Lion's Paw/Panther's Run Golf Links — Local services in Shallotte

Do not book a tee time at oceans ridge golf. I booked a tee time for a large group to play 36 holes months in advance and had to cancel (and did so months in advance as well) unfortunately. Well I get a call from the course at 8 am on that day saying they are going to charge me about $2.5k because our group did not show up, the man was extremely rude and laughed at me and said unless there was something I could show them that had proof of cancellation then he was going to charge my card he had on file. So I had to search through my emails and find the cancellation onfirmation email and contact the course again. He asked why I acted like I had no idea what I was talking about (maybe because I knew I had canceled this months in advance and he was being very rude???) and said to send him what I found. I did not get an apology for being threatened to have to pay $2,500 for THEIR mistake. If you heard the phone conversation you would be surprised how horribly they would treat the consumer. Could not recommend placing your business elsewhere enough and I would not trust them with any of your...

Worst greens I've ever played. Grab grass patches on the green that were 2 inches long, dead spots everwhere, the greens were longer than the fairways...garbage. Their greens keeper must have just quit. They claimed not in season so its being worked on. Excuse for not taking care of the course. Oh yeah they charged us full price too. We had a rain check for 4 people. We came back with 3 people and we said don't worry about the 4th no need to give us an extra rain check back. $65 per person We asked for a small bucket to warm up and they charged us. I was thinking didnt we just give you $65 back because the 4th person isn't using it and then you charge us for a small bucket? This place needs to take some etiquette and mowing classes. Find a better...

Course alone deserves a 4 star rating. 2 stars comes due to the staff at check in the pro shop. Complete jerk. Not customer focused. Not welcoming. Questioned his associate whether or not we had checked in all 6 golfers as if we we trying to not pay for all our golfers. Admonished his associate openly over her error in registering 2 of our group. When asked if there was a military discount, his response was 'military? Are you kidding? Everyone is military down here. But thank you for your service'. Condescension amongst staff was broad. The gentleman that checked us in at the pro shop should not be handling customers. Being a local - I will not come back and advise my golfing community to not waste...