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2.2
315 Reviews (315)
5 Stars
14
4 Stars
36
3 Stars
76
2 Stars
56
1 Stars
133
Conditions
1.7
Value
2.9
Layout
3.6
Friendliness
3.7
Pace
3.2
Amenities
2.4
38.1%
Recommend this course
120 out of 315 reviews
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2.3
19 Reviews (19)
5 Stars
1
4 Stars
0
3 Stars
8
2 Stars
5
1 Stars
5
Conditions
1.7
Value
3.0
Layout
3.8
Pace
3.6
Amenities
2.8
StaffFriendliness
3.5
36.8%
Recommend this course
7 out of 19 reviews
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2.4
60 Reviews (60)
5 Stars
5
4 Stars
8
3 Stars
15
2 Stars
10
1 Stars
22
Conditions
1.8
Value
3.1
Layout
3.9
Pace
3.3
Amenities
2.6
StaffFriendliness
3.8
41.7%
Recommend this course
25 out of 60 reviews
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Course Highlights
The course layout stands out as one of the more distinctive designs in the area, offering memorable scenery throughout the round. Friendly staff and affordable value make this an appealing option for budget-conscious golfers.

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Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Par 72
Length 6742 yards
Slope 130
Rating 73.2
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Ponkapoag Golf Course
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Course Details

Year Built 1936
Fairways Blue Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Open: 4/01 Closed: 11/15
Architect Donald Ross (1936)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $35
Pull-carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill
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2.2
315 Reviews (315)
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Reviews 29
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great Layout; Poor conditions

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.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 77
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
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Played On
Reviews 20
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Awful

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!!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Poor green and tee box

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

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
First Time Playing

Not great

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

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
First Time Playing

Government is the problem

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.

Played On
Reviews 20
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens 4 out of 10 / Tee to Green 8 out of 10

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!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 77
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Only nine holes

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.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course is improving. Playing hard and fast in November.

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

So loved the course!!

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

The course has potential

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.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
First Time Playing

Lower your expectations.

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

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Used cart
Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Previously Played

A joke?

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

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Fun if you’re drinking

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

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 77
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

I couldn’t tell if this was a joke or not

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.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
First Time Playing

Do not play here

By far the worst course I have ever played. The conditions were awful. You could not putt on the greens because there were holes filled with sand.

I paid for a cart but they wouldn’t let us take one, and his only explanation was that he personally didn’t receive any money so he didn’t care.

Even though it is a cheap course, it is still a waste of money. Do not play here

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
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