Skyway Golf Course — Local services in Jersey City

It’s sad for me to write this review because I have played at Skyway several times and I have had nothing but great things to say about this place. The conditions are always great regardless of the season and the staff has always been so kind and welcoming. It’s crazy how one person can truly ruin your experience. But reading past reviews it seems to be an experience many people have had in the past few years.

My friends had invited me to play golf with them, they are from over seas and it was their first time playing golf in NY, so I booked us a tee time at skyway. Everything went smoothly, we checked in, proshop staff, starter, everyone was so kind! The starter informed us the pace of play is 2hrs 15mins and we understood that. With myself being 7 months pregnant, my friends and I decided to play a scramble from the front teebox. Well, starting at hole 2, that’s when the ranger yelled at us to play faster. And then it went downhill from there. He harassed us the entire round, then on home 8, stopped us and told us if we want to come back we need to be better, play better, be faster. We held up NO ONE. We finished in two hours. I was appalled. I went to the proshop afterwards to complain. I explained the situation to the manager and even when I told them I don’t expect anything they gave us a rain check. But, honestly this ranger has to be fired. He targeted us from the very beginning. This was suppose to be a fun day on the course, possibly my last one since I am in my last trimester, and this foul old man completely ruined our experience. Telling a pregnant woman to move faster and be better. Ridiculous...

Impressed by how well the course is set up and maintained. False fronts were impeccably mowed, green were actually detailed complexes, undulating and incredibly difficult yet interesting to mid to high handicapper. One could reach the green on 1 or 2 par 4’s with an aggressive line but there is water trouble if you miss hit and the holes are well protected with bunkers in play on approach shots and multi-level greens that demand your attention. No doubt the difficulty begins with the wind, but there’s tons of long wispy grass lining the fairways, also on strategic mounds that penalize bad drives but they slope inward, which for an average golfer translates to a few good bounces a round. This is a course with ample diversity that requires precision off the tee on some holes and presents more variety in shotmaking than most NY/NJ metro area 18 hole courses. You’ll be pleasantly surprised if you were playing for the first time. When you enter the facility, the parking area it looks a bit industrial in keeping with the neighborhood, but inside is a quality pro shop, decent chipping, putting green and covered waiting area. On the course you are treated to midtown and wtc views on a few holes, but the NJ turnpike and the old power station give the course character. We waited on a few holes but round was less than 2 hr 30 mins, which is above par for any NY area...

Very bad experience on a Sunday afternoon. Just when we arrived at the first tee box, the starter (i.e. also the ranger) began to complain that the pace today has been super slow. I tried to ask when we could started, and he began to mansplain how he couldn’t send singles (btw we were twosome) and we have to wait for another group blah blah. Of course we knew we have to combine with another group- it’s not our first time playing golf. After we started, he just stared down at everyone playing the first tee with very judgmental eyes and complain whenever someone hit a bad shot. When we get to the sixth hole, he drove to us saying we are behind, there’s a full empty hole, and we need to pick up our ball and move ahead. Ok we are definitely not pros but definitely not an obnoxious group that slows everyone down. Well guess what, we picked up our pace (under his watchful gaze), and when we got to the next hole, the group ahead of us was still at the tee box, waiting for the group ahead of them to clear the green! Not sure if the starter / ranger was just being obnoxious but this is totally ridiculous. Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention, the brake of the cart was also broken, and we had to make sure we park it on flat surface all the time to prevent it from...