Highland Park Golf Course — Attraction in Highland Hills

Short version: Google Maps "golf course" and go anywhere else

Have played just about all of the public tracks in the area focusing mainly on Cleveland metroparks courses (which to be fair enjoy tax and utility advantages that other independent public courses do not), but this place was a DOG TRACK. I'll take you tee to green on the Red course my first time playing:

Tee box: No problems

Fairways: It was June 15, we have had maybe 3 or 4 days total in the 80+s and fairways were long AND burned out. Public course so I don't expect or require short tight fairways as they require more watering, but I can't imagine there is any grass left by July

Rough: Condition of the rough was inexcusable. No exaggeration there was 6 inch long dead cut grass everywhere - rows and clumps. I have played $8 9 hole courses that were better than this. I would compare to playing fall golf when the leaves have fallen. Every other course I have played in my lifetime has managed to avoid this problem so I was sort of shocked by this. I want to stress that I am not a country club snob exaggerating about some grass clippings. My playing partner and I were laughing out loud multiple times because it looked like the grass just got its annual mowing. EVERY HOLE WAS LIKE THIS. If the fairways were in anywhere near decent shape, you could say ok then keep it in the fairway, but there honestly was not a lie on the course you could hit a crisp shot with a clean divot.

Greens: Greens would have been fine except that the previous hole cuts were filled with straight sand. Again I have never seen this at a golf course.

Overall layout: Layout is cool with some driveable fours and long 3s. #9 on the red course was a surprisingly great par 3.

Final recommendation: Honestly play anywhere else. There are so many other courses in the area that are better maintained for the same price - I think it was like $13 to walk 9 and I would not play here again for free. Shot a 42 so I'm not great, but not a complete hack. Layout has serious potential, but the course maintenance and condition...

If you want a country club, join a country club. This course is the quintessential urban track and it is easy to get on and play golf. There is no crowd. The bones of the course are lovely. Golf is what the course gives you, and you will get scratchy lies on the fairway and lose balls in the weedy rough. The greens have dead stripes where the mower leaked gas. But if you understand golf you will adjust for it. What you get is the convenience of walking on without a tee time and a group of golfing regulars who despise slow play who keep the pace moving. It is the perfect place to teach how to play and live golf -I think every golfer needs to introduce golf to at least two people every year and show them things like ettiquette and pace and this is the place to do it -you can have a 30 handicap and still play 9 in under 2 hours. Places like this will save golf from dying a slow long death. On the plus side, I see landscaping and more attention to upkeep which gives me hope. The staff return respect if given it -golf ettiquette. The fate of this course reflects in some ways the fate of the middle classes in this area, and I hope it continues to...

I think Google Review should set up a 0 score. I’m writing to express how upset I am about the way my son was treated by one of your employees, Mark, at the Highland Park Golf Course. My son recently went to the new driving range, and no one told him that drivers weren’t allowed to be used there. When I asked Mark about it afterward, instead of explaining the policy politely, he was extremely rude and even called my son a “smartass.” A week later, my son went back to the course just to play golf, not to use the range, and Mark met my son and made another sarcastic remark, saying, “Are you happy now, because the issue with the range had since been fixed." I’m honestly not sure if Mark felt he could get away with bullying a boy who wasn’t accompanied by his parents, since I always drop off and pick him up at the course. Either way, this kind of behavior is completely unprofessional and unacceptable. We’ve always enjoyed the course itself, but this experience has left us extremely disappointed. Management needs to address this immediately; no customer, especially a young golfer, should be treated with...