Lochmere Golf Club
About
Located near the banks of Swift Creek, Lochmere Golf Club has plenty of water incorporated into the layout, coming into play on nearly every hole. The golf course stretches across a lush, gently rolling landscape sprinkled with mature trees and ponds. The terrain showcases the best in Triangle golf. At just over 6,600 yards it is not particularly long, but it provides plenty of challenges. It is a tight course that will test your accuracy with narrow fairways lined with trees. The small greens that are heavily protected by well placed bunkers demand thoughtful strategy and pinpoint control. The golf course offers a fair challenge but it is still accessible for beginners, especially from the forward tees. Lochmere G.C. is a favorite among Cary locals, both for its enjoyable design and its affordable rates.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 71 | 6627 yards | 72.1 | 132 |
| Blue | 71 | 6136 yards | 69.8 | 128 |
| White (W) | 71 | 5632 yards | 73.3 | 131 |
| White | 71 | 5632 yards | 67.8 | 121 |
| Red (W) | 71 | 4677 yards | 70.0 | 110 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 71.6/140 | 405 | 360 | 169 | 386 | 373 | 410 | 170 | 430 | 549 | 3252 | 380 | 157 | 491 | 367 | 353 | 360 | 522 | 187 | 367 | 3184 | 6436 |
| Blue M: 69.5/133 W: 75.5/137 | 380 | 337 | 152 | 361 | 348 | 368 | 161 | 403 | 536 | 3046 | 364 | 148 | 475 | 333 | 322 | 346 | 496 | 160 | 336 | 2980 | 6026 |
| White M: 67.5/123 W: 72.7/130 | 350 | 310 | 124 | 342 | 335 | 334 | 152 | 371 | 505 | 2823 | 344 | 139 | 455 | 317 | 290 | 309 | 451 | 135 | 316 | 2756 | 5579 |
| Gold M: 64.8/116 W: 69.8/124 | 318 | 302 | 99 | 290 | 314 | 295 | 143 | 311 | 449 | 2521 | 275 | 130 | 439 | 300 | 282 | 260 | 379 | 127 | 285 | 2477 | 4998 |
| Red M: 63.7/111 W: 68.0/122 | 310 | 247 | 91 | 284 | 306 | 287 | 136 | 308 | 441 | 2410 | 269 | 124 | 356 | 278 | 255 | 254 | 374 | 107 | 279 | 2296 | 4706 |
| Handicap | 5 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 10 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 71 |
| Handicap (W) | 7 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 4 |
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Overpriced and overbooked.
5+ hours to play a short golf course. 3 groups on one hole at times. Tee sheet was running late. Par 3 with mats to hit tee shots from. Not worth $55.
Probably should bring.your own grass.
Course is in such a bad state with terrible fairways, sand greens, and artificial mats on one of the tee boxes, I wouldn't recommend going here for any more than 20$.
Dont bother
Please dont let the location and affordability of this golf course convince you to play. The pace of plays the worst I've seen ever in my life . The T-sheet was supposedly wide-open on the golf now app for that Monday I show up 30 minutes before my tee time to find out I have been paired but I could go early if I wanted to so I went early first two holes were great then I got behind three singles they were not made to play together and an entire golf outing in front of them.
Fairways/Tee Boxes = Rough Shape
I grew up playing Lochmere, and it’ll always have a soft spot for me, but I played it for the first time in quite a while this weekend and the tee boxes/fairways were in REALLY bad shape. I probably won’t play it again this season unless I hear that it’s dramatically improved.
Staff was great as always, the price was reasonable and I still had a great time…but the course conditions were disappointing.
Don't Play Here After It Rains
The course is completely flat and much water runs through it, so the drainage is terrible...standing water, soggy fairways, and with the grass still dormant, fairways were a mess and had no role. The greens were is good shape however, and the sand bunkers had been freshly raked smooth. Once the course has a chance to dry out, it should play better.
Waste of money
I cannot recommend this course. It is always a soggy mess, which is a shame because it’s in a great location. I’ve played there 3 times, always wet, cartpath-only, and I wouldn’t consider the staff very friendly.
Yesterday, we enjoyed our cart dying on us on number 14, which made it even more frustrating. We had to wait 15 min to get a new cart.
There are much better choices in the area.
Picturesque
Lochmere is a very picturesque golf course. I live all the challenging water features. It's a great location and a great value.
Rough conditions
I really hope they get this course out back together before summer. It’s normally very nice but currently it’s unplayable. We had a little rain but the fairways were like swamps.
Good value
I like Lochmere. Challenging but not overly difficult. Course is in low lying area, so had to do cart path only, despite no rain for several days. Greens in great shape.
Wet course
After heavy overnight rain, the course was very wet, and, of course, cart path only. When I arrived at the course the other players either had already teed off, or had not yet arrived. I was given the option to wait for the other players, or just go out by myself as the course was almost empty. I went out by myself and finished in under 3 hours. It was very nice to be given this option. Thanks
Wet field condition even after several sunny days.
I like to play the Lochmere golf because it's a nice little golf not too far from our house in Apex. The winter condition are pretty tough at this course since there it's drains very poorly. Although the greens where nice, the fairways are in rough shape and muddy in many location. I recommend walking this course. If you take a golf cart, make sure you have a partner to share it with otherwise they will try to force you to share your cart with a stranger that plays on your tee-time... I complained and they let me drive my cart alone last week but that was a big surprise that they would even consider forcing me to share a kart with a stranger with COVID still around.
Wet, and fairways/tee boxes poor condition
Very wet, had a cartpath only rule for the cart. Poor fairways and tee box conditions, nice greens is the best I can say. Won’t play here again unless drastic improvements are made
Forcing singles to share carts with strangers is irresponsible
Hated that I had to give up my cart and share another person's. Covid is still raging and to put together 2 unknown in close proximity for several hours ( 5 hours actually) is irresponsible. Pace of play was really slow due unusually higher number of walkers - who probably decided against the cart option for the same reason. It does not make sense as there were a huge number of carts available. This is a show stopper for me. I never want to share cart again and there never will play at Lochmere again.