The St. Anne's Club

Impressive links-style course (with un-links-like water in play on many holes).

Other than a few rough spots on a couple greens, the bent grass putting surfaces were immaculate.

Fairways in good shape but many of the tees need a lot of work.

Otherwise, I’d give the course 5 stars.

Slow course (almost 4 hours to play 9 holes) too many golfers out at a time. Yardages on sprinklers need to be corrected. They are way off. And that leads to wrong club selection. Also suggest planting ornamental grasses at set yardages from the greens. This should help with pace of play.

We have a three some in front of us that took forever to play. There is no one around to control the situation.

surprised by the condition of the course true links course some holes very hard Course very good condition tee boxes were fear

St Anne's had a bad reputation for many reasons and they lived up to it on my second visit. I booked a 3:30pm tee time and upon arrival I was told the Pro made a mistake and "forgot" to pull the tee times from GolfNow. They told me I could play the front 9 twice for $10 less than would normally pay. I played the front 9 and when I arrived 10 the league was teeing off. The problem here is that the 10th tee is nowhere near the clubhouse. I had to drive back on the front 9 to get back to the first tee. When I arrived at the first tee there were 4 groups waiting. I went home.

Greens are very nice. Bring extra Ammunition if u don’t hit it straight.

Everything was in great condition except tee boxes

If you truly are new to the game, I mean you generally shoot 100-110 or more , please think about playing elsewhere. I’m not trying to scare people away, just please be honest about your abilities before coming here. We had a group in front of us that took multiple tee shots then waited for the green to clear when they were clearly 200+ yards out. Caused a 5 + hour round after they chatted up the cart girl for 5-10 every time she drove by.

Tee boxes are bad. No other word for it. Fairways are a good 75-80% . Bunkers are as nice as I’ve seen this season. The greens are FAST!! Some rough spots in places, but holding them was tough.

Very tough course. Only about 4-5 years old but already has teeth to it. 6100+ from the whites. I find a lot of opportunities to hit driver, but also opportunities to lose balls and strokes. Have shot a low of 86 here and a high of 103. I’m a 15-16 HDCP. and love the challenge this course provides. Bring your GPS if you have one. It will definitely help any first time players. And please continue to fix your ball marks AND another one or two. It’s easy.

Course is really improving since the new ownership. Staff are friendly and course is in top notch shape greens are rolling well

Generally, people are far more likely to post a negative review than to submit a moderately positive review. Like most golfers in Delaware, I had heard the horror stories about how terrible this course was, from conditions to layout. A friend asked me to try a $25 tee time deal in order to give the courses a shot. I'm a pass holder at Deerfield, and usually play 80 percent of my golf there., and as such have a pretty good perspective on what a well conditioned course should be. Perhaps going in with low expectations played a part in my experience, but frankly, I was very impressed with the tract, the staff, and found the conditions while not where they should be....not awful. Yes, the tee boxes need to be seeded, yes on some greens there where dark dead spots....but overall, for mid to late August, I found the fairways and rough to be in good condition, well maintained and very playable.

In terms of the layout....I really enjoyed it, challenging but very fair. I particularly liked that many of the greens were accessible from "bump and run" shots short of the green (similar to Florida courses) rather than than the steep fronts more common in our area...particularly at Deerfield. I also liked the risk/reward par 5's that forced a decision between laying up or going for a hero shot. The only other downside is that unless someone lives in Middletown, it is really off the beaten trail.....but that also helps with the pace of play, and value. Finally, I would, strongly recommend giving this course a try over the next few months.

We had a group of 9 people in 3 tee times that played this "course" after an all night rain. We arrived an asked for direction to the driving range and we told "it's open but I don't know if there's any balls over there". This was at 9:30 AM! The sprinklers were watering the course from start to finish after about 1.5" of rain the night before. It was a sloppy mess, yet carts were allowed on the fairways. The flags on most greens were placed in areas where the greens were at their worst. There wasn't a single putt where it wasn't extremely bumpy or bare. Many, many areas were overgrown. Several tee boxes infested with crabgrass. When you go to the course's website, they have a scorecard of Back Creek, not even their own course! There are no pictures of the hole layout (although the did have pics posted a week before). Now all they have is a description of the holes. You know you're in for an adventure when you go to the website and the video that plays contains NOTHING of the course itself, just 2 people walking from a cart to the pub then another 1:27 of ONLY the bar and restaurant. NEVER. AGAIN...EVER!

This course has a good layout, with a good amount of water, tall grass and dunes. The greens can be tough to play. My issue was the conditions. The tees were OK and the fairways were good but the greens were lacking. They had burned out spots and need attention. Maybe they need more time to grown in.

This course has a good layout, with quite a bit of water on the front 9, some dunes and tall grass. It is challeniging with tough greens,. My only issue was conditioning; the tees were OK, fairways were good but the greens need more attention as quite a few had some burned out spots. Maybe it needs more time to grow in.

A year has passed since my last review and the course has not improved at all over that year. There are still a bunch of bare spots which need to be seeded and then just put under ground under repair. Let those areas fill in. Tee boxes have definitely gotten worse and they also needed to be fixed. The course that looked the best was the greens. Great shape and looked great, just a little slow. The layout is fun and challenging but they really needed to tackle the problem spots. Also had lunch after the round and the food was only ok. Still is a must play course if in the area.