Minnechaug Golf Course

My husband and I went to go play what we thought we be a quick round of 9. The course is in great condition and we were looking forward to our round. We are very experienced golfers so we are aware 9 hole public courses are for all degrees of golfer.

When we first teed off we were behind a group of 4 that were on the slower side. It wasn’t a big deal but the group behind us complained and an employee came out to handle the situation. The group of 4 let us play through where we came to find a group of another 4 ahead of them who were beyond rude. They could see that there were 3 groups backed up behind them and they would continue to take their time, taking multiple practice shots, acting like they had all day, just pretty much hacking it. They spent 30 minutes in just the middle of the fairway before getting to the green. We called the pro shop to let them know and they said they would take care of it. Once we caught up to this group, they still didn’t let us play through.

At this point we finished hole 3 and an hour since we teed off had gone by. It was easily going to be a 4 hour round. My husband and I decided to go in and call it quits after that. When we went into the pro shop to tell them that we wanted to come back another time for our round, they refused to compensate us or apologize. They told us they didn’t want to talk to that group about keeping pace.

We were pretty disappointed and will probably not return.

Course has some tough holes, some interesting decisions, and some holes you could score on.

This course has a few holes that may punish the average neighborhood hulk on drives, but it was worth playing in my opinion. It’s a solid choice for 9 holes if you need to go after or before work to de stress and enjoy the game you love for a cost effective price. I would not play this on a day I have off due to only having 9 holes.

Great beginner course! A little confusing when the holes go through the neighborhood to find the next one, but keeps it interesting. Hole 8 & 9 are awesome. Will play again.

Course layout and conditions are good. Price is low. Value is great.

Today we went out in the afternoon and both my son and I were looking forward to our return trip after a month had passed since our last visit to Minnechaug. We were not disappointed. In fact, one look at the first fairway and it was clear that everything looked better: you could see, paralleling the white fence and tree lines, the smooth green expanse of late-May grass, a lush carpet covering all. The whole course felt bright and summery, and it was clear immediately how smoothly the greens themselves were rolling. This time during our round, we saw quite a few maintenance workers out on the course, each one looking industrious. It was also nice to see one of the friendly clubhouse workers, Shane, whom I met at check-on, out monitoring for slow play. For many clubs this is not always, shall we say, customary.

Our pleasant day here reinforced my point from a month ago (review of late April) that this is a course worth playing. There’s not much to add on the layout itself, though holes two, five, and six are superb—that was abundantly clear again. I would put the short but tight and rugged par-4 second on a statewide list of top-ten short holes. It’s the ultimate test of precision for a two shotter, but also fair enough, such that you can’t call it too finicky. Six, likewise, impresses deeply by the accuracy required of golfers to hit (from 175 yards) a green that varies from 18 yards wide to a mere 13 near the back, all after traversing a stream on the right. Despite the simplicity here—call it elegance—I’m not sure Geoffrey Cornish designed a better par-three than this one. The two finishing holes, both par-threes, looked absolutely stupendous in the sun on this gorgeous afternoon. And, sure, I can here critics carping about such non-classic sequencing, but really—who cares! I’ll gladly take this all-or-nothing, slam-bang finish.

Kudos, then, is due to Minnechaug’s greenskeeping staff for raising the level of conditioning a couple of big notches to the point where everything, save for still some greenside areas and intermittent patchiness in sections of fairway and rough, is genuinely looking much better. Today these putting surfaces really impressed by their smoothness and trueness. And that’s worth coming back for. My son, whose opinions accorded pretty much with mine, agreed that this should be on our rota. (By the way, he birdied eight today by chipping in, though that’s not his sole reason for liking Minnechaug).

Maybe this course doesn’t quite have all the ingredients for perfection just yet, but it’s honing in rapidly on superiority. It’s managed well, lots of fun to play, and adds splendid woodland scenery on every hole.

Great experience. Staff was extremely friendly and well prepared given the circumstances (Covid-19). Carts were clean and in great condition. Course was very nice and also in good shape. Very reasonable rates. I will definitely be back to play here again.

Fun layout. Beautiful scenery. Definitely some difficulty here. Had a blast.

This was my first time playing here! This course was good. Very well maintained fairways. Challenging but not overly difficult. Very friendly staff.