The Facts:
What: 9 holes, walking
When: 7-16-2008, 5:30 PM
Cost: $17
Where: Rolling Greens Golf Club, 600 Cold Spring Road, Rocky Hill, CT
One key word describes Rolling Greens: Tight. Rolling Greens is a 9-hole public course. The course includes a small pro shop and restaurant with bar. The course is totally surrounded by condos. Some of the condos are so close that they must get regularly pelted with golf balls. This makes for a tight, and challenging course. Rolling Greens is not short. It is standard distance. However, because of the narrow fairways and frequent, sharp dog-legs, the driver can not be hit off the tee on many holes. If you like to haul off and whack your driver, this is not the course for you. If you enjoy the challenge of course management, you will appreciate Rolling Gree
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The course was in good shape overall – nothing out of the ordinary for a small public course in Connecticut. The tees and greens were in good shape. The fairways were ok, but hard. The sand traps were a little hard. Because of the condo roads meandering throughout the course it was at times difficult to locate the next tee. Some of the holes required a significant walk from green to next tee. Not a big deal, but a minor annoyance. One negative I did notice was the lack of water in some of the ball washers. That’s a pet peeve of mine.
We arrived at the course at about 5:20 PM. We were on the tee by 5:30. There was absolutely no wait. It was as if we had our own private course.
Although the course will never be mistaken for Pebble Beach, the low crowd, fair price, and decent shape will bring me back to play Rolling Greens again.
ns.The course was in good shape overall – nothing out of the ordinary for a small public course in Connecticut. The tees and greens were in good shape. The fairways were ok, but hard. The sand traps were a little hard. Because of the condo roads meandering throughout the course it was at times difficult to locate the next tee. Some of the holes required a significant walk from green to next tee. Not a big deal, but a minor annoyance. One negative I did notice was the lack of water in some of the ball washers. That’s a pet peeve of mine.
We arrived at the course at about 5:20 PM. We were on the tee by 5:30. There was absolutely no wait. It was as if we had our own private course.
Although the course will never be mistaken for Pebble Beach, the low crowd, fair price, and decent shape will bring me back to play Rolling Greens again.
The 19th hole was better than expected. The bar was well populated for a Wednesday night. It appears as though a lot of the condo residents patronize the bar separate from golf. Just be prepared for $4 bottles of beer.
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I myself had recently played a round at the Rolling Greens golf course. Although your assesment of the course was quite accurate, I feel compelled to add my two cents. Being fairly new to the activity of golf, (I still can't consider it a sport), I would not recommend this coarse to a first time golfer. I spent a considerable amount of time looking for my ball in the wooded hedge rows along the narrow fairways. Besides the amount of money wasted on lost golf balls, the torture and embarrasement of constantly bushwacking was enough for me to chalk it up as a nice walk around a condo-populated park rather than a competitive round of golf. However, I will return to this coarse with the mindset of playing these narrow and challenging holes will only help to improve my golf game.
Nice comment Brad -- er, I mean, Anonymous.
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