The Timbers at Troy

I play here a lot. Like the layout and it is just a fun course. Today some of the fairways have bad condition but doesn’t really matter to me much.

Played Timbers yesterday for the first time in five years, hoping it had improved some in my time away. Used to play here often in the early 2000s, and stopped when its conditioning slowly deteriorated. This course was never great. It’s a bad layout and it obviously lacks the kind of funding needed to properly maintain the course, but man is it bad. The fairways are complete muck. They clearly don’t drain well, and the course makes almost no effort to fill in divots. Vegetation off the fairways is completely overgrown, likely untouched in 15 years. I’m sure this place would love to blame its current woes on COVID complications but it’s just a bad track. To fix it would require a total overhaul, better drainage and a ton of tree maintenance. A friend of mine had his son with him and so he inquired about a cart for nine holes at twilight. The course told him it would be $36 more for the two of them to ride nine holes together. It’s madness that Howard County, one of the richest counties in the US, has its main public track that is this bad.

Course only advertises the walking rate - charges $25 to ride solo or $18 to share carts. Course itself was in terrible shape. It just rained the night before, so I give them a little bit of a break. Fringe had long grasses growing all over it and the greens were chewed up from ball marks. We were the 3rd group off, so I can’t blame it on groups ahead of us. Course could be nice, but it seems like they don’t take pride in keeping it in top shape. Do yourself a favor and spend your money elsewhere

The course was in fair condition. Fairways need to be aerated, greens in good shape. Just not happy with what has been done this year for golf rates with this automatic increase in greens fees to offset losses from Covid and increased demand for single carts. Courses need to be smart in the offseason to adjust to the market and investigate other more affordable cart options.

Is a nice course, with friendly staff. However, Kemper Sports, or Howard County (who owns the course) is not really taking care. They spent millions of $ a few years ago and re-did the bunkers. Now they're crap, as simple basic maintenance is not being done. Is it too much to ask that they be (machine) raked once a day? No one replaces divots, or fixes ball marks on the greens, which has led to little maintenance of the course, other than to cut the grass! Save your money (as it is pricey), and other public courses are better maintained.

During this unfortunate pandemic the staff at Timbers have demonstrated true professionalism in following safety guidelines intelligently. I have played here 4 times during the pandemic; each time the staff have been fully masked up and behind plexiglass in the Pro Shop and the Lunch counter. They have hand sanitizer available right at the front door and 6ft markers. The course is also in great shape.

The rates are deceiving. Almost every other course on this app and many others show the rate with cart included. Timbers is a great course but they advertise these seemingly low priced tee times and then you’re slapped with a $15 cart fee when you get there. This is one of my favorite courses. But for a municipal course, it’s a bit on the pricey end

Course has a lot of twists and turns off the tee, so only hit driver a few times, so course management is key. Condition of course was very good. Greens were nice condition, but many previous golfers don’t repair their ball marks, so lazy and liberal of them. Overall a great course to play!

The course is in great condition. The tee boxes make you think before leaping but they are fair. A friendly staff and timely amenities made for a fun round.

The staff is professional, helpful and very friendly, the course was in pretty good shape (minus the 1st hole) .. just be prepared to pay another $20 bucks as they do not follow the rates quoted by the online golf apps. Middle of July weekday at midday and I had many options to play courses in several counties and I left my circle of courses to come out to Howard County. The course was wide open, so I got in a fast round with temperatures pushing 100!

The course was very well layed out and offered great risk reward challenges. Definitely cant wait to play again