Banty's Roost Golf and Country Club - White/Red
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Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Black | 72 | 6866 yards | 71.6 | 126 |
Blue | 72 | 6319 yards | 70.9 | 123 |
White | 72 | 5846 yards | 69.6 | 118 |
Red | 72 | 5255 yards | 70.3 | 119 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Black M: 73.1/123 | 576 | 429 | 198 | 444 | 419 | 306 | 362 | 132 | 554 | 3420 | 122 | 387 | 419 | 526 | 431 | 213 | 548 | 202 | 598 | 3446 | 6866 |
Blue M: 70.7/121 | 552 | 392 | 174 | 407 | 386 | 262 | 317 | 119 | 538 | 3147 | 108 | 368 | 379 | 497 | 409 | 189 | 493 | 161 | 576 | 3180 | 6327 |
White M: 69.2/117 | 510 | 359 | 159 | 363 | 345 | 251 | 273 | 106 | 491 | 2857 | 102 | 348 | 363 | 474 | 374 | 162 | 462 | 153 | 551 | 2989 | 5846 |
Red W: 67.1/113 | 461 | 315 | 139 | 308 | 317 | 219 | 226 | 98 | 464 | 2547 | 85 | 294 | 322 | 453 | 352 | 138 | 422 | 136 | 506 | 2708 | 5255 |
Handicap | 3 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 14 | 6 | |||
Par | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
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Fairway. Photo submitted by mitchstemerdink on 08/18/2021
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Green. Photo submitted by mitchstemerdink on 08/18/2021
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Tee box. Photo submitted by mitchstemerdink on 08/18/2021
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View from 9th hole tee block. Photo submitted by stowe91 on 08/15/2020
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On the 9th hole tee block Photo submitted by stowe91 on 08/15/2020
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Photo submitted by juliand1989 on 06/08/2020
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Photo submitted by juliand1989 on 06/08/2020
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Hole #1 Red course Photo submitted by gorfme on 09/15/2019
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Photo submitted by Jkleiman on 09/27/2014
Saw 2 dead birds
Course not very well maintained. Grass needs some water. Also saw not one but two dead birds on the course. I guess you get what you pay for.
Awful
Hands down the worst maintained golf course I've been to in Ontario. They should just sell the course to a buyer who will do proper maintenance on it. Charging $60 for a round there is absolutely absurd. I wish more golfers would be honest when rating this course.
Getting better
Seems like bantys is under new ownership and they are trying to get it back to what it once was. The lack of rain hasn’t helped the fairways much but the greens were in excellent shape, the best in years. Rough was cut and fairways short. They grew some fescue in spots making it play tough. Overall it looks positive for old bantys, just need a little rain to help it out.
Quantity over Quality
Probably one of the most underwatered course I have ever played. Even fairway shots feel like your hitting off of cement. I would rather play a course with a decently kept 18 holes than a course like this that has 3 poorly kept 9s. Definitely a missable course.
You get what you pay for
Over the years, I've played this course many times. In the years prior to the ownership change, the Roost was never a Top 10 in the area, but it was decently maintained. After 3 years of decline to near bottom on the acceptable scale, this year shows marginal conditioning improvement. The greens are reasonable and the fairways are at least mowed to an acceptable height with far less weed content. However, the lack of irrigation gave us fairways that almost played like asphalt, with safe-looking drives taking crazy deviant bounces into the knee high fescue that lines practically every fairway. I usually never lose a ball here - this time I lost 5. Yes, we haven't had much rain, but isn't that exactly why golf courses have irrigation systems? I'll likely play here again, but I'll try to time it following a good rain.
Why I return I don’t know
Nothing changes at this place. The pace of play will have you taking 6 hours to finish 18. Holes. I WILL NEVER GO THERE AGAIN.
WOW - Horrible Experiance
I had a tee-off time for 9:50 and they ran out of golf carts. We finally got two golf carts and teed off at 11:30. The tee boxes where in really bad shape. If you go, you will need a hammer to knock your tee into the ground. The fairways are starving for water as well as the greens. This course has been let go with zero up-keep. Looks like they are waiting to tear it down to build houses at some point.
No golf carts
They made us wait an hour and 40 minutes to get a golf cart on Father’s Day.
Meh!
Had mechanic in on a Saturday replacing batteries on the busiest day of the week
Showed up early to hit the driving range. And staff didn’t rake balls from night before so couldn’t use the driving range
Staff didn’t wanna give us 1 cart showing up 45 mins early cause they were down 20 carts on the busiest day of the week
Course was in decent condition. Greens weren’t dried from rain previous day.
No beverage cart on the course
Overall not worth the $80 for the round. Probably won’t go back
only issue is we did plan to walk 18 holes, There was a cart issue. Luckily we did get a cart for the last 9 holes which this is a course that isn't designed to be walk. average yards of 300 on white and red tees. Thankfully the blue course wasn't as long ....
A good day for golfing
Played on a Friday around noon, no driving carts were available so I had to walk, but I was OK with that since I brought my own pull cart anyway. Played the blue and white courses, they were both in pretty good condition, fairways and greens were well-maintained, but if you hit a ball off into the rough tall grass you’d lose it for sure. This is definitely not a high-end premium golf course, but certainly more than adequate for a nice afternoon of golfing, especially when you haven’t played for a few Covid years.
Horrible experience
The course is an awful condition. No marshall in sight, waiting minimum 5 mins per shot while the group ahead hits two balls each. Save your money, this place is a joke and poorly managed.