Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course

 

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Budiarto R.

New York, NY

8/13/2009

First time golfing last week and we went to Van Cortlandt which turns out to be the oldest US golf course, cool fact.
Had to rent the clubs, about 29 bucks, not bad, got nike clubs. The guy working told us that we could walk the course..... big BIG mistake, rent the golf cart, especially if you suck at golfing like me, you're gonna be walking around a lot.  17.50 per person for the golf cart
It was i think 25 bucks per person to play, the golf course was fun, well maintained public course. They had this girl driving around with a cart selling gatorade... thank god!!
The day we went to play it wasn't busy at all, maybe cause it did rain from hole 3 - 6 (yes we played on). We played in the afternoon so once the rain stopped, it was hot as hell.
Overall i like this place, i would definitely comeback and play some more here, hopefully it'll take less than 200 strokes next time... and maybe sneak a smart car in there.

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Ian H.

New York, NY

6/13/2008

For those of us who live in the city this place is real convenient. You can get there either with a cab for 30 bucks or even take the 1 train.
The course has been cleaned up in the last year or so and is in good shape. It's cheap too.
The course layout is pretty decent, a good mix of long and short holes, a few hilly holes, but for a cheap price and a cab ride more than worth it

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ryan b.

New York, NY

6/22/2008

i like van cortland... it's a solid city course, and has some history to it (opened in 1895 and was first public golf course in the u.s.), but you have to pick your times wisely when you play during peak season (which apparently was yesterday, 6/21/08 - a saturday tee time, 2:23 pm).  

by that time, the place was out of carts it was so packed.  i don't mind walking, so i volunteered our group to forgo waiting for a cart.  this pushed us ahead in line and got us to the first tee on schedule.  when we arrived though, there were 4 groups waiting to tee off... 16-20 people hovering, antsy, all around the tee box.  how's that to calm your first tee jitters?

anyway, i drank 2 beers before i hit a golf ball, and the rest of the day summed up to about 6.5 hours of of bad drives, lots of standing around waiting using a club as a crutch, and juggling my golf ball with a wedge around the tee box.  the course itself is fine, and a decent deal accessible to manhattan, but seriously, this place can get backed up, so pick your times wisely.  better yet, see who is playing through the morning.  if it's a "group/party/outing", that means the day is effed, and you'll have a bunch of slow players in front of you who signed up for an outing with a bar, and are really just out there to hack it up and get drunk.  not a bad day by any means, but not on a day when i actually want to play golf.  i don't get a lot of those these days...

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