Oak Hills Park Golf Course

I had played this course a few times over the years, and while it is quirky, with some dogs legs that are shorter than expected, it was a good track with excellent greens. It is now the ultimate dog track with way too many patches of dirts, where there should be grass. The typical green is heart breaking, with many sections with little or no grass. I will not be playing it again unless there is a change in management. Very sad outcome for an interesting course.

If you're not from Norwalk don't expect the starter or others to be very friendly. The starter is smoking a cigar and not wearing a facemask. Obviously been there a long time and not going to change. Very grumpy. Guy getting carts was upset because the carts weren't moving from the "staging" area as he called it. We couldn't go anywhere since the other 4-some was on the tee. When you start a round with 2 grumpy employees it's not a good first impression. Course itself was fun.

Jim is top shelf as a person and a master Greenskeeper

Had a great day. Weather was perfect, staff was helpful to one of our members who was a bit older. - who knew there were "handicapped" golf carts. Unfortunately, darkness didn't allow us to play the entire 18. My bad.

Starter was a little rough but the rest was great.

Great shape and great layout not too short and not too long

The first 7 holes and back 9 are stunning views and lanscaping. Quite challenging and fun. The course warden does a great job of moving players along.

The greens are in great shape, depending on skill level this course does not require a driver off of each tee. Fortunately we were able to play a round on the 4:20 pace which is rare for public courses in Fairfield County.

I’m normally not one to complain about any round of golf, we were very lucky to be out there. However, the rangers and starters at this course act like they’re doing you a huge favor letting you on this municipal golf course. Right from the beginning we walked up to the starter very friendly, he doesn’t say a word but “go up to the box”, okay no problem maybe he’s just having a bad day, also note we were on time and following and restrictions the course may have. He never even mentioned we were playing with the guys in front of us, which is fine we knew that and introduced ourselves, he never told them either so they were surprised. Again no big deal. When it became a problem was on the sixth hole, one bolt of lightning struck maybe 30 miles away, wasn’t even close and the thunder was well after. So they call everyone off the course, again that’s fine if you want to be cautious. So the starter and now a ranger with a similar attitude are essentially demanding everyones to go up on the deck they have, so there’s like 60 people up there during COVID so we figured it’s not raining we will just hang out down here. There’s no lightning, or no rain for the entirety of the delay, and the whole time I’m witnessing these guys be so rude to all their paying customers. One guy said “I have a tee time for 130” and the starter said “no you don’t, no ones going out on the course”. It hadn’t rained, thundered or lightning in at least 30 mins, it was getting close to an hr. Meanwhile the Sargents hadn’t given their prisoners any updates the entire time on how long we’d wait between lightning strikes, on what they were basing their choice off of (it actually never ended up raining for more then 5 mins that day). So people decide to leave and there ends up being a long wait for rain checks cause their computer system also kept crashing (I actually felt bad for the young girl because she was one nice person at the course).

As someone who works hard, long, hrs like most. The last place you’d expect to be treated this way is a golf course. I hope these old boys will read this and just retire if they are so miserable to check boxes off on a piece of paper all day. I cannot imagine treating a customer this way.

Enjoy your rounds! Go to Pound Ridge if you’re looking for golf in the area and are willing to pay a bit more for an amazing experience.