Hillsborough Country Club

Course is tight, greeens on the back 9 were insane if you did not get ball to the cup as it would rollback downward.

Fairways and greens were in good shape. Very enjoyable round.

Course is laid out very nicely but is in need of a lot of work. T boxes were poor, greens are brutal, nothing sticks and like concrete. Fairways were ok. Challenging course that with right work could be top notch!

Although I enjoyed the layout of this course, the greens were so severely sloped it made it impossible to putt. On numerous occasions, my first putt would miss the hole & should have stopped a few feet past the hole, but the slope would take the ball about 15 ft further! Also, My approach iron shots would not hold on these hard sloped greens. Overall, these issues I just listed ruined my golf experience. I would recommend playing this course unless you do not care about your score. The view is terrific throughout the round.

Friendly staff is the only plus. Hadn’t played the course in years and remembered it was a quirky layout, very short, and with severely sloping greens and fairways. Course conditioning is non-existent, except for the greens haacing been aerated about a week ago, so they were bumpy and slow- probably for the best, as several holes would have been unplayable with faster green speeds because of the slopes. More weeds than grass in the fairways and tees, which were rock hard where they weren’t dead. At $60 for a weekend round, I would at least expect a course with moderate conditioning.

Overall the course was just not in great shape for September. The grass was extremely patchy and several parts of many of the greens were burnt out. The bunkers are also poorly maintained and the tee boxes are atrocious. To add to the lackluster course conditions the entirety of the course was over run with gnats. Obviously that is hard to control but it did add to my less than desirable experience.

This course was in awful shape. The greens seem to have not been rolled or mowed in weeks. The fairway and the rough are the exact same length. The sand traps have no sand.

I’ve never written a review for anything but Today I played Hillsborough country club and it was time to pop my cherry. If you enjoy Tee boxes with no grass, Fairways with deeper grass than the rough at Augusta, and best of all Greens with more Sand than the bunkers themselves then Hillsborough Country club is the golf course for you. The landscaper today said to me “ it’s almost impossible to find the golf ball with all these leaves” when he was sitting on the side of the 17th hole in his golf cart with a leaf blower next to him. If you have the desire to play this course even after this review I truly believe you should purposely try and hit the ball in the rough so you have a better lie than the fairway.

PS The golf carts are from 1496

The greens are trash, fairway grass not maintained , and course is only on a hill. Hardly any lies where the ball is not above/below your feet. NO MATTER THE PRICE, you're better off going to any other course

Horrible. Would never play again. SAVE YOUR MONEY. Much better courses in the area for $50. Tee boxes and “fairways” (I use that term loosely) unkept and obviously not maintained. Horrible condition. Greens had apparently been aerated, but even considering that, they were horrible, sand ALL OVER, simply impossible to putt. Honestly, GolfNow should issue refunds for even allowing this course to be booked. FWIW, we played Heron Glen later in the afternoon, and for $30 more, you can an absolutely AMAZING course that should be the benchmark for every golf course.

Fairways were sparse in places. It was aerated which we knew, but the plugs were on the greens and the fringe. Also the sand was washed out of the holes and accumulate in certain areas not the green.

Having played this course before, I was well aware of the tight layout. If you're not straight off the tee, you can easily be in the woods or on another hole. Not a surprise. What was a surprise was the pace (great, I think we just got lucky with an 8am tee time), the number of trees they've removed since the last time which opened up a couple holes, especially the short par 4 with swamp in front of the green, and lastly the greens. the greens were mostly not in good shape, alot of scarring and one where weeds had just taken over the edge. the holes were also cut in the hardest locations possible on most if not all putting greens. each hole was just a foot or less from a slope or the greens themselves were sloped such that if you missed the hole, say bye bye to your ball, you're off the green. i like a challenge but this was definitely insane. if you made it through the round with fewer than 6 three-putts, you're better than me I guess.

Pace of play was great but I shortly realized that was due to no one wanting to play here. Fairways and greens were in poor conditions. Greens were scorched and ran extremely hot.

The course layout and views on the back 9 are about the only positives....But that’s about it. It’s in AWFUL shape. The tee boxes were terrible, the fairways were patchy and the greens were beat the heck up. I felt like I needed a helmet on the front 9 with the sprayers out in full force on a Saturday morning. The gnats were buzzing around your face all morning, too. This was one of those places where I just couldn’t wait for the round to be over. It’s in dire need of alittle TLC.?I’ll never play here again