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3.9
432 Reviews (432)
5 Stars
93
4 Stars
232
3 Stars
70
2 Stars
23
1 Stars
14
Conditions
3.8
Value
4.2
Layout
4.1
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
4.1
Amenities
2.5
86.6%
Recommend this course
373 out of 432 reviews
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3.9
29 Reviews (29)
5 Stars
3
4 Stars
21
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
3.7
Value
4.4
Layout
4.2
Pace
4.3
Amenities
2.5
StaffFriendliness
4.6
89.7%
Recommend this course
26 out of 29 reviews
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3.9
56 Reviews (56)
5 Stars
11
4 Stars
35
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
3
Conditions
3.9
Value
4.3
Layout
4.1
Pace
4.1
Amenities
2.4
StaffFriendliness
4.7
87.5%
Recommend this course
49 out of 56 reviews
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Course Highlights
Garrison Lake's wide fairways and well-maintained conditions consistently impress golfers across recent visits. Exceptionally friendly staff and outstanding value make this a favorite worth returning to.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Style Parkland
Par 72
Length 7060 yards
Slope 128
Rating 73.7

Garrisons Lake Golf Club, nine miles north of Dover, is a historic play centrally located to all parts of Delaware. The course is nature friendly: with tree-lined fairways and large, well bunkered greens throughout. The par-72, 7,060-yard course was recently renovated and improved, and players of all abilities will be confronted with a fair challenge. Not that there aren’t hurdles. Garrisons Lake is book-ended by two long plays: The 535-yard, par-5 first features out of bounds along the left side, and the 536-yard 17th features a challenging tee shot with trees on the right side. Garrisons Lake Golf Club also has a bustling practice range, putting green, golf shop and snack bar.

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Course Details

Year Built 1962
Golf Season Year round
Architect Ed Ault (1962) Brian Ault (2008) James Cervone

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Bar, Snacks, Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse
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Reviews

3.9
432 Reviews (432)

What Golfers Are Saying

Course Challenges Include:
Narrow Fairways 9
Bunkers 8
Plays Long 6
This course/club is great for:
Locals 9
Advanced Golfers 7
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 9
Convenient to the City 8

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Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

Rough is rough!

Dont hit your ball out of the fairway. The grass there is not maintenance well at all. You can lose your ball only two feet off the cart path. Other than that its fine to me. Greens were in need of some love but they were just aerificated.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 13
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
1.0
Previously Played

This course is not what it use to be

Plenty of parking, but the club house was run out of a double wide trailer. The staff was very friendly and helpful. Over all this golf course was in Very poor condition not at all maintained. I play from the black tee boxes like most good players do and they were not even cut. The fairways were in decent shape but if you landed in the rough, your ball was literally lost in a jungle. The greens were in rough shape very bumpy with weeds growing in with the grass as well as a lot of dead grass areas. The sand traps were pretty hard. Also when I played only the front nine holes were open for play so ended up playing the front nine twice.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Slow pace of play

Played 18 today. Was stuck behind a group of 4 older players. They never asked once if I wanted to play through. I was playing by myself today and could have been done an hour earlier

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 53
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Would be a good course minus 300 trees

I had known about this course for some time but never played it until yesterday. For a state-run course it was in good shape, but the good layout is and playability are sacrificed in favor of leaving the forest untouched.

Overhanging tree limbs block fairway flight lines on nearly every hole and are amplified by a layout with many sharp doglegs. You can hit a shot that rolls out just into the rough (with relatively narrow fairways) or even into one side of the fairway or the other, and find your line to the pin completely blocked with low and/or high branches of gorgeous, majestic weeds.

To his credit, the desk attendant warned me (somewhat sheepishly) that anything into the trees was basically a two stroke penalty. If that was all it was, and the fairways were wider so that a mishit shot earned the demerit, The course would be a fair test. But even well played shots were penalized, if not two stroke in scoring opportunity, then one stroke for having to play below the trees with less carry.

This course would be a gem if they removed about 20 trees per hole (on average) and trimmed back an equal number of others. That way, players who work a draw or fade could play their game.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 27
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Great staff , great layout, greens are nice, tree lined fairways - a classic

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 25
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Greening Up Nicely

The course is really starting to look nice with the spring like weather. Greens are a bit slow, some holes still need to have some of the bigger trees trimmed and bunkers need some new sand. Otherwise the course is in great playing shape and it won’t disappoint.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 19
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Walked

A faster round of golf

This is a good course. Some holes are quite long and most of the holes favor a fad off the tee so quite difficult for me since I have a draw. The best thing I like about the course is the faster play. I have rarely had over a 4 hour round.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 25
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

Course showing potential

Played it last season and I would have only rated it 2 stars. This round it was definitely looking better but still has a lot of work to go.

Tee boxes: 4 stars, mostly flat and grass was nice.

Fairways/Rough: 3.5 stars, some holes were nice and then some holes had areas that needed to have work done. Some of the holes have trees that are way to big and should be cut down. (Hole 4).

Bunkers: 1 star, the bunkers where horrendous. Every single bunker needed new sand.

Greens: 4 stars, greens were in good shape. They were aerated a couples weeks ago and they came in nicely. They roll smoothly and the speed is medium.

Overall it’s a nice course with a fun layout. Clear out some more of the bigger trees and redo every bunker and this course would become a 4 star course.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 251
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 50 Contributor
Previously Played

Tough track

I have play here on and off for 30 years Have seen course ups and downs. Nice to see some work going on with clearing of trees. Hope they keep working because it need a lot of love. Tough par 3s. . . Airation of back 9.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

cold and windy

they are cutting down a lot of trees and have not done much to clean up the small branches and twigs. this has left the course in a pretty messy state. Most of the.sand traps need some attention but the greens are in great shape.

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 143
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
Incentivized Review
3.0
Golf Channel
Perfect weather
Walked
Conditions Average
Layout Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 61
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

aeration

When we arrived, we found out they were aerating the front nine and they kindly allowed us to play back nine twice. Back nine was in pretty good shape and we appreciated them allowing us to play that way, but we would have liked notice of aeration on golfnow.com when we booked our round.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
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Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

good value as hot deal

Course was in good shape for a public layout with the exception of the Bunkers they needed sand and some drainage improvements. staff was great and pace of play was good.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

GLGC

GLGC is a tree tree lined moderate length course of reasonable difficulty. The course is in truly great shape with the exception of some of the bunkers. Kurt is a great guy and his staff are are attentive and friendly.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

great local course

This course is a great value. The staff is friendly, and the course is in good shape. Some of the fairways could be cut a little closer, but overall it is well kept.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
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