West at Tamarack Golf Course

We've played the East course several times and the West is much better! It would be very wet after a hard rain, but as long as its dry, the layout is better and the holes more interesting. Tough water holes and long par 3s!

Cause of season, there are bald spots and weeds

but are remaining short and being treated

Don’t loose it

Tamarack is a beautiful course but unfortunately the condition of the course (tee boxes, greens, fairway, rough) are all horrendous. One of the worst conditions I have seen a course.

The course could be much better if they watered it and repaired the fairways and greens. Lots of holes with major matches of dirt. If in better condition would have been more enjoyable to play.

Friendly staff, course is a good length,could use a little ground repair, there were crews out

Ok, so I had driven to NJ to meet a friend at the Rutgers course and it closed due to recent rains, though I don't think it dumped that much rain lately. Nonetheless, we ended up booking Tamarack west for a mid afternoon round. The warm up area is matted, so that isn't great and the practice green didn't allow chipping, no big deal there.

Somehow 2 guys wiyh 1 bag jumped out 4 minutes prior to our tee Time, so already waiting on hole 1, they were very obviously beginners. I don't think courses should allow 2 players and 1 bag.

The conditions were reflective of a massive rainfall, though as I said, I don't think it rained THAT much, but hey, Rutgers closed, so maybe it did. There was standing water on almost every fairway and all over the rough, it really was unplayable. We agreed on winter rules, so we often moved out ball out of puddles onto very very wet grass. Additionally, the fairways had many many area with no grass whatsoever, it is quite shocking actually, and I've played some beat up courses. Crabgrass and weeds were often 70% of the fairway if not bare or underwater.

Tee boxes were much like the FWs, but some tee markers were placed where hitting a legal tee shot off of actual grass was literally impossible. Often we played outside the tee area to find a dryer spot with grass, not just sand and mud.

The greens were extremely slow, with some small damaged areas.

Bunkers had little sand, hard pan, and some had small ponds in them.

They did allow us to play an extra 9 at no cost on the east course, we played the front. It was just like the west course except slightly faster greens.

Nice course and was thoroughly enjoyable but they had an old boys tournament running so we had no one close to us on the front 9 and then we were sat behind 4 groups of 4 who due to their age was extremely slow which meant there was a big back log of golfers.

However it was beautiful out and the course is very nice so nothing to complain about.

Place seems like it would be enjoyable on dry days. If it rains, stay away because the WEST Course gets shut down and even one has to play the EAST course. If you decide to take the chance like we foolishy did, its a nightmare because its all young people running the place. There are pleasant enough but have no clue on how to handle the over flow to the EAST Course.. Im not going to into detail on our horrible ordeal, you have been warned, if its going to rain...RUN!!!!!!!

As for as the EAST Course goes. Its a lot of fun to play.