LaTourette Golf Course

The course is in good shape ! But the pace of play at 6 am was a little slow. A fivesome of women played the entire round without a ranger ever breaking them up.

I am a Fla resident up in NY for a wedding. Thought I would get in a round of golf with my buddy at a course where I volunteered working at and my friend still works there.
He inquired about how we could play together since he is entitled to a discounted tee time for his volunteering. He was told I could book a tee time , which I did on golf now @ 6:52 am, and he would come up with me and be paired up with me. Not only did they give his tee time to a walk up earlier, they did nothing to satisfy the mistake. People who volunteer
Do not have any rights anymore they are treated lower than dirt. The person in charge, who is a young man!!! Has no managing skills at all. He is a puppet there just to make money. I wouldn't play there if it were the last course on earth. We where also told they were running out of golf carts at 6:30 am, and told we couldn't get a tee time at 6:40 to come back in 10 min. When we returned and tried to sign up for our 6:52 tee time it was 7:05. When I told the gentleman behind the counter it was past our registered tee time @ 6:52 we we're told they were running late. RUNNING LATE AT 6:45 am on Friday morning. Come on they have no consideration for people anymore because the course is crowded and they will fill the slot with the next golfer. The place is a joke . Thank god I'm in Florida........

Fairways were in good shape; the greens were fair and uniform in speed. There isn't a lot of water on the course so you probably won't lose too many, but there are plenty of woodsy areas to gobble up balls. The course is fairly hilly, there are several blind, but because of the dry conditions of the week, the ball seemed to roll a lot and some of the longer holes played fairly short. Overall, however, the layout is a rare treat and quite a surprise considering it is a NYC public course.

The course play was super slow, took 5h for the round.
Course is not interesting, all the holes look the same, no challenge at all. There is NO signs, sticks on the course. NO signs at any holes with distance or ball washers.
For the same price you can get much better courses, more beautiful, with even GPS on the cart.

I bioked this course on the golfnow app by mistake as i was trying to book south shore golf course. As soon as I bioked it I realized the mustake and called golfnow. Golfnow called the course and spoke to the assistant manager Chris. Chris tefused to allow a refund due to the mistake. I called the course myself to try to explain the mistake and Chris would not even take my call. His staff member told me he wasn't going to talk to me and they were chRging me the full price and would not budge. I will never play here nor will my family, friends, and my DOD family.

We finished in 3 1/2 hours. Front nine was slower than the back 9. Pace of play was good and fairways were nice. I wasn't very
happy with the greens. The woman's tee boxes were hard. I broke at least 1 tee every time I went to put the tee in the ground. But overall a beautiful day on the course and I love that it's wide open.

This courses layout for the advance player is very challenging . Can be some blind spots if you don't know where you are hitting it. Ask starter..
All in all I played all of Staten islands courses they are all fun but this was easier to play in the afternoon. American golf ran which means a lot of play ... So be prepared to wait sometimes.

The course was one of the best conditions I have ever played. Unfortunately they had a tournament the morning I had reservations. My tee time was pushed back 2 hours do to the slow play and return on carts. Would like to play here again. Just going to make sure I'm not following a tournament.

The course has a great layout and is very challenging from back tees..greens were in excellent condition and were very fast..only bad thing I can say about this course was the pace of play..we teed off about 1:15 and didn't finish til almost 6:30..this was my first round at this course and would def give it a go again

Big problem is pace of play (Saturday). Nearly a 6 hour round and delayed start. But good course for manhattan proximity.

On #4 if your putt is facing back towards the tee box it will break right from anywhere.. All Greens were dynamite!

What a great day of golfing, the weather was perfect, the golf course was in great shape and the company was the best.

This course charges ~$75/round when it should be closer to $40 based on the quality. The condition was awful - uneven fairways and some of the most poorly kept rough I've ever seen. Around the greens, they have rugged dirt cart paths next to the actual cart paths (and those dirt paths are next to the green), which makes no sense at all. Moreover, there was no ranger in sight and we wound up with a five hour round thanks to several slow groups. As for the actual layout, it was OK - nothing special and no memorable holes. All in all, it's a basic course that doesn't do the fundamentals well at all.

The course was in better shape than the last time I played it but the round was way longer but it was a nice day

Just terrible. I used to play La Tourette when I called Staten Island home. Back in the late 90s it cost about $35 with a cart. At that price, it was fine. Fairly interesting layout (the front nine at least) and in good enough shape for the price.

I went back and played this past weekend for mostly nostalgia. When I heard about the price tag I figured they put in some improvements. Boy was I wrong. Back in the day, if you played in Spring, the course was in decent shape since the local hackers who drive their carts where they want and dont fix ball marks didnt have a chance to completely ruin the course yet. Not anymore.

Its like they gave up. The course is in terrible condition. For almost $80 per player (including one from Staten Island) you would think they had some money for upkeep. This has to be the most poorly managed course I have ever played.

The greens are horrendous. Like they have never been treated. Multi-colored and obviously diseased. One green was so damaged it shouldn't have been open. And it was obviously damaged by an employee as you can see the cut outs for when they change the pins in about 100 spots in circular lines.

They switched front and back here this year and the back nine is actually the more interesting nine now.

The tee boxes are mostly terrible. The sand traps are full of water. With the record rainfall we had last week this course's drainage just couldnt handle it and everywhere is soaked, not just low-lying areas. Elevated fairways were soaked. You would think there would be a cart path only rule to protect the course, or at least a 90 degree rule. Nope. We didnt see one ranger all day.

Fairways were even overgrown to the point where middle of the fairway felt like short rough. There were player-made cart paths around almost every green (where players are NOT supposed to drive). There were no signs for "NO CARTS" that are normally 70 yards away from greens so every player basically drives right up to the green completely ruining the course.

The sad part about LaTourette is that with proper management and some money for improvements, this could be a very good course. Improve the drainage, maintain the course better, add in some more traps. SOMETHING. Pretend to care about it.

Course was in bad condition. What else is new for nyc golf. Tee boxes were a mess. Greens were all inconsistent. Standing water everywhere on course including the sand traps. No cart girl/ranger on the course all day. Course was crowded with Sunday hackers. Pace was slow and tedious. The range they have is horrible they have stalls with these hard uneven carpet mats. You think for all the money they take in they would invest in some upgraded true strike mats. OK my rant is over do yourself a favor and drive a few miles in any direction and play somewhere outside of nyc

It's a good course..kinda short but fun..the staff is extremely friendly and the course was in very good shape considering the winter we just had..pace of play could have been much better if it wasn't for the guys in front of me getting sloshed and not having good etiquette ..I would play again

They flipped the course around. The back9 is now the front9. You would think that golf now would have something on the website telling you that. No signs at the course letting you know where the 1st tee is. No signs on the counter. No mention of the change from the counter person. Smh

Course is in terrible shape... Bad greens. Wouldn't play again.

Parking lot is awful, better be driving a SUV or 4WD, because ist almost feels like you are driving off-road.
Obviously they are not quite ready for business yet, no one to clean the used cart or even remove the cups and garbage from previous group.
But the course does have good layout