Royce Brook Golf Club - West Golf Course

Nice layout but traps in bad shape. Greens were good but lots of ball marks.

RB East (there is a private 18 holes)is a good daily fee course. I like the back 9 over the front 9.

My only issue with the course is the state of the bunkers. They need work. The course Mgmt also needs to police players when they disregard raking the bunkers after use. Too many lazy golfers do not show etiquette and rake the traps for the next group. There are plenty of rakes!

ALL I CAN SAY IS PLEASE SPEND SOME MONEY AND FILL UP THE DIRT TRAPS WITH SOME REAL SAND AND PUT IN SOME BALL CLEANERS AND WATER CONTAINERS. IT'S LIKE A DESERT OUT THERE IN THE SUMMER AND THERE IS NO WATER AT ANY OF THE HOLES. I DID SEE ONE OF THOSE BARREL HOLDERS FOR WATER BUT IT WAS EMPTY. YOU'D BETTER BRING SOME IF YOU PLAN ON PLAYING HERE. THIS PLACE NEEDS SOME TLC. YOU GOTTA SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.

The sand traps were all full of water so the irrigation was horrible. It really doesn't even look like sand. It looks like dirt. Is it that expensive to drop one truckload of nice white sand in each sand trap to spice them up a bit? Sand is cheap. We have it down the entire coast and it looks like much better sand. Enough of the sand or whatever it is. The course on the East was fine. The greens and everything else were nice. Of course I would play there again but I'll just have to focus more on staying out of the dirt traps

Past few years since property will now become a housing development for the public course, the amount of attention has gone way down. Traps are poor at best, unmaintained, greens scratchy and fairway areas burned out despite all the rain we've had, and clearly not worth the amount of money anymore. What a shame, was a premier course for many years.

RB - East WAS one of the best public courses in New Jersey. It is in terrible shape with weeds everywhere, bunkers are just puddles & rocks and bug infested. Stay Away!

I don't know how they get away charging $ 95 for a round. Clubhouse and staff though is very friendly.

West (Private) is still in good shape.

Bunkers appear to be untouched all year. Filled with casual water, weeds off all sorts, grass, rocks ECT. Only thing missing was sand. Tee boxes a little bear up as well. Fairways had considerable fungus. On three plus side greens rolled well. Heard they were selling 18 holes too a developer.

I have always enjoyed Royce Brook, a nice track in a quiet location. The public course is nice, but there has been no sand in the MANY sand traps all season, plus there has been water in many of them for months- not good. We realize half or more of this course is closing down because of the housing development they unfortunately agreed to, but really, how much does sand cost?!? They took a great course and made it difficult to enjoy with these rock hard or flooded traps

Royce Brook has two courses the East which is public and the West which is private. Played the East course today. Staff was very friendly and we played as a twosome which was appreciated. This was our first time playing this course. The overall layout of the course and holes was quite good. The fairways, rough and greens were very nice. Pace of play was ok. We played behind a foursome that was a bit slow but playing as a twosome we expected to wait on some holes and shots.
However we have never seen or played on a course that had sand traps as poorly maintained as the ones on this course. The traps were filled with dirt with weeds and water and have seemed to never been raked which was a shame because the placement of the bunkers was excellent and if cleaned out and filled with proper sand (as is done on the West course) this course could be really nice.
Additionally there are no hole yardage markers on the tee boxes, no map of the holes on the scorecard, there was no drinkable water on the whole course and no cart came around. Stopped at the halfway house for drinks and snacks and it was closed.
This course has a chance to be really nice if they cared about making some basic improvements but it seems like they don't.

This is not the course I remembered; the sand bunkers and immediate area are not well maintained at all. They should be called MUD bunkers. Edge of bunkers not maintained at all, overgrown with weeds. Not worth the money and will not play there again

The sand traps are filled with weeds and standing water. There are no ball washers, trash receptacles, or water jugs. The fairways and greens are nice, but the rest of the place is run down

The bunkers are never tended here. Theyre basically lakes. 95 bucks for that is crazy

Sand traps were filled with water and weeds. A ripoff for $95. I’ve played here before and it was much nicer. Something’s going on there. Super slow round. 5 hours.

Sand traps were terrible. No drainage and overgrowth around all traps. No one at the pro shop. Not worth the price.

Course had a great layout but EVERY single bunker was full of water anx unplayable, some tee boxes either had a fungus or weeds sprouting up. Also the nats were out of control, need to throw some pesticides down. My playing partner and I were guessing the shortcomings came from a lack of funding.

The course has good fairways and greens. The sand traps are filled with water and where the traps are low with water, there is no sand.