Green Hills Golf Course Tee Times

READ THIS BEFORE GOING TO GREEN HILLS!! Green Hills Golf Course is really a challenging course. I was not expecting what I found when I arrived at Green Hills. The course is set in the rolling hills down a very rural road. The employees are a little strange, and the clubhouse is pretty rundown. The tee boxes are in rough shape, the fairways are a little better, and the greens are pretty awesome. They are really fast yet soft and receptive. They have some blemishes on them but the other 95% of the greens are in great shape. The black tees play pretty long, about 3800 yards(it's only 9 holes). It's $15 to play 9 on the weekend after 3PM and if you pay $17 you can play as much as you want. The beverage girl was actually playing in the group in front of us, and she kept offering us drinks, but we didn't know she worked there until after the round when we found her behind the front desk. This course is tough to get to, and it's a tough setup, weird people, crappy amenities, but everyone should play it once, it's a good experience.

12 years ago

I'm extremely conflicted in writing this review. The course is challenging and fun to play, but is probably in the worst shape I've ever seen a course. The pictures on their website should probably be pulled down as they are a gross misrepresentation of what you'll find when you get there. Would I go back and play again? Probably just to work on my long game and shot placement. As another reviewer said the tee boxes are just dirt with little grass. I thought I was going to need a hammer to get my tee in. The fairways are indistinguishable from many places from the rough and nearly every green was so dry that the surface was brown and cracked. Other reviewers have commented on the greens being destroyed by vandals. This is the case and the gentleman at the pro-shop made us aware of it before we went out. I don't think we realized just how bad it was. If you're looking to play a round, spend $30 somewhere else because even though it's $22 to play here, it'll cost you at least $10 in gas just to find it.

11 years ago

I love this course. It's a 9-hole facility, built in the 30s by an architect who know what he was doing. Every hole is a fun, interesting challenge. Wide bouncy fairways, great green complexes, fun traps and hazards. There are numerous tee complexes that can make the course an entertaining pitch and putt, or an absolute beast. But be forewarned!!! Right now 4 of the 9 greens are basically mud. I don't know if they're working on them or not. The other 5 aren't in great shape either, which is terrible because a month ago this place could have hosted a U.S. Open from the "Monster" tees. The course was rock hard, with lightning fast and perfect greens. Apparently someone sprayed weed killer on the greens and they are dead or dying. The pro shop is not going to forewarn you of this either. Crab grass is starting to grow up from the mud. I have no idea if they're trying to fix it. If the course does recover, it's worth checking out even just for the architectural history of it. And like the previous reviewer said, it's a great course to use as a training ground for competitive tournaments because from the back tees the course rating is 4 over par for 18 holes, with no level lies....but right now there's just nothing once you get to the greens. Someday the course will come back again, it always seems to. Ten years ago this place was absolutely unplayable. No fairways, weeds overgrowing the place, unmowed greens... yet people kept going anyway because the course itself is truly great. If it were a boring course, it would have closed 20 years ago. Maybe someday it'll be restored to greatness, like Bethpage Black or Harding Park. Anyway, if you do go now, insist on a discount. I'm sure they'd let you on for half-price since half the greens are dead.

11 years ago

I agree with all the posts so far. Decent layout, but I don't know if I'd call it a golf course. I paid the greens fee and the guy asks if I've been here recently. I tell him that's it's my first time. He warns me that the greens are the jewel of the course, but unfortunately half of the greens are in "pretty bad shape" due to some vandals and roundup. I become a little agitated (since I just paid) and ask him if it's worth the money/are they playable. He said "yeah, the rest of the course more than makes up for it". No offer of a discount or a refund though. While the layout and design of the course may have been worth the greens fee, the current condition of the course made me wish I went somewhere else instead. We go out and I have to wipe down the cart seat to dry it off (storm just rolled through) and to clear the spider webs and pine needles off the seat. It didn't look like any of the other 10 or so carts they had were in better shape. I found that the tee boxes were just hard flattish areas with the spotty grass mown low. The fairways weren't too bad, but there was no differentiation between it and the rough in 95% of the areas. The greens may have been serviceable at some point, but I wouldn't call them a jewel. The ones that were destroyed were definitely destroyed. Just hard burnt out dirt, no point in even trying to putt a ball over them. The sand traps had very little sand, and obviously wet and hard from the rain...although I don't think they could be groomed enough to be considered "nice". The 1 pond on the course was so overgrown you could barely see the water. I'd really like to see what the course would be like if someone dumped a lot of money into it to clean it up. But I won't be back any time soon.

11 years ago

All that has been said is perfectly true. This is a run-down, beat-up course. But I gave it four stars anyway. Why? The first hole requires a tee shot past a deep forest of trees to the right and a slope that takes you down to number 9 fairway to the left. You have two gullies to get over on your way to the hole, and a green that is viciously hard to read. The par 5 second hole is brutal. A shot right goes into the forest, a shot left goes steeply left into a line of trees. Plus you have a ridge to clear and the green is squeezed up against the forest on the right and a forest behind and it is mostly blocked by a trap along the left and front. The par-4 third hole: dog-leg right, no safety shot left. Anyone with a slice will never see their ball again. The green runs counter to the fairway so you have only a narrow neck to shoot into. Four is a dog-leg left par 4. Horrific decline to the green, miss left and you lose your ball, miss right and you will be shooting down a very steep long hill to a small green. The green is also viciously sloped. The Fifth may be the toughest par 4 between here and Merion. Over water, left is trees, right is swamp, and there are no level lies. The approach to the very elevated green, tucked hard against some trees, is insane. A deep bunker, narrow approach . . . and if you land short the ball will roll backwards 40 yards. Go long and your putt downhill can roll into the trap. Six is a workaday par 3. Seven is a somewhat average par 4 . . . but the tees are right on the OB marker and it is OB all the to the green and you have to hit left to miss the slope out of bounds. But go too far left and you will take two more shots and have to come in over a difficult bunker to get to the green. Eight is a short par 3 with a green that is unforgiving. If the flag is to the right, you are better off short than hitting it on the green.If you go above the hole your first putt is very likely to roll off the green. Nine is one big drive--and then a tiny wedge. The approach and the green are nothing to fool with. You can hit a great drive and have to hit a very high approach just to clear the ridges and trap to the right or left and if you hit it too far, your putt back is unmakeable. And if you go over the green, you have little hope of holding it on the way back. This course requires thought, thought, and more thought. If I were still playing competitively, I would use this as my practice course.

11 years ago