Grand View Golf Club

Tight course, so I was expecting it to be challenging. But the main challenge was trying to figure out how to putt through a minefield of unfixed divots. Tee boxes were mostly just dirt and just made it look like nobody cared. I will say the views from the course are pretty nice though!

Requires the use of all the clubs in your bag. Shot placement essential. Great course for the money. Highly recommend this course.

The hot dry weather made the fairways and tees dried out.

We started our back nine and the owner asked us to skip two holes because a group of 6! members (Already unfair) that we were playing slow because we had 2 beginners with us. Didn’t give us any money back. They course conditions were essentially burnt grass and the owner is a complete Joke. Save your green fees for a different course that’s fun to play

Super fast greens today that’s for sure. Such a difficult course but, so fun every time I get the chance to play.

The fairways were extremely dry and hard, much of the grass was dead. There were also dried out spots on the greens.
There was no food at the clubhouse. The excuse was COVID-19. (hot dogs came in later)
This course does have nice views of the river and Kennywood Park, however the course conditions were more relevant to me.

The layout of this course makes it challenging in spite of being a shorter course, my one complaint is that the fairways were not well maintained...part of that is likely due to the current dry season but it still affected some shots

I booked this course on a whim as I just moved to Pittsburgh from Denver. The price ($25 hot deal including cart) was a steal compared to CO prices. Based on the distance, I figured it would be an easy round, but it was far from it. Excellent elevation change and hole variation, though there were plenty of dry, hard-packed areas on the course. I'll be back here for sure.

The Good -
Love the course layout. Quite a bit of thought into club selection on most of the tee shots, for me only used my driver on holes 1, 10 & 18. The course is fun and plays at a good pace with amazing views.

The Bad -
The tee boxes for 16 out of 18 holes were all sand and crab grass. The ladies tee boxes were randomly placed in the rough just before the start of fairway on a few holes. Some greens had crab grass on the fringe which made things suck if you landed there, which I did a couple times. The greens were recently aerated and that made it hard to get a good putt going but it is that time of year. If you get bent over losing golf balls, this place ain’t for you. Accuracy over distance for this course.

I’d play this course again and recommend it to friends, but hopefully the tee box and green issues with all the crab grass get worked out soon.

Great layout and scenery on the course. Terrible, terrible, terrible conditions. It was like they haven’t watered all summer.

Tee boxes in desperate need of repair. Course requires not just accuracy and club selection, but a fair amount of luck. So many blind shots you never really could see where you were going. The golf cart, and GPS was the highlight. Views along the course were great, but the course was not.

In all fairness, the drought killed the overall look of this course but I fee there were areas that could’ve been better. There were at least 4 greens that were burnt and almost all tee boxes and fairways were burnt. I’ve played the course in the past and I know how nice this course can look and play and was overall disappointed. Pace of play was the worst part. We teed off at 10 and made the turn around 115... no rangers on the course to push pace of play and they were letting larger groups play together... I just expect more from a course than a 5.5 hour round and burnt fairways and greens

I could have paid less by going directly through the course. This was not a hot deal because we would only have paid 25.00 a round anyway.

This course is so much fun to play!! It is challenging and rewarding. The variety of holes, excellent condition of greens and fairways, and pleasant atmosphere makes this course a gem. I started playing Grandview in spring 2019. First time out, shot 100. I've played it seven times since then. The last time, shot 80. A personal best! This course teaches you discipline. I will continue to play as often as possible.

I play this course every couple of years just to remind myself how truly strange it is. Fairways tighter than PGA tour stops, massive changes in elevation but great greens.
They cut the fairways back recently to aerate them but with no rain they are as hard as the parking lot and impossible to get a ball to hold on.
The greens were country club quality and an honest test.
At $18 with fees this course was sadly priced about right.

I can't think of a single thing that I don't like about this course.