Local Golf Courses that Escaped Your Radar

[nevets88]

I've been in the NY area for a long time, and never knew about this course. Wonder what other courses that I might like I've totally missed. There has got to be a better way to find local courses. I thought I knew them all. I suck. Lucked into finding this via Instagram. Score one for social media. Course is right up my alley based on first glance. Nothing fancy, reasonable rates. 9 hole options.

Timber Point Golf Course

 

[billchao]

If I know about it, I wouldn't be posting about it here 😉

[tehuti]

Plenty of courses around here. I may have heard the names, but I don’t know anything “about” most of them. 

[jamo]

There's a course a few towns away from where I grew up called Whitinsville Golf Club. Around a decade ago I saw it on a list of best nine-hole courses in the country. I had no idea it even existed. 

[jmanbooyaa]

@nevets88 Timber Point is a fun course. What 9’s did you play? 

[David in FL]

Nice!

I bet there are 50 golf courses within about an hour of me. But it would be very cool to find an undiscovered one lurking about in there!

[nevets88]

25 minutes ago, jmanbooyaa said:

@nevets88 Timber Point is a fun course. What 9’s did you play? 

Just discovered it. Will play it this weekend.

Another one I just learned about is Middle Bay.

[jmanbooyaa]

Hopefully the weather cooperates. The Blue course at Timber can get nasty if the winds kick up. Gibraltar!

[nevets88]

9 minutes ago, jmanbooyaa said:

Hopefully the weather cooperates. The Blue course at Timber can get nasty if the winds kick up. Gibraltar!

Thanks. I actually like hitting the ball low.

Also Bergen Point. 

Apparently I need to get my head out of my butt.

[jmanbooyaa]

I play Bergen quite frequently. Right up the road from me. West Sayville is a fun course right up the road from Timber. 

[AlDena]

El Cariso, in Sylmar, CA. County owned. I've heard the name because OJ played there when he had nowhere else to play, I guess. Found it a couple of years ago. Turned out to be a nice course, will all the water they want, even during the drought. 

[tehuti]

Navy “Cruiser” GC - Cypress, CA. 9 hole course. Technically it wasn’t off my radar, but the last time I had played there was 20 years ago or more. I just started playing again in 2017 and only recently played there again. It was kind of rough in the “old days”, so I was pleasantly surprised by how nice it is now.

[bwdial]

Legacy Golf Course on Lanier Islands

The greens fee includes range ball, soft drinks, and food.  Their "cathead" breakfast biscuit is enormous, and delicious.  The course itself is very nice and well maintained, and it feels like a bargain at twice the price.