Boulder Creek Golf Club - Streetsboro OH

[jsgolfer]

So my wife and I didn't make it to Lorain OH last week as she hurt her knee, so we rode up today.  While driving on 80 in Ohio, saw a nice looking course off the side of the road.  

Boulder Creek Golf Club - Looks very nice.  Looked it up online and it says the following, never seen that anywhere before.  Not all low handicap golfers are fast, but then they also have a 3 strike policy for pace of play, as well as a they tell you the course is hard and there is a good possibility of a 5 hour round on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Any Ohio TST'ers played here?

 

During Peak Season in 2016 defined as June - August - Friday/Saturday and Sunday, Players must be a 15 handicap or lower to tee off earlier than 8:30 AM. Please understand that these tee times are a privilege and will define the pace of play for the entire day. We thank you for your understanding.

 

 

 

 

[Yukari]

Rather than going by HCI, I wish courses would require a foursome to play under 4 hours if teeing off before 8 AM.  If they fall behind 2 hours for the front nine, have them pick up and go to a hole where they are suppose to be at that time.  This would force many people to adopt a better pace of play routine.

But alas, that would never happen.

[Jeremie Boop]

It's a nice looking course but I don't know that I'd play it unless I was in an outing there. $65 for a round isn't really something I'd pay just to play on my own and nobody I know around here would drive that far let alone pay that much.

[mcanadiens]

Looks like a lot of trees and a lot of water. Wrong end of the state for me and $65 is a bit too steep.

[MSchott]

Is this the course you see off the turnpike when going east towards the Streetsboro exit?

[jsgolfer]

Yes

[rkim291968]

On 8/20/2016 at 10:42 AM, Yukari said:

Rather than going by HCI, I wish courses would require a foursome to play under 4 hours if teeing off before 8 AM.  If they fall behind 2 hours for the front nine, have them pick up and go to a hole where they are suppose to be at that time.  This would force many people to adopt a better pace of play routine.

But alas, that would never happen.

Fully agree.  HCI does not correlate well to how slow/fast one plays.  Instead, the course should enforce pace.  It's not too hard.  

[dave s]

Yep, course is in Streetsboro, OH and can be seen from OH Turnpike.  Price is high, but it is one of the nicer tracks anywhere in NE Ohio.  Very much 'target-golf' track.

I did not see the disclaimer on the website.  The only time my golf mates and I will play there is when they drop the rates to around $50 later on a Saturday or Sunday.  No special rates to be had and the price increases as the week moves toward weekend.

My guess is they have a good number of regulars who snag up the early tee times regularly on Sat and Sun mornings.  The disclaimer comes off a bit 'elitist' to me.  There are a couple of other courses like Windmill Lakes in Ravenna and Seven HIlls in Hartville where it's difficult to even get an early weekend tee time due to 'regulars' who are afforded regular standing early tee times. We tend to shy away from the courses with such policies.

dave