Really disappointing experience at Shaker Hills today. We’ve been looking forward to playing here as it’s marketed as #1 public course in Mass. and this is absolutely not the case. The course layout is enjoyable, but you’re paying for rooftop shots off a mat, and a drive through snack bar. This is all a distraction from the extremely poor condition of most fairways and all greens. Pace of play was good, but when you book the course sends you a list of rules which includes them stating you will be paired up to keep pace of play. This includes them moving your tee time up more than two slots. This is somewhat understandable, but then they sent our foursome off with two separate twosomes behind us. We were approached by a ranger on hole 13 and he stated if he had to come back we would be required to skip two holes. We explained that we let two separate twosomes play through and his response was “when you do that it makes them look better, and you look worse”. All around just a poor experience and not anywhere near the price they are charging for the course conditions or overall experience.

5 months ago

Shaker Hills was well worth the 2-1/2 hour drive. It’s a fun course with a variety of holes. The fairways and greens were in good condition. The entire staff was warm and inviting. I loved the drive through refreshment hut, and the rooftop tee box is a fun and original twist. The only thing keeping this from being a 5 star review is that the pace of play was a bit slow (4:45) without a ranger in sight. The edges of the rough are often hard packed rock and dirt. The carts could also use an upgrade. Overall, a nice experience that was worth the higher price.

a year ago

Terrible experience here! Coming from Ireland to play no.1 course in MA. It’s a OK course, with the rooftop tee and drive through snack bar which are interesting. However, the course management and cart GPS doesn’t allow anytime to players to really enjoy these!!! We are about 10 mins behind the course standard on the 9th tee. While no one behind us that we been asked to pick up the pace and pass the 10th tee and come back afterwards. We respect the management and come back at 10th, got told than the tee time is full and we cannot play 10th anymore. And the group behind us got told to skip 2 holes and go in front of us and my driver onto green almost hit them because their been told to squeeze in front of us. This is terrible course management, nobody enjoys golf! And when we talked to the manger Andy, his is the worst people I ever talk with. No appreciation at al, only willing to give a club logo golf ball while we have 4 players?! And he ended the conversation by walking away?! I been playing the European and never had such terrible golf experience! I wouldn’t say this is no.1 course at less the management team. The Green tee are all under repairs, so ladies were not enjoyable as the move tee so much forward while no more challenging! And the staff are working on the bunker with lots of dust throwing into our face! Not recommended to spend 150 dollars each on this. 60 bucks course is better than this.

6 months ago