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About Oglebay
Oglebay is a 2,000-acre public park to some and a four-season resort to others. Guests can choose to stay in the Wilson Lodge or in cottages and estate homes. The park is a family-oriented place with the Good Zoo, Schenk Lake, gardens, hiking trails, horseback riding, an aerial challenge course and museums. The resort adds amenities such as tennis courts, a spa and multiple golf courses, bars and restaurants. The Crispin Center features an outdoor pool with inflatables, a climbing rock wall and the Fountains of Fun Splash & Spray attraction. Arnold Palmer designed the Klieves Course. The Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed Speidel Course hosted the West Virigina LPGA Classic for 11 years. There's also a nine-hole par 3 and the 5,627-yard Crispin Course. Oglebay's sister park, the 406-acre Wheeling Park, is minutes away with the Bloch Memorial Golf Course, mini-golf, paddle boats on Good Lake, swimming at an outdoor Olympic pool and indoor/outdoor tennis courts.Facts
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Beautiful and fair
The Palmer Course at Oglebay is pleasing to the eye with enough stuff to get in your way so you want to return and play it again. Sure wish I can get back there this year.
Friendly employees, great layout
Very nice track, perfect condition, forgiving off the tee,
Pace, refreshments, etiquette…terrible.
There needs to be some adjustments made on tee times or adequate rangers in place enforcing some sort of proper etiquette/pace. Every hole on the back 9 had a minimum 15min wait, with multiple groups on every tee box. The “cart music” has gotten ridiculous. This isn’t a concert and it’s not a $20 track. The “snack shack” located off 7&13 tee boxes was closed at 4pm and we saw one drink cart all day. It took us over 5hrs to play 14holes and we called it quits and came in. Very unenjoyable (partial) round of golf.
Sloooooooooooow play
Felt like 10 minutes between each shot. It’s a demanding course and some people should not be playing it. Like you should be this tall to ride this ride. Some aren’t tall enough!! Then they have to play from the back tees which I couldn’t understand at all. Every hole one of them would lose a ball and had to look for their ball that went out of bounds like it was the last ball on earth! Sand traps need some work and tees are used a lot and tough to find a good spot on some of the tees. Staff are great and it’s worth golfing there if you can get an early time to get ahead of the slow play.
Unacceptably long wait between holes
Course conditions and the deal I got are the positives from this trip. That said having to wait 20 minutes at each tee box is unacceptable. Either the stagger needs to be longer in between with less tee times or a Marshall is needed. The two groups in front of us had 4 people each and never let my twosome play through. On top of that they played together as 8 on the last four holes. We quit after #16 because we were five hours in at that point. Unacceptable
Disappointed
I’ve played the Palmer course multiple times and this was by far the worst. First the young man who checked us in was rude and charge one of my party full rate instead of the discount. The course was in rough shape. No The bunkers looked like they hadn’t been raked in over a week and the greens were chewed up. Finally there was no refreshment stand nor cart girl working at 3pm so if you didn’t get drinks before you started you now had limited options. I expect more out of a “premium” course.