Eighteen at Riverside Golf Club

Way overbooked, started 30 minutes late, took 5 hours to finish

I started playing this course regularly in 2022. Ten minute drive from home, can ALWAYS get a tee time almost any time of day (odd considering the course is always super busy), and for $35 for 18 holes it's hard to beat. I've learned to play the course really well and have shot my best rounds ever here probably for that reason. That said, there are a few things that make it not always super fun. Here's a list of pros/cons:

Pros:

- Great value for the price

- Greens are usually perfect even through the winter, honestly some of the best kept greens in the metro area

- Quick service at the bar for food/drink, good options, and great prices

- Marshall at the first green is very professional and on top of things

- On a day with good pace I've finished 18 holes in 2.5 hours playing solo

Cons:

- Carts are pretty crummy, gotta choke them to get them going pretty often (heyooo)

- Course is called Riverside for a reason, it's next to the river. For that reason, terrible drainage, so often standing water for several days after a rain, and so more often that no it is cart path only.

- Lot of boneheads on this course. Will wait for green to clear but then duff it and rehit and duff it again

- The river road must be a popular place for hotrodding. One local with a street bike loves to fly up and down the street all day every day and it's the noisiest backfiring motorcycle known to man. Some regular Corvettes involved in all this as well.

- People will often honk their car horn during your swing as they're driving by

- Feels like there is zero understanding of ettiquette by most players. Walking across your fairway to hit their sliced tee shot and not paying attention to the fact you were about to take your swing. Etc.

- No course marshal managing pace of play

- Not uncommon to see a group of 6-8 playing together and clogging things up

Despite the lopsidedness of my pros/cons list, I'd still recommend the course if you're looking for an easy or quick outing with a handful of challenging greens and plenty of water and sand hazards.

This is a reasonably priced course that is fun to play with some well designed water holes. The tee boxes are always a touch hard and man oh man is there a lot of geese but the price is pretty fair for the experiene.

Had 11:51 tee time. Didn't get to tee off till 12:25. Singles playing and not paired up. No Marshall see all day. People cutting in front from other fairways playing extra holes.

You get what you pay for.

It’s a goat track but the owner Walt is a great guy who tries very hard. The staff is nice.

It’s a fun place to hack it around for 4 hours. IF you are a serious golfer please adjust your expectations or just stay away. 😄

I’ll be back!

Rude staff. No fairways. Staff member forced me to hit into golfers in front of me. Ended up going about 20 yds past them thankfully. Unless it's your 1st year golfing, I would not play this course.

Lot of the course was flooded, mud all over. Need to try going again when weather is better. That was my bad.

I’ve played this course multiple times through the last few months. Especially as a newer golfer it’s an easy course to remember, pace of play can be hit or miss but my most recent time it was great, not very long waits on tee times, or anything. Clubhouse check in was easy and quick, does looks like they were trimming some branches and had a lot of leaves around but course was in decent condition for what I expected. I would come back and play, and usually do with multiple friends, it isn’t as top tier as a private club, but for something on the cheaper side, it isn’t a bad deal for a round of 18. Greens were great this time around but have played when they punched and sometimes can be slow. I have developed the tendency to play first thing in the morning which seems to be the best.

We started just after sunrise and had an enjoyable round, although we did have to battle the wind a bit. The tee boxes were very dry and not in that good a shape. The course was also very dry (not unexpected for this time of year) and allowed for a lot of run after the ball hit. Best part of our round was my son getting a hole-in-one on #14 (over the water). Made it a very exciting round for both of us!!

As you can see from the date I played late in the season and they were winterizing trimming trees so there were piles of branches around a lot of trees. I fortunately never hit my ball in any of the piles. The greens were still good the fairway’s were brown but it’s October so I don’t mind. The view of the bluffs across the meremac river was beautiful. The pace of play was amazing. I was in a group of 3 and we played 18 in 4 hours and 15 minutes. This place does NOT over book like some course do. It’s not the best course in area but it’s fairly close reasonable. If you want to spend 60$ a round you can find nicer courses.

I booked a trip for 13 guys to play. I was told to book four tee times. I had a couple players back out and on the day of play they forcibly charged my credit card for 14 people (of which there would have only been one player, we were going to play as a 3x3x3x4). Then they ended up pushing a 2 some into our group after making us pay for 4 more tee times than people. Shady to say the least, been golfing there for over 20 years. I won't be back.

All was good. I would recommend more work on the tee boxes. Greens were in decent shape and slow. Had a good round.