Nine Hole Par 3 at Smithtown Landing Golf Club

Edges of the green worst I’ve ever seen. Either no grass, or thick crabgrass. Even the greens had crabgrass.

5 hour round on a weekday, waited on every tee box.

No water jugs on a 90 degree day.

We used to love this course because it has such an interesting layout, but it has really gone downhill.

Will not be returning or recommending it.

Went off later than the appointed time and it was really slow. Apparently no one enforces slow play as there were very long gaps of people coming up 18.

Tons of crabgrass everywhere. Fringe wasn't puttable with crabgrass. Played 9 holes 3hrs asked if I could play front again because nobody was there they said no very rude. I was a single player with foursome in front and back

If you don’t mind playing 5 hour rounds then this is the course for you . The course was in very good shape for both the fairways and the greens . The staff is very friendly and accommodating . But to have to wait on every shot is very frustrating. It’s either they are not spacing out the tee times far enough or is it the layout of the course that causes all the back ups . I saw today 3 groups waiting to tee off on the par 5 - fourth hole . Thats ridiculous.

8 minute tee times created extremely slow play.hopefully they figure this out eventually!!!

Tee times weren’t spread out at all. Too many groups sent out too close to each other. 8 minute intervals lead to pulling up on group in front, every hole, still yet to tee off. Meaning 10-15 min waits each hole.

Course was in great shape tees to greens. Pace of play not too bad for a Friday afternoon. Tough walking course as there are a lot of elevation changes. Only complaint- many of the garbage cans on the course were overflowing and needed to be changed. Other than that- excellent!

Lets start with the positive(s),

Lots of elevation change, its a pretty challenging course. I don't use a range finder, and judging distances was certainly more challenging than the other courses in the bracket of $70-$100 (this was $75).

As it is a challenging course, the players they attract can be newer golfers and take more time, and booking groups as tight as they do leads to constant delays at every hole.

We booked a tee time around noon.

After progressing a couple holes, we waited for an average of about 10 minutes at each tee box, and then had the ranger come around to rush OUR group into going faster without even knowing what the hold up really is.

If the delays weren't enough to frustrate the group, the ranger certainly pushed it even further towards never booking that course again.

But we get it, people ahead might be new, the ranger might have pressure to speed people up with no idea who the problem is.. but

The cherry on top of it all... the disrespect of the maintenance worker was unbelievable. With a hose sprawled across the green while people were approaching the green and then continuing disrupting players while they putted ahead of us was something I myself have never seen anything like. Not to mention when that group was done, the worker stayed on the green for 10 minutes while we were waiting at the Par 3 Tee box. Seeing as they didnt have intentions to move and with a ranger likely making their way back around to pressure us again, we just tee'd off and missed the worker by about 10 feet.

The polite cart girl crew was the most respect the course showed us as a whole. Being quiet around tee boxes and greens, and being very patient.

As we finished 18, you'll have to lug all your stuff back about a quarter mile to the parking lot. We did it while thinking about that experience and that was the nail in that coffin.

I've never even wrote a review before, look at all this. Enough said. Dont waste a weekend of golf here. Or waste one weekend to re-appreciate your other preferred courses.

The course itself is a great challenge. Many elevation changes, and slopes designed to bring your ball into tough places. Greens were what you'd expect from one of the cheapest courses on LI.

Aside from the course, we had to constantly wait 10 minutes at the tee boxes since they overbook for the time it takes golfers to progress the course.

If waiting frustrates you, don't even bother continue reading.. we had the ranger driving around chirping us to pick up the pace when we can visibly see the group ahead still waiting at their tee box. So unecessary pressure to move took away from the game.

Then to put a cherry on top of never considering this course again, the maintenance staff had zero regard for golfers. In one unbelievable instance we watched the group ahead of us try and putt around a worker with a hose across the green. The video is uploaded to this review. You couldn't make it up. After the group in the video finished, the worker remained on the green in our way for at least another 5 minutes until we simply weren't going to deal with the ranger complaining to pick up the pace again. So we tee'd off and let the worker deal with their consequences. Luckily for them, we didn't hit them by about 10 feet.

I’ve been meaning to play this one and was glad I got to. Enjoyed the walk, the layout and the suprisingly fast greens. Good elevation changes as well. Pace of play was on and off but expected for a weekend holiday. Would play again