#1 at Ponkapoag Golf Club

Ponkapog is what George Wright was when I was growing up; an unkept jewel. The layout of the course is excellent with a great variety of holes with challenges for every golfer.

With few exceptions the greens were the worst I've ever played on, the fairways played more like the first cut of rough and the tee boxes looked like they had been just strafed by fighter planes.

If you want a place to practice your game from tee through the end of the fairway, you can't beat the price but you can't include putting as part of your practice day.

Have played this course in the past but never thought it would be as bad as this day ! Shocked that this Municipal course has been let go as bad as this. The only good thing was the newer carts that they had available. Course#2 is in horrendous shape and we were disappointed that it’s come under such disrepair. Thought we could get some swings in to start the season but the rough and the greens are so bad it’s hard to know how good or bad we did😏 We were better chipping on the green rather than putting because the surface was so spotty with sand and dirt.

Hard no to recommending this course!!

Great for the value. Greens and tee boxes were in rough shape but the season just started so who knows.

Greens were really in bad shape. Sand bunkers everywhere on the greens

This course is an example of what you get when government takes things over... Complete ineptitude and utter denigration. This place has lost all respect for itself. They have completely given up. It's time for us to give up as well.

You could pay me to play Here again.

Great Layout,

making this a CHALLENGING (not easy) overall course.

The CATCH is:

the “Greens” are neglected, not kept up and in terrible condition…

which is a SHAME, because the “COURSE” is challenging

(tee to green).

This poses as a course with “Great-Possibility” if only

someone there can put additional resources into “caring” for the greens condition…

(put more resources on “THE GREENS…)

(don’t expect to work on your “putting-game” here)

Great “value” though

I’ll be back!

I paid for a round of golf 18 holes with a cart, and was told that I could only use the card for nine holes because my tee time at 12:30 PM, and you can only use the cart For 18 holes if you book your tee time before 11 AM.. I would like to have a refund for this round of golf. Thanks.

I made a hole in one on Course 2 -hole 11.

So loved the course!!

I've played here in the past back in 2005 & 2006 for high school golf against Blue Hills vocational tech school. I hadn't been here for years and wanted to play it. Originally they had renovated & restored all the holes back in 2014 or 2015. Im not sure what the conditions of the course is like in May, June. July, August. & Early to mid September. But when I played on October 21, 2024, it looks like the course is just not maintained all that well. The golf carts are old. Ponkapoag has massive potential to be such a beautiful golf course. I mean Canton itself is a nice town. Problem is as of right now the state owns the course & DCR does the maintenance for the golf course. That place needs brand new ownership. If I had the money, I would buy that golf course. Definitely a brand new maintenance team, newer maintenance equipment, have up to date golf carts, I would remodel the whole main building. I can just vision what Ponkapoag should really look like.

People were great, the course was rough. Kind of like playing in a buddy’s back yard. Limitless potential with the layout so hopefully they can do some good things to improve it. Expect 5+ hour rounds

There is no fairways only rough. The “greens” are fairways at most bad courses.

Cheap course that we booked last minute, it was in such AWFUL condition that it was actually laughable and fun. I’ll definitely never forget that round and course condition

It wasn’t until I actually teed off from the first hole of the second golf course that I realized that I entered golf heck.

As a state run course, I am embarrassed for my Commonwealth. I almost want excuse the lack of rain for the conditions of this course, however, there is no doubt that the greenskeeper expired four months ago, as nothing has been done about any issues across the course.

I can deal with Sandy Green’s, but when one of the greens is half mud and half sand and I’m not sure where it begins and where it ends I don’t think I’m the one that’s at fault nor can I blame Mother Nature.

I will say that the quality of pace of play is only slow when the golfer in front of you is hitting four balls per turn and gives you the attitude that it’s your fault you’ve caught up to them. There is no management there is no direction, and the biggest disappointment is, that is absolutely a great course if it was managed better.

If I didn’t pay a discounted price to pay for this round, I would’ve been outraged and demanded my money back. Oh, check your golf cart before you go because some of their motors are “going”. I learned that while I was picking up my clubs from the car.

My biggest disappointment is not being able to upload the photos to show how bad this course actually is.