Recreation Park American Golf Club

Arriving at Rec Park 20-25 minutes early, it immediately looked like a crazy Friday. That was OK though, as my mental state was "even if the round is 5.5 hours, I'll still finish before dark. There were many players already waiting with carts on bags, a full driving range, and scores of walkers. I walked in to a pro shop with NO LINE. I was helped by a SUPER PLEASANT and EFFICIENT starter/cashier. Who took all of 15 seconds to find my Golfnow reservation, let me know I was prepaid, handed my a cart key and receipt. Then, TO MY BIGGEST SURPRISE, we started 3 minutes before our 12:10 TEE TIME! Then, to an even more pleasant surprise, pace of play was so fantastic that we finished in 4 hours 10 minutes!!!! Great day at Rec Park! Greens were medium fast, fairways and rough were green all around with good lies. Sand was decent in most all bunkers (only visited 1). Cleared all my stereotypes from past experiences there.

Considering how many rounds are played during the weekend, the fairways and greens are in nice condition.

Every so often you see a guy playing the blue tees because all of his friends are but he should be playing the front tees. 3:20 tee time had a guy like this and they were two entire holes behind, hitting mulligans, etc. That’s what the range is for. So we called the pro shop and asked for a Marshall, but there’s no Marshall after 5pm so we were stuck behind these beginners with no understanding of pace of play. Pace of play should be an important aspect of taking a beginner out to play. And asking the group behind to play through should be considered. Absolutely annoying day.

Everybody at the course from the guy at the pro shop who checked us in and the person at the 1st hole whose assigning golf carts were all nice and corteous.

I love this course. It is in absolutely great shape and while it is relatively forgiving, it can also be very challenging. My only complaint is the lack of support from the Ambassadors. We were behind a group all day that ended up being almost two holes behind after 5 holes. They couldn't hit the ball more that 75 yards and took their tilme for every shot. Their on green pace was incredibly slow. The "ranger" did nothing. Drove our group crazy.

Stop your money gouging and putting tee times too close together. The course was clogged the entire day. A round of golf shouldn’t take almost 6 hours. If you can’t make times work don’t make them available to the public. I love this course and grew up on this course. Stop ruining it for others by the slow pace of play. It is ridiculous.

Greens are pretty good, fairways are good, and the tee boxes are a bit used but seems like the regular out here. Course layout is nice, nothing too hard. Usually good pace but sometimes you can get held up pretty bad, mainly during twilight times. Overall a pretty nice course but a bit expensive.

I can only think of one criticism and that is that it seems to be “undersloped”. From the white tees there are numerous holes that are unreachable for someone who hits a lot of drives in the 180-190 yard area. The hills and the wind also lend to the course’s difficulty. In my opinion, a white slope rating of 4-5 points higher seems justified. I enjoyed the course.

Beautiful day, great course, decent pace, friendly staff

I’ve always enjoyed playing this course. It is long, open, and the greens are in excellent condition. The only negative is it was a 5 hour round. I believe we had one of the last tee times before twilight. We were almost 2 holes in front of the first twilight group. The round was so slow the first twilight group caught us at the turn.

I bought " Hot deal " $ 61.00
But you took $80.00 on my credit card.
What happen?