Carlton Oaks Lodge, Ascend Hotel Collection

Had a noon tee time. Easy to find. This place is a cow track. Its lumpy, no fairway grass, and crappy conditions. We paid for 18 holes and quit after 8 holes. It was that bad.

Sorry to the course for a negative review. But this is a not a course if you are coming to SD to play golf that should be on your list.

Pace of play could have been better but that was just because of the group in front playing from the Black tees when they should have been playing from the ladies tee box their slow play allowed me to catch up to a very friendly couple. I enjoyed their company to and played the last 11 holes with them.

Tee Boxes could use some care. Greens were in great shape but the speed of the greens had no consistency. I will play here again.

Sorry. I played this course 10 years ago and stopped due to poor conditions and now… it is worse. I paid $52 as my online/prepaid rate and I want my $$$ back. Slow play was in part due to a he fact that you could not find your golfball thru the gopher holes , brown fairways and many dirt runoffs. I could mot openly invite friends to play beyond the kind courteous staff.

I’ve played here quite a few times. It’s been ravaged by floods in the past and they are slowly recovering. It’s a great layout and can be very difficult from the wrong tees. Fairways are firm and fast and the greens are in good shape. I hope they keep improving and bring it back to its past glory.

Yes, the course is in bad shape. It straight up looks like a desert with some green patches mixed in. Now there is a new twist to the sad state of this course. Some of the idiots that play this course are out of control. The insanely drunk group in front of us drove their cart into the river and I do mean all the way in. It was still there when we passed by. I'm all for a few beers on the course, but this was ridiculous. I honestly don't know how much lower this course can sink.

For a full course and the decent conditions, you can't ask for a better price! This course seems to be a secret gem (a secret for now) as you can usually get a decent tee time and the conditions are never bad. If you get off the fairway too far you may disagree with the conditions, but that's what you get for missing the fairway, lol. They are remodeling the off-course amenities so I'm excited to see it progress, but it will likely cause it to become busier, good for them!

I know they are going to reconfigure course and build homes soon. Can’t wait til that happens as course is pretty poor shape right now.

Greens are okay.

Took way to long to play.

Compliments to the greenskeeper staff and owners on the much improved conditions since the last time I played here maybe a few months ago. The tee boxes, fairways and approach areas around the green complexes have new grass and there seem to be less gopher holes than I remember from last time. Bunkers are still pretty much hard-pan dirt though. Greens were slow but decent condition with minimal ball marks. Lots of coot bird poop on #12 green but I think they cleaned up the debris from the two lakes as it didn't smell as bad as before and it was very scenic, with lots of other birds/cranes grazing around. Always very windy in the late afternoon, I should've clubbed up more often (and hit putts harder)! Was a fun day out at Carlton. Cart girl came around a few times. It was a packed day so pace was pretty slow. Hot dog at the turn from bar was hot and quick. The bar is great for sports and their regular menu is decent if you decide to stick around afterward.

The course had fallen into disrepair lately but has made significant progress over the past 6 months. New grass around the greens and tee boxes. It still has a ways to go but the improvements are welcome and make the place look better.

A total mess the fairways was a combination of weeds, dirt and craters

they explained they’re doing a multi million dollar renovation but honestly, we should’ve paid half what we did

i’m sure it was once Beautiful, but it has not been maintained in a very long time. extremely rundown and half of the vegetation was dead.

This is a very challenging course to play Lately the tea boxes have new grass look very nice and the greens are in very good shape and the fairways are starting to get nice thick patches of grass in there this is a very good course to play don't pass it up get out there and play it great course