Coffin Golf Club

Great inexpensive place to play 18 holes of golf and a course that is a bit challenging for a public course. Was in better shape this spring, but the overall conditions have been improving in the recent years.

I read a lot of the older reviews and they almost had me not take a chance on this round, but I booked a Hot Deal and gave it a whirl. I'm glad I did, because it was actually in pretty good shape. Cashier in the pro shop sent me off as soon as I arrived (45 minutes early) to join a two-some, and it turned out that we were pretty similar playing abilities and age. Had a nice round (82 from the whites) for a course I'd never even heard of until the night before.

First time playing Coffin. I first noticed how easy it was to lose my golf balls (I'm a new golfer) with the tight trees and fairways. It opens up as you progress through the course, however.

$44 to play with a cart, personally, seems too high of an ask. Fairways and greens had a surprising amount of leaves on them that made locating your shot a bit more time consuming. The staff were very friendly and helpful. I wouldn't tell anyone to not play here - at least once, sure. But why wouldn't you play Eagle Creek for this kind of a$king price?

We played coffin on a weekend in July. I think we paid $42 with a cart. We overpaid by $42. I liked the layout, but it was in horrible shape. Standing water everywhere, crab grass, poor greens. Overpriced and underworked. Exactly what I'd expect from government run course.

On my late season round course conditions were fine for a muni. I enjoyed the terrific layout, wild greens and bunkering that remain. The use of the hilly portions of the property well.

As with all of the previous Tim Liddy courses, I thoroughly enjoyed this one too!

I grew up close to this course and became familiar with it's rolling terrain and majestic trees at an early age and with it's overall beauty rarely found in a city course. In the 90'a the course took on some major changes,but the beauty remained and the challenges of the course were increased making one of my favorite places play and to bring friends.

Being a municipal course unfortunately it does not get all of the attention it truly deserves,but it is still worth taking the time to enjoy this age old beauty not more than 2 to 3 miles from downtown Indy.

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Coffin belongs in a coffin. This course is a dump from start to finish. If you like crab grass, this is your kind of place as it's everywhere, including all tee boxes, "fairways" and rough - of which it was almost impossible to tell between the fairway/rough since neither were mowed and it was all crab grass. If there wasn't crab grass, it was because there was no grass from extensive water damage. The greens are beat to heck too.with almost all of them having large bare patches that were impossible to putt through.

The layout has potential if they took care of it, such as the holes along the river (5-7), and 13-15 which were nice with elevation change. But the course is in such awful shape that I would not recommend getting close to it, let alone playing it if you value your time and money. I paid $35 to ride 18, and it was $34,99 too much for this place. I can't even recommend it to learn upon for beginners in this shape. Run far away from this place.

Used to be an enjoyable layout. Have let course deteriorate to crabgrass all over fairways and tees. Why does Indy Parks department allow the lessor of course have such deplorable conditions.

Enjoyed except for the rain. I will certainly come back.

This is a tough time of year to provide a review - October - as it was a little windy and there were leaves all over the place making it hard to find the ball and putt. I expected the course to be in better shape, but there were many bare spots and the tee boxes were quite rough. Greens were generally good, although they were recently cut. I got a deal on GolfNow, that is what drew me there, but I would want to see improvements in the course to be drawn back.

I was looking forward to playing Coffin as I had already played Riverside and South Grove. Like the layout, greens were great as was staff. The fairways, well there were none. Had to search for a patch of grass to hit from in the middle of every fairway bar number one. Way over priced for the conditions

Played in the rain which may have affected pace of play. Fairways had many bare spots and we had to use several forward tees because others were being seeded. Most greens were in great shape.

First round at Coffin in a couple of years, course is atypical of the area - unique layout along a river with some elevation changes. A few big changes - a Foot Golf course has been incorporated int the front 9; a redesign of the big downhill par 5 15th hole; and a number of big trees down from the storms this summer. All-in-all Coffin delivers as a better than usual muni(just play the painfully plain South Grove across the river for comparison). Except for where there's been standing water in the low areas, fairways are in good shape, greens are true and as with so many area tracks, bunkers could use some love. Coffin has a few less-than- distinctive holes, but the good ones really stand out.

Coffin should not be open. Their were trees down all over the course due to recent storms. The 1st fairway was totally mud. The grass hadnt been cut for weeks on some holes and it was like a recently cut hay field. The rough was so high in spots that the ball was unplayable. There was not one bunker with sand and playable. We wanted to leave after the front nine...

Course is struggling to recover from flooding. Some fairways in tough shape. Greens in good shape. Course needs a couple of weeks of dry weather and maintenance. It is a beautiful place.