usually quite busy and deservedly so, as it is the best of the public courses on the NH seacoast. They are very aware of this, and are commanding an aggressive market price for their green fees. For these reasons, I like to play it in the spring or fall, and on days where the weather is less than great. I found the course to be conditioned just as I suspected last week, but the staff was having a sub par day. On the positive side, I could see the grounds crew had been busy keeping the course up and removing a lot of trees and brush from some of the rocky areas and marshes bordering several holes. On the front the 8th is a unique hole. You hit less than driver up the hill to avoid the cross hazard. You then hit a short iron in to an awkwardly perched green with trouble all around it. On the back, the 11th is a great par 4 that requires 2 big and precise shots to reach in regulation. To many BH will seem too short to challenge them, but the trade off is that more high handicappers are playing a length more suited to them and that helps the pace of play. The Grill is better than most public golf course 19th holes. It is a nice place for a post round drink, but if you are a tourist, Portsmouth and all of it's offerings are just down the street. I recommend a round at BH in the quieter months and if you can find an internet special to save a few bucks.

Pace of play on Sunday afternoon exceeded 5 hours. Ranger on course showed litle to no interest in advising group to pick up the pace. Waited on nearly every shot......

Relatively easy course with moderate to slow greens. The greens are sanded and respond well to high shots with minimum spin, i.e. they bite a little with a softer ball. Par 5s are reachable in 2 by the low handicapper. Most of the Par 3s are straight up and present few difficulties. You can shoot much lower on this course if a strategy is developed from the tee insofaras it is not always advisable to hit a driver off the tee.

We were allowed to go off early thanks to the starter. He was very friendly and worked us in when he had a cancelation pace of play was good 4 hours.
course is fairly new but in good shape some interesting holes.
you have a hard time beating New Englands summer weather.

Course had a lot of elevation changes and it was challenging without being over the top. Staff was friendly and helpful given we had never played there before.

I golf here a couple times each year and always enjoy the experience. Very nice layout and course is always in good condition. Also a course you can walk if you like.

Not sure why more people don't golf here. I went out on a Friday morning and had the course to myself.

This course was a delight. It is maintained by a conscientious and friendly staff. Greens and fairways were in good condition. Tees gave several choices using a four color code system i thought was unique. Gold, silver,black,maroon with maroon playing the longest. I used black which is equivalent to white for average golfers. The flags on the greens had a secondary flag beneath the upper flag indicating hole placement. Ie, a flag lower on the pole meant the hole is back while closer to the top meant the hole is closer to the front.

The clubhouse and restaurant situated in the same building and accessible to each other were in excellent condition. Fairly new looked to me. The course was a challenge for me as my score showed. i did manage to break 100 and could have done better and prob will next time around. I did manage one birdie, four pars and several bogies. The double bogies hurt.

Only drawback i prob won't be able to play breakfast hill before i return home to illinois after several weeks visiting my mom in massachusetts. I don't think golfnow will be offering the great discount rate of $16 before june 26 the day i'm scheduled to return home to illinois.You can believe I will play it before i leave if it is though.

Very good layout, very average condition,  the whole course had been punched, they claimed three weeks before our play, it looked as though to be less than two weeks, just my opinion although the greens themselves were very true. We were not allowed to finish our round, we only had one hole to play # 18, they claimed that thunderstorm was coming, we never saw it,when we questioned them they said it was 15 miles away. What we did see was some people lining up carts to play in a league.