Comments on: Longaberger Golf Club (Nashport, OH) Review

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:48:02 +0000

This course is truly excellent for the price paid to play. I've played many of the world's best...and this is BY FAR the best value (or bang for the buck) out there.

The 8th hole is flat out cool and fun to play.

I recommend this course to any and everyone!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:50:49 +0000

I played Longaberger last weekend and I have to say it is a beatiful course. Not some where you want to play if your game is off though. The greens were extremely fast compaired to what Im use to. Im still having nightmares about 3 foot putts missing on the high side and rolling 15 feet past. Its a great course but if you play your short game and putting better be on!

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:20:40 +0000

Played a few years ago when the towel was part of the green fee (? if it still is?). Agree with above for the most part but I found myself very frustrated on many holes (15 hdcp). I would hit a nice drive/ middle of the fairway) and have a very low percentage second shot over water or waste. Not just a one time thing and not because I placed the ball badly. I don't mind a tough or challenging shot but these were so tight that any miss or near miss was fatal. I think I enjoyed Cooks Creek more. Loved the towel...on my bag today.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:48:22 +0000

Great review. I play Longaberger 2 or 3 times a year and choosing the correct tee box is a must. It can play very long and by the time you finish with #13, you wish you were done. It can eat you up if your game is suffering a little.
Prices have come down as play as slowed on the course. Waiting periods were long a few years ago, but I guess the newness has worn off.
If ever in central Ohio, give it go!

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:58:48 +0000

Played Longaberger a few weeks ago and I agree - it's a very, very good course. One of the things I noticed not already touched on is how spread out the course is. Playing one hole, it's as if that is the nly hole on the course. Plenty of wide open spaces between holes so you don't feel stacked on top of other holes.

And #18 is just fun.

One of the largest, if not the largest, clubhouses I've ever seen.

By: William M

William M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:23:21 +0000

Very nice review, this is the first I've read on the site and it was great! I'm about 2.5 hours away from Longaberger (clevelan) and played this course for the first time last summer. This immediatley became my favorite public/semi private course in Ohio that I have played. I got there late do unfortunatley didnt get to use the facilities all that much. I called them to let them know and they were more than understanding and did an excellent job of letting me off as soon as possible. I wish I could play there more but the distance + price makes it hard for me. Highly recommended to anybody comming to Ohio or into the area.

By: Matt M

Matt M — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:47:18 +0000

Great review I'm a huge fan of Mr. Hills design's. One of my all time favorite cousres is Half Moon Bay, I rate that over Spyglass in my book. Also as a member of a club with a Pete Dye course I can appreciate what you mean in their differences. I'm a huge Pete Dye fan, I like all of his work that I've played. His style is completely different than Arthur Hills. Where Mr. Dye will move tons and tons of land to create a course, Mr. Hills will move very little. It is always a treat to play a course where for lack of better words god made it. That is what Arthur Hills does, he is a minimalist and in my book a very good one. He seems to take a plot of land and massage it into a course not build it into a course. Truely a great architect.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:02:04 +0000

good review and a track to keep in mind if i find myself in ohio.

i'm not sure the early comparisons to pete dye courses are entirely accurate or a fair barometer of what makes a course playable by the masses.

the argument basically relies on one assumption that an arthur hills course and a pete dye course play to the same audience and are built for the same purposes which isn't quite accurate.

in maryland for example, we have two arthur hills courses nearby: waverly woods outside of columbia and blue mash outside rockville, and both courses are high-end daily fee tracks that have decent club houses, practice facilities and are a great changeup from the howard and montgomery county munies that are all chewed up and only charge a few dollars less. the pete dye course in the area? the LPGA championship host Bulle Rock and a premier golf destination in the mid-atlantic. dye's other big name courses open to the public? kiawah ocean, straits course in kohler, tpc sawgrass, etc.

while the premier public arthur hills tracks aren't in that company, they're certainly nice too, but 5 to 6 strategically placed tee boxes on a pete dye course certainly take the responsibility off dye to make the course playable by a high-handicapper. However, some egos get in the way and players tee it up where they shouldn't and end up cursing a dye course as unplayable, when in fact in can be just as playable as a non-championship-host daily fee course like those by Mr. Hills.