The Lakes/The Ridge at Ironwood Golf Club

This has always been a pretty cool course with a challenging layout, but had gone downhill for awhile. Kudos to the current employees for bringing it back up to better than ever! Playing in November I wasn’t expecting much, but was shocked at
How good it was compared to prior years.

Impressed with conditions and speed of greens this late in the year. Can tell a lot of work has been done on the course lately.

Pleasantly surprised with the condition and speed of the greens for this time of year. Has some really challenging holes, but some easier ones. 6 & 7 Lakes may be the best 2 hole stretch in Indiana. Can tell a lot of work has gone into the course in the last couple of years.

The course was in good condition and it offered an average golfer a good challenge. The greens were in excellent shape. The course staff were very friendly and the experience playing there was well worth the cost. I will be back.

Played the Lakes and the Ridge 9's. Lakes was hard, Ridge more forgiving. Course was in excellent shape, not sure what happened in the past as this was my first time playing here. Will come back again. No opinion on the Valley 9 as I have yet to play it.

Just played this afternoon. Absolutely HORRENDOUS and UNACCEPTABLE conditions... I was a member at this course a few years ago and hadn't the course in awhile. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE save your $40+ (RIPOFF) and go ELSEWHERE! Fairways were 2-3 inches long and entire course looked as if it hadn't been mown in 8-9 days. This place is going to pot. Sad to see but can't say I'm surprised. This just seems to be par for the course for this facility sadly... and, oh yeah, don't plan to practice any chipping before your round because the short game area is COMPLETELY overgrown. And, one more thing, the greens on the course are AWFUL. I'm an avid golfer and I play A LOT of golf. These greens are the slowest I can remember playing EVER. Around a 5 on the stimp meter. JUST PLEASE DO NOT PLAY HERE! I'll never go back again. This facility is a DISGRACE to the city of Fishers.

Played the valley/lakes 9 and the course is in horrible shape. Fairways are patchy at best, mostly mud/dirt. Rough isn't too much better. Even the greens are very patchy and bumpy with some greens having nearly half the surface bereft of grass. Not quite as bad as Heartland Crossing on the other side of town, but close. Ranger did nothing to push along a slow group that was holding up the entire course. Even with a couple holes having some character (like 6 Lakes), $44 to play here, even on a weekend, is a joke with these conditions. Do yourself a favor and don't make the mistake we made if you care about conditions.

Played course friday July 6th, it is so much better than last year. Looks like a lot of work has been done since last summer. Great layout as always. Very challenging course. Played the Valley and Lakes 9.

Played in an outing Tue. Weather was awesome, windy, but great.

I don't play here in stroke play, only in outings over the last few years. A few themes have emerged from year to year....

I like the layout: there are some fun and challenging holes out here, requiring placement tee shots, some narrow approaches and the bunkering is fairly placed. There are a few holes that will definitely challenge your game. The par 3s hold up well. I like the green sizes, elevations, even if a little slow. The staff is always nice, the facilities are fair, clean.

The regular problems are persistent: tee boxes haven't been leveled in a while; the fairways and greens routinely have burned out spots. Bunkers are usually in C-minus conditions. The rough is generally pretty consistent, so actually a plus. The range is a strip of green carpet with scrub grass around it, so only for a few loose swings.

I think they've got too much in cart paths/asphalt. They definitely are mowing and maintaining too much grass (around tees, unused areas, etc). They have areas of heather on the course, they should definitely consider more. They can stand to have some tree management too, nothing crazy, but to improve a few site lines. They have 27 holes, run a lot of outings, perhaps not surprisingly. I think if they took the 27h budget to just 18h, they could really make the place a solid Indy-area choice.

I just would like to see them achieve their potential. There are a lot of courses in the area that will be better for comparable money.

Tee boxes had not been mowed. Greens burnt in places and slow. Bumpy greens, bunkers in horrible shape. On top of that 5 hrs plus round

I tried to give them a third chance but this course is just not worth playing and I live in the neighborhood.

I've played this course for a long time and its sad to see the state its in now. The course is in horrible shape. The bunkers are basically mud/dirt pits. The greens are choppy, and the fairways are usually burnt. This course can/should be one of the better public courses in Indy but it is just too poorly taken care of. I hope it changes, but I've been hoping that for far too long.

First time I have played Ironwood. Played years ago when it was the old Mudcreek golf course. Holes seemed long although it was hard to tell as the GPS on our cart did not work. Lots of places to get into trouble - water and woods. Course was not very well marked in spots - sometimes it was hard to know where to go next. The cart we had was very old and tired - did not make it through the round. We had to call the clubhouse and they brought us another cart.

Staff is friendly and course was in good condition. Traps are not numerous but were like cement. A fairway was very wet and sloppy. Greens and fairways were in generally excellent condition.

Tee boxes weren't in good condition. Fairways and greens were in good condition.

The course wasn't it good condition, and the round took OVER FIVE AND A HALF HOURS! When it was brought to the attention of the pro shop at the turn, they asked me..."well what do you want me to do?" The experience was awful. I have played there a few times, but 100% will never return!

Ridge Course tee boxes and fairways need grass.
Lakes Course was in better shape.
Fun courses to play.
Staff is friendly and courteous.

Ironwood is a great golf course moderately challenging. However, I had great concern about the brakes on the carts. After trying 2 different carts that had bad brakes, a gal walking by said, "Oh, none of the carts have any brakes". So we took one of the carts. With the brakes into full lock, the cart would still travel approximately 25 feet. Quite scary when traveling down a hill. On the basis of that I won't go back.

I played Ironwood several times 2 years ago, a couple times last year, and now twice this year. Sadly, the course condition has gone downhill significantly this year. At least half the fairways were under repair, or poorly cut, and several greens were diseased or in bad shape otherwise. On top of that, the front desk person was not friendly or helpful. I loved this course 2 years ago but now I am discouraged from using it. I will give it another try this year but only thanks to a groupon deal.