Old Orchard Country Club

Not real long but a challenge always. Greens in great shape but sand needs a little work. Played from the tips. Could use more distance markers. Tough to find on course, maybe some on cart paths. Overall good experience.

Course was in great shape, Greens fast and true. When we showed up a Fivesome of older women were teeing off, so the staff suggested we start on ten. Great call because we moved right along and finished in 4 hrs.

There was an outing that teed off before our round. The head pro asked us to wait till our tee time prior to teeing off . We were 30 minuets early and he didn't want us to catch up and wait on the course. We happily complied and played a 4:15 minuet round on a Sunday afternoon. Nice! Great communication from the head pro.

Booked on golf now and when we showed up there was a High School Scramble in progress and they put us on hole #6 and we agreed but when we approached hole 11 we had caught up to some in the scramble and the ranger put us on 14. Ok we overall have an understanding nature and both have kids about this age and albeit they were all well behaved it was very frustrating to zig zag and try and play a complete round. Staff and facilties were great overall but the scamble put a damper on the day? If your going to book tee times and have events then please find a way to communicate this somehow prior to accepting bookings please? thats all.

Respectfully

It was a first time ever playing the course and I have always wanted to play it. It was a really nice course. very tight fairways and shot shaping is premium.

Upon showing up, the starter was friendly as he greeted me. The pro shop check in was smooth and professional. I actually got out early and had a great round on a gorgeous and extremely well maintained course. Other than grounds keepers being in the way the first 5 holes, it was a nice, comfortable round of golf. I was very impressed, as it was my first time here. Will be back again.

You can tell that at one point, this was a booming country club... However, this course is a shell of what it used to be.

$65 is a steep price for this course. I would play it again at a considerable discount, but not $65.

Rough is long and unkempt. Difficult to find balls, which slowed the pace of play down. Shaggy greens - Several putts redirected by ball marks that weren't fixed, and hardly any putts broke at all.

9/10 traps you see are filled with wasps. I hit the ball in a few traps, and it was pretty insane to see how many were in there. I had to take an unplayable every time.

We didn't see a beverage cart the entire time we played. No starter, which caused confusion at the tee box.

It would be tough to get me back to this course.

Two very slow groups in front

Where's the ranger to speed them up?

I have played this course once before. It is a fun course on many holes and it requires some thinking on where to place your drives if you want to have a chance to hit the greens in regulation. Most of the greens are small so must hit straight shots. A couple of holes are boarder line unfair for driving such as holes number 9, 12 and 18 all from the back tees . I pared all three holes but had to hit perfect drives on each to do so.

Fairly difficult due to tight fairways, protected flags and trees and water everywhere. The grounds were well maintained but the tee boxes should be flatter and mowed down. Rough was very thick, but I guess that's my fault for being in there in the first place! I would recommend this course to mid to low handicappers.