West at Tamarack Golf Course

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.

A lot of dead grass, very bad conditions. Also ongoing sprinklers in the middle of the fairway and lawn mowing. And this was during a 1pm tee time

This was my first time playing this course. The course was in terrible condition. Fairways were covered in dirt, tee boxes had tall grass, and greens were burnt. The bunkers were the only well kept part of this course. Course wanted to charge my friend an extra $32 for a single cart. Given the current pandemic, we were shocked. Thankfully our 4th walked. My friend’s cart ran out of gas on the 7th hole and staff needed to bring a new one out. Groundskeepers were cutting grass throughout the entire round and would stop and park where we were hitting our shots. Finally, the sprinkler system turned on while we were playing our last hole. It was 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Overall, terrible course. Avoid if possible.

Very wet in front of all greens staff very friendly a lot of spots on course are air rated

Looks like management is certainly improving the course. Some of the greens need some work, but otherwise playable. The checking in process we as good, and the staff were friendly. I will certainly play there again, because the course is fair and really wide open.

Played on Friday July 17th, ridiculously hot. But the course was in great condition. Course is well maintained, fair but challenging. Greens are in great condition despite the extreme heat and the fairways rolled real nice. Highly recommendable course to play

Played a easy 4 hr round. No stress shot 80 with a putt here or there it might of been a little lower. The 2 girls in the beverage cart were great. Every one of the staff I encountered was very friendly. Will definitely play again.

We were never informed that the greens were being aerated before we booked this round. We would have never booked this course. The green were unplayable. At one point I went to putt the ball ended up hitting sand, stopping suddenly and just spun in its spot. I attached a photo of one of the greens which was one of the better greens but you can see for yourself it was impossible. I am looking for some kind of refund being every other course will inform you of aerated green or even lowering the price of greens are being aerated.