Gardner Municipal Golf Course — Local services in Gardner

Good start to the day, personable guy at the front counter. Bought a “bucket of balls” for $7… seemed like a good deal. Bucket of balls was less than half full….. could only shoot off turf. “Understandable if green isnt in good shape but it was in good shape” …. All in all it was a pretty decent course in decent shape… but once we were finishing up and waiting for the other players we payed to play with we were told to leave the course… we parked our carts to wait… we were rudely told by a couple of random older men to finish cleaning up our carts and to leave. They said they have expectations that we need to meet even though we weren’t even finished with our game. It was pretty rude and unexpected. The older folks who run the course could be a bit more understanding and nice. Considering my group spend well over $700 to be...

great course for mid-high handicappers. not much of a challenge for a scratch golfer.

great condition and well-maintained. i’d give it a higher rating, but i was made to wait 45 minutes at the turn due to greedy booking practices by the pro shop. i don’t know what universe they live in, but it is completely unreasonable to expect 9 holes at a municipal course to take less than two hours. and then instead of pushing the league (starting on the back 9… ?…) back a couple tee times to accommodate people who had already paid for 18 holes, those groups were instead stuck behind a gaggle of titanium-reinforced geriatrics.

at least the pro shop refunded the greens fees for the back 9, no...

Range Review:

Pay 7 dollars and you're lucky if you get 35-40 balls from that old broken pos machine. Then when you actually get the balls, none of them are actual range balls and 4 or 5 of them will be actually broken or scuffed beyond hittable. Rarely can you ever hit off grass and the mats are like hitting off pavement. O and they dont even have buckets for balls, you get a beer bucket from the bar lol. Place is a joke and I feel bad for people who use this range for the first time.

Do yourself a favor and drive the extra 15-30 minutes to Wachusett CC. Actual range balls and you get consistently the same amount for what...