Quarry Ridge Golf Course

Beautiful May day around noontime and literally felt like we were the only ones on a well groomed course. Fairways were a bit hard but did allow for some of my farthest drives. Greens seemed mostly consistent throughout all 18 holes. The only beef I have is No Driving Range!! C-mon!!!

This course is in great shape. The fairways and greens are great. The tee placement is fair for all. This is my second time at Quarry Ridge and I had a great time. The staff are friendly. The views are great.

Greens were in excellent condition and rolled very fast. Some of the tee boxes could use a little work especially #3 blue. Course has great potential and is always a challenge. Will definitely be back soon.

Overall the course was good. Greens were in good shape while the tees and some of the fairways need a little rain and work. Tough layout but a lot of fun different holes. For the money they charge I’d recommend to others and return again.

Was a 55 degree windy day so no crowds. We had a a great time course was in great condition. Some rough spots off to the sides of the fairways and greens but that was fine with me

Once again, I enjoyed a round at Quarry Ridge. Some details:

Straight Driving: Par-4s and 5s

Over the fifteen fairways, a relatively straight drive is almost essential on the longer holes. True, you may work the ball with a gentle draw or fade off many tees, but those prone to hooking or slicing my be in for a long day, unless they possess nearly magical recovery skills from awkward lies in the woods, on steep downslopes, or around the ubiquitous boulders, ledges, and other outcroppings. This is not to say the course is unfair–not at all–but each time here I’ve found that its relative shortness (6,049 blues; 6,389 black tees) is offset by such adequate compensations. Most of the other challenges, though, are found on and around the slopy, speedy greens.

Strategic Play:

On several holes, Quarry Ridge blends strategic design with the overall premium placed on straight driving. A couple of examples on the front side: the third hole, a par-4, on which a drive flown down the left side, not the right, keeps you from running out of the fairway’s real estate; then the seventh, another four-par, where laying up with something less than a driver will likely stave off the kind of unpredictable or excessive bounce off either the huge right-side granite outcropping or the steeper left-side downslope that funnels balls into the rough.

Other Key Aspects:

Well-designed greens impress by their variety of movement, including both back-to-front and front-to-back elevation changes, along with numerous drop-offs near edges. A few doglegs on par-4s lend some extra driving dimension, but the course’s trademark is its balance of uphill and downhill tee shots. Also adding some punch: raised green sites of all sizes, plus a few greens set down a bit or relatively on-grade with fairway levels.

To my mind, QR’s signature hole has to be the short yet remarkably difficult sixth, a par-5 played from a tee that plunges some 70-80 feet downward, where your drive will land–you’re hoping–on a tightish, well-trapped fairway. Yet the biggest difficulties on this hole begin on the putting green.

Impressive Par-3s:

Hole two mahy be short, but its putting surface is hard to see from the tee. Nine, a gem, will require a mid-iron from the tee for most golfers; its green is well-protected. My favorite, though, is fourteen, which starts from a high tee, trundling down a steep hill to a heavily undulating green–partly fronted by a pond. Green sixteen sits atop a prominent, granite-faced hill that looks as imposing as an NFL middle linebacker.

A Singular Feature:

It’s the granite. After the sixth hole, huge rock outcroppings emerge almost everywhere, forming virtual walls alongside some of the fairways, serving as ominous backdrops or even small amphitheaters around greens, pestering your tee shots on some of the fairway margins or in roughs, littering greenside areas in scattered ‘chunks.’ I had no run-ins with the rocks today, which seemed like good fortune. Hearing your golf ball ping off granite may leave a sinister ring in the ears. I did not hear this peculiar sound from the threesome in front of me, as they played the sixteenth and I the fifteenth, but saw one of their golf balls–apparently having richocheted off rock-face–come to rest on the edge of green fifteen. This left the player with a recovery shot holding little promise for an up-and-down par.

The quarry itself, which opened around 1840 and closed some 114 years later, was mined for feldspar, mica, quartz, beryl, and gemstones. Fencing along the 18th fairway’s left flank, as well as behind green thirteen, appears to seal it off well from over-curious bystanders. It seems inhabitable now for creatures mainly like birds or (had they access) mountain lions.

Conditions:

Decent for mid-spring, yet unremarkable. The fairways and roughs just need to grow more grass, as several of the fairway landing zones were patchy. A strong point today: very good, smoothly rolling greens, making for predictable putts.

Conclusions:

Its driving challenges are stern, its granite outcroppings are sometimes mean, the greens can slope cruelly in places, and yet, as if offering you some recompense for all of this, Quarry Ridge may require only short irons or wedges on many approach shots. You always have a good chance to card a birdie, or perhaps two or three. Great fun, and well worthwhile.

Greens were pretty good for this early in the season. Tee boxes need some help but grass has not grown in yet. Played in 3.5 hours, fantastic!! New staff is very nice.

Conditions were a bit rough, it is early in the season so definitely give them a pass on that.

We play QRidge many times a year, if you are playing well you can score, if you are having a bad day, well you better have plenty of golf balls.

Nice layout need work fairways greens good hope owners ps game

A nice switch up from most of the flatter Ct courses. Fairways still a little wet but overall course is in decent shape. Will definitely be back!