Split Rock at Pelham/Split Rock Golf Course

Understandable that the course in January would play rough but not having someone tending to the motorized golf carts that we paid for and leaving it to us to figure out which ones work and which don’t isn’t right when charging full price. Every golf cart was a mess and they were all covered in water (including the roofs which as soon as you moved dumped all their water into your golf bag). If you are going to be open, staff accordingly or don’t open.

Played on a Friday afternoon and took 5.5 hours. Pulled up to the second tee box to find 5 groups on the hole and knew it was going to be a long round. 8 min tee times simply not enough for the number of recreational golfers the course sees.

Course itself is a fun and challenging layout and in good shape, especially for a New York muni. Price is relatively inexpensive and a good value. No driving range but would play again, especially during a less popular time

This course has a reputation for slow rounds and with the pin placements on Saturday, I can now safely say it’s not only a golfer problem. There were no fewer than 4 holes where the pins we placed on edges of slopes/close to fringes, such that I can only imagine the person in charge was either doing it for the first time or was purposefully trying to sabotage pace of play at the course. It was almost like playing winter rules where once you get your ball on the green, you take 2 putts on the scorecard and move to the next hole. Unfortunately, I will probably look elsewhere next time if I can.

Never has a course punched their tees and greens more than this course. Never a mention of it either..

I had a fun time playing this course. Wildlife to enjoy to include mosquitoes so bring your Off. A mixture of narrow and wide fairways. I did travel from White Plains so I paid more in Uber then green fees.

Got a tee time for 345 and we got to the first hole and wait 30 minutes to tee off and was an hour and a half before we got done with the 2nd hole and there was 3 groups waiting on the 3rd hole so we ended up leaving.

Don’t ever pay full price to play here. Rangers rides around and says nothing even though a twosome was holding up 4 foursomes. By the 13th hole there were 4 groups on the hole. You would think playing at 7am would take no longer than 4 hours.

Awful round. No Ranger to keep pace of play. It’s a free for all. Over book tee times. $85 to have to wait 10-15 minutes per shot

Played the Split Rock portion of the course. 6 tee boxes were moved up drastically as they are build new ones. Pace was super slow and the twosome behind us hit into us 3 times. Could be great once they finish construction.

Half the course was under construction.. tee boxes were moved up to the rough right before the start of the fairway and on top of that there was active construction going on the back while your trying to tee off and it was just ridiculous. I would not recommend this to anyone any time soon.

Nowadays I think there are two types of people who play here - ones who have too much money and the others who have no other options. I played here because I belong to the second group, with all nearby courses booked solid in the morning. And boy do I feel cheated. I’ve been here 4-5 times before and the green fees keeps going up, and the quality is going in the other direction. I paid $85, including a cart, for a sub-standard course with most tee boxes dug up for repairs. It had rained the day before so there were puddles all over the fairways, and some bunkers looking like mini ponds. In spite of a 636 tee time, we teed off 15 min late so can’t imagine what the later tee times looked like. And did I mention they also charge $3 for parking? A regular beer is $8, and the list goes on. I know golf isn’t a cheap game but this course has perfected the art of price gouging because they know the market and understand that people will pay whatever to be able to play at a time they want.

The only one good thing I’ve to say is that the dreaded mosquitoes are gone. Now not sure whether they did something about it or was just the cool spring weather. And the starter (sorry didn’t catch his name) was nice and seems to love doing his job.

All in all, two thumbs down. Unless absolutely forced because I have no other options, I’ll stay away from this course.