#2 at Ponkapoag Golf Club

Course new to GolfNow which was great - easy to book a tee time and offered an online rate which seemed reasonable ($42 with cart). GolfNow offered mobile check-in...beautiful. I clicked and checked in and paid. Arrived at course and attempted to get a key to the cart and was questioned about not paying. Actually showed the confirmation from golfnow...not good enough apparently. Pulled up my actual bank online and showed the payment (shows as pending as I use my debit card linked to golfnow) - was questioned again. Finally he had us go (after saying what time is your tee time and it was now 5 minutes away as he had kept us there questioning us and then had the gall to say "well you better get going". Uh, we tried.

No food or beverages available at all on the course.

Now the course. HORRID greens. I usually say that I am not good enough to get too picky about conditions BUT...should greens have tufts of grass growing all around them? Should they have mounds on sand on them? Fluffy grass on them? Worst greens I have ever seen. Women's tees are in the middle of the fairway and barely visible. Course is not well marked. Will never be back. Save yourself the headache and pay a few dollars more and head to Norwood Country Club 10 minutes down the road. Or pay a bit more and hit Brookmeadow in Canton. If this had the option of 0 starts that is what I would give it.

The course is well designed and the course conditions have improved every year especially the last three years.

The greens are just ok but again improving. They have spent a lot of time cutting back overgrowth of the fairways and you are starting to see the design of the holes.

The staff is pleasant and works hard to ensure you get out there quickly to play.

The price is good ($17.00) but not worth ($40.00) to play golf here.

This golf course probably used to be a very good before, but now seems like nobody taking care of it .

Worst maintained course I ever played. I played Course 2.

First and last time playing there. This is another poorly run public course. Not in good condition. Neither the scorecard or hole signs showed the hole layout. It lacked signs in many places to show the way to the next hole. Be sure to bring what you need to play because the pro shop won’t have it. Despite paying for 18, I left after 9 holes.