Lochmere Golf Club

Great course that doesn’t break the bank. Pace of play was a little slow but it was extremely busy that day. Greens were in great shape and the fairways rolled out great.

It is a nicely maintained golf course but the fairways are very narrow and the roughs on the side are dense and high. So even if you hit a straight shot, but veer a little off, you end up in the rough and it is impossible to find the ball. Everytime play there I lose at least 10 balls.

This course is in excellent shape. No recent rain so course was dry, clear, and very well maintained. It was super busy as always. Staff were friendly and working hard.

PLEASE: no walkers on fri/sat/sun unless you are not busy at all. They always slow pace of play and when its packed those of us behind them lose. 3;08 tee time and I did not get to finish 18. Had to miss last 4 holes bc of darkness due to playing behind walkers.

Booked an 11:00 tee time and was going to walk 9 holes. Back in July I had a 10:00 tee time on a Sunday where I walked 9 holes and paid $54. Pro shop told me yesterday there are no 9-hole rates on the weekend - it's ride 18 only. Something changed from July to now and no rainchecks are given for the 9 I didn't play to come during the week (which I won't do again). Staff was not friendly about it when I explained and was told "I don't care what you do - walk/ride 9 or 18 - it's $86." The lot was overflowing with carts, I grabbed one headed to the first tee and starter said, "we have a lot of carts out there, need you to pair up with this other single". There were no less than 20 carts cleaned and ready to go and saw plenty of groups with 3 carts along the way. Then we get put behind the last group in the club championship and were told 4x on the back nine to "give them room - they have a lot at stake". We were waiting patiently while they took their time and someone felt the need to remind us 4x in 9 holes to "give them room." Course is a great layout - love the strategic nature of the game on this course. Course is not worth $86 when the pace of play is what it is normally (horrible) even without a club championship and you're hitting off of temporary tees and mats on certain holes. Most of the staff does not appear to be on the same page and it's showing.

Was playing the 9th par 5. Starter sitting on first tee box came out to fairway and asked us to speed up. Young guys behind us bombing there drives I noticed the previous 8 holes. My guess is they called the clubhouse and complained we were slow. And we weren’t. So starter informed us on the 10th hole to just drop ball at the 150 marker instead of teeing off to speed up play. Well we got to the 10th and teed off. I paid to play all 18 holes as I paid for this. When we got on green the group that most likely called clubhouse was just getting in tee box. So who’s the idiots here? Just because a golfer calls in and complains about a group and there’s been no sighting of any Marshalls the whole time I was out there is bogus! Send a Marshall out there to observe situation! And no group should be hitting into you!! The clubhouse contacted starter on first tee box and took the callers word 100% no doubt in my mind! WRONG approach !!

I was in town on a business trip and wanted to get a round of golf in after work some place that does rentals, this brought me to lochmere. I grabbed the earliest tee time I could get 6:12 pm, got there, rented the clubs and was told "you have to return your rental clubs by 7:30 and it's packed out there". I asked why the heck I had to return them before I am done playing, they said "it's the policy". Would not budge at all on it. It was my only chance to play this week so I went out anyway. Played 6 holes and left. Joke of a place. Mediocre golf course, over priced, crap service.

Overall the course was in good shape and played well. But, other than 150 stakes there are almost no yardage markings, or a computer on the cart. To play this course, you MUST have an app and they should tell you that before you tee off.

Draining systems are not working, so wet everywhere after raining, back 9, par 3 is still on work for tee box, years, no rangers Controlling the pace,