LaTourette Golf Course

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

Played SI's favorite track on Saturday in 20 MPH winds. Fairways, and greens showed the effects of the harsh winter. Nothing better than playing though. New this year is a reverse of the 9's back to Latourette's early days, with 10 now being the opening hole.

So yes ... the reviews are right. It is a muni ... and it is not the most amazing course. But come on people, what do you expect? It is like walking into a Dive Bar and expecting 3 Michelin Star service. But for $35 ?? I will totally go back ... Worth noting, the lack of bunkers is made up for the excessive amount of sand on all of the greens. I suppose they were just plugged and it is what it is ... I was lucky, I was the first one out for the day and flew through 18 in just over 2 hours. Nice club house and solid staff.

great course but at this time they are air rating the greens. a lot of sand tough putting conditions.

Played twice this month and the course is in good condition. Now for the bad. Had a 6:45am tee time on 9/10 and played a 5 hour round. No round starting at that time should take 5 hours unless you play at this course where they surprise you with an 8 am outing starting on the back nine. So much for booking a spontaneous early tee time the night before in hopes of playing a fast round!! This course has become the King of Outings. Call before reserving a tee time as they refuse to post the outings on the website. Played on 9/24 and the round took more that 5 1/4 hours, this on top of teeing off 30 minutes past my tee time. They said it was because they had a group from Silver Lake come in and they slowed down the course. At one point the round was going so slow that the group waiting in back of us on the 12th tee went and yelled at the group on the 13th tee box to speed things up because they saw a small opening on this hole to make up a tiny bit of time and that group wasn't taking advantage of it. Can't make this stuff up!! Playing here makes me rethink the saying, "a bad day of golf is better than a good day at work!!!".

Course has great lay out. There tee boxes were hideous. Occasional bold spots on a couple greens. But the ground was so hard it was impossible to find any touch around the greens. I think they had skimped on the water on and around the putting surfaces. But again beautiful location but I think there are better courses in the metro area for the price.

The golf course was in pretty good condition. The man in the grill room was exceptionally great , knows how to treat his customers. The kids behind the counter at the pro shop are either on the computer or watching tv and then they tell you carts have to be in at a certain time because they want to go home.(even though there is and hour worth of light left).

Very nice course. Unfortunately, due to the amount of hackers they let on, and the fact that not a single ranger was spotted keeping the pace of play, there were routinely 15 min-20 min delays at the par 3's and an overall pace of close to 3 hours for 9.

When does a tee-time mean a tee-time? Well not at la Tourette. This has nothing to do with the great service GolfNow provides but the basic poor service of La Tourette.
I like had a 6.15am tee-time and was on the course well in advanced of this like others who had booked a tee-time that day. One twosome (who we ended up playing with) had their tee time pushed back twice so there time became 6.30 instead of the 6am they had booked. We in fact ended up teeing off at 6.45. 45 mins later for one set of guys and 30mins for me. One of those guys asked the starter why this was as the starter kept pushing foursomes after foursomes (7 groups in total) out before us. Now as the course’s first tee-time was 5.45 that day you can see why those who had booked a tee-time for the early morning were a little miffed that this was happening. The starter did not want to answer why this was but we later found out that on Wednesday La Tourette push a local club out first but make all those that have a legitimate tee-time wait until they have gone.
I am partly fine with this…. IF, La Tourette would make a block booking for this so mugs like me and others do not have to wait around while the best of the best get to jump a line, jobs for the boy’s.
This has happened at a few of the other NY publics and was stopped, but not at La Tourette as it seems.
Anyway just a heads up for all those early morning golfers wanting to play at this course and as I was always taught, “if you don’t like it, go somewhere else and hurt them in the tills” and I’ll be doing that.
Course wise it’s in good shape, one or two greens need a bit of work but happy with the golf at La Tourette, just not how we were treated

Easy to hit fairways or find your ball if you don't. Greens where challenging and only 3 par 3's. some nice elevation changes and good lunch specials. What more can u ask for?

Typical Staten Island course. THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH CARTS!!. Had to wait an 1/2 hour past our tee time to get a cart. They have Two for Tuesdays so don't go on a Tuesday!! The round took 5 1/2 hours to complete. Like I said, typical Staten island course. Too crowded and too long of a round!! Just go to Jersey!!

Super friendly staff and well maintained greens made it a perfect golfing day.

Played this course in early morning of hot NYC summer day. Course is beautiful, serene, and scenic. Lots of elevation changes. I thought course played longer that posted from the "whites" judging from where I remembered tee makers placed in the past. Fairways are wide, so left and right tee shots can make it to the greens in regulation if you avoid the bunkers. Greens are challenging! They are big, fast and undulating. So, you need a superb short game to score well. I thought the fellows driving around the course with extra water was a nice touch on this hot day to keep the customers hydrated. Nice outer borough NYC golf course.

Every time I play here its great. Staff is very nice, clubhouse is cool, awesome sandwiches. Course is pretty well maintained. Really only thing I've seen is due to golfers not maintaining the green during play.

Course in well maintained. Greens are very good. Entertaining and not very difficult. Takes 4.5 to 5 hours to play.

This course was maintained well and was a fairly easy course with wide fairways and not many hazards in play. The fairways and greens were rock hard which is good for distance off the tee box because the ball gets a lot of roll but requires a lot of skill in spinning the ball in order to get it to sit on the green.

I booked a tee time for 8am on Friday. We were caught in Staten Island traffic and arrived 15 minutes late. We walked into the pro shop and without any eye contact were told by the custodian, "you're killim me." He went on to say I cancelled your reservation, you've been charged $20, and there's nothing he can do. I get it, I was late, but you just get the feeling they don't have any passion for their jobs or clientele at this place.

The course not far from the city. Course shape beautiful, staff friendly, including cafe restaurant staff. Yardage long, holes a bit challenging. Worth of play.

Played the course on 5/28/13. It was nicely maintained. The greens were surprisingly well maintained, and faster than i remember them in the past. It was a rainy day, so i'd like to see how much faster they would roll on a dry day. I would play here again.