Plum Creek Golf Club

The course condition was superb! Better markings to the next tee boxes would be helpful on several holes. Being our first time, we had a few wring turns.

Course was in great condition and very playable. Women’s member foursome in front of us was playing verrrrrry slow with open holes ahead of them but never offered to let our fast threesome play through on a very hot day, extending our round by ~30 mins. No ranger on duty.

I really like the layout of the course. It's challenging but fair. They have a great range and good facilities. The cost has risen significantly in the last few years which has lessened some of the appeal. But it's still one of my favorite layouts in the city.

Booked a 4:00 tee time with my family to get a break from our current club and do something different. The clubhouse was very nice in appearance. Staff was friendly.

We hopped in our carts and went to the practice green. The outdoor seating area had a group of guys sitting in a circle, yelling lots of obscenities. Employees were present, but not concerned… so we just took it as par for this course.

We get to the first tee box, which is basically just a few feet from the front drive. Had to time our tee shots in between the numerous cars pulling out behind us. While we were teeing at our scheduled time, there were already two twosomes waiting for us to go off. We had a couple foursomes in front of us, so we weren’t to let the twosomes thru. However, we knew we’d have people pressuring us from behind all day. (The two twosomes could have been paired together.)

As for the layout, the cart paths and gold tees don’t jive. Almost made us wonder if they added the gold tees after the course was designed. If you are in a cart, just play the blues. You’ll find it’s more convenient and enjoyable. Especially on hole 11…

The course is in good shape, but the greens are too slow. This leads to less break on the greens so it’s less challenging. What was challenging, was navigating our putts thru all the ballmarks that weren’t fixed. A true shame for such a beautiful course that has obviously had a lot of care by the greenskeepers.

We completed the front in just under 2 hours, but the back was really slow. We’d wait for clearance and then have to wait again, and again, on nearly every shot. We finished the back in 2.5 hours. The group in front of us left with one hole to go, so it might have been even longer.

Course is in great shape overall. As always, some bunkers are great and others are six sand pebbles from being concrete. Greens were very smooth and nice and fast; they always have great greens. Fairways are great too; not cut too tight and always well irrigated.

The weird items from last year are the cheap looking green plywood garbage cans covers, the spray-painted hole signs, and using dirt instead of sand on the chipping green. Really disappointing to see these three distasteful changes from 2022. I would consider this course close in quality to Prairie View (albeit much easier and less competitive environment) but these choices are made as if it’s a standard municipal course on a tight budget, and shouldn’t be decisions made by one of the best public courses in Carmel.

Spend the money on legitimate wood structures (like prairie view does) and use sand in the chipping area, not dirt.

I played this course for the first times with some buddies, we had to start off on the 10th Tee box, no biggie. We finished 9 in about 1 1/2 hours then headed to play on the front. A staff member came out yelling at us to return and play the back 9 again which was never established. Regardless from the knowledge I have of the back after playing it twice, the course is in good condition but in my opinion the layout is just not good and extremely boring. There are too many different courses around the area for the same price/cheaper that are better, do not play here.

3 generations playing together for a perfect evening.

Course was in good shape. Greens were rolling nice. Layout is pretty straight forward. They have a nice range and putting green for warming up. I’ll be back.

Course was average in terms of layout. Nothing spectacular. However, the fairways and greens were in great shape with the greens putting true and above average speed. Bar and Snack bar were very good, staff at check in was very friendly. Driving range and practice area were excellent. I would play here again, especially if I got the Golf Now price.