Dauphin Highlands Golf Course

Incredibly disappointing. The tee boxes, fairways, and greens are all so poorly maintained that it’s barely worth playing. It’s only April and the tee boxes are already completely chewed up. The fairways are loaded with divots. The greens have so many pitch marks on them that you can’t find a clean putting line to save your life. A local guy I was paired with said that people don’t fix divots or pitch marks there. Apparently the greenskeepers don’t bother doing it, either. The bunkers were in pretty decent shape and the course has the potential to be pretty nice, but there’s zero emphasis placed on course maintenance. They also jammed tee times together and stuck random singles in between groups, so things were ridiculously backed up. I paid for a range bucket and the machine told me that my code had already been used 5 minutes prior to when I purchased the bucket. The golf carts are old and barely make it up some of the hills on the course, even when you’re on the path. The tee time was cheap, but I wouldn’t waste my time or money going back. I realize that I’m biased because I’m from the Philly area where we are spoiled for well maintained public courses, but there’s no excuse for this course to be this poor. The only thing that earned a second star was the course layout. The layouts of the holes were fun and decently challenging. Bunker placement forced me to play strategically and not just blindly smack drives down the fairway. Elevation changes also made some of the holes more interesting. If you don’t place a premium on course quality and just want to get out and play, then by all means this will be fine. However, if you keep a handicap and want to play a course that is maintained the way a course reasonably should be, don’t waste your time and money. I shudder to think what this course will look like in another month or two if it’s this bad now. Shame on the maintenance staff and the superintendent for allowing it to get this bad. Google maps won’t let me review the course and the most recent review is 5 months old. There’s clearly an effort to avoid negative reviews here, so be wary of this course.

Overall good layout with several challenging features

This course used to be very good (excellent). On this day, its green was very slow; and fair way needs to be repaired.

Greens not cut. Payed $26, so can’t be too mad about it. Would pay $27 to play again considering it’s March golf.

Excellent course for the money. Weekday pace of play was fast. Finished 18 holes in 2.5 hours.

Club house folks were very friendly and accommodating.

Great course layout. The course and greens were in good shape considering the time of year and just coming out of winter.

Pace of play was a bit slow due to 2 walkers out of foursome who slowed the game a bit.

No bathrooms along the course, only at the 1st/10th hole. Very hard for a female when there are no bathrooms. Group of two sandwiched in between groups of four, the group ahead was terribly slow which led to a very long 18 with no bathroom options…you get the point. Hoping that is due to the time of season, but we shall see. Nice course, front 9 are fun and back 9 are challenging. Course is well kept.

Love coming here, staff is always good to my group. Cart guys are always happy and beverage girl always gets us what we need. 10/10 recommend.

The pace of play here is disastrous. Was wrongly accused of playing slow by a starter who clearly doesn’t know or play golf. Went straight to the African American on our group and told him to pick it up. Told her that we have been waiting on every hole and she said she’s heard that before. Interesting that once a big corporation buys it, everything goes downhill.

Course was great visiting from Chicago wanted to play it was a busy day pace of play was a little slow but understandable very tricky greens looks like it's going to break left and then it breaks right Overall I would definitely play again and recommend to friends

Probably the nicest public course in the area. Everything is well kept. They also have some discounts for seniors, locals, and military, which is nice to see. Would definitely recommend giving it a try!

One of the hottest days of the year. Course plays nice. I agree with everyone else’s reviews that it gets backed up. Took 4.5 hours to play 18 on cart. I played solo but was paired up with 3 others. I booked 18 with cart, however upon playing. I was not alloted a cart. The starter made me ride with the other 3 some, 2 and 2. I did not know the other gentleman and found it extremely awkward that they made me ride along with the other gentleman. Playing with them is no problem, but forcing me to ride a long with them in cart was something I’ve never experienced and isn’t the normal. Not only that, but when I asked the starter for my own cart since I paid for 1, he said nope, “no sir, you’re riding along with them.” AwKaArD.

No matter what time you go it’s going to be a minimum of 4.5 hours usually 5. Won’t go back.