Pembroke Country Club

If you are looking for a complete 18 hole New England style championship golf experience it is hard to beat PCC from a value perspective. $ 69 for 18 holes plus cart, excellent value.
The pros:
1. Challenging yet fair 18 hole golf course that will not bore you. Relatively tight fairways, medium length, with medium to large greens places emphasis on tee shots. Hit the fairway with reasonable length off the tee and you will score here. If you can’t find fairways I would play elsewhere.
2. Course condition better than average for sure, again especially for the cost.
3. Grass practice area a major bonus. Nothing worse than hitting from matts while practicing.
4. Generally few backups, 4:15 — 4:30 rounds in average.
5. Usually a pleasant helpful staff. Nothing worse than a snooty condescending attitude as thanks for shelling out greens fees. Good /​regular guys here that seem to remember players are the customers!
The cons:
1. Range balls — small size for $ 6.00. Practice balls should be free with purchase of 18 hole green fee, everywhere, IMO. However charge for grass hitting area I agree with. Hackers tear up grass practicing areas up not knowing how to mitigate their divot area, so I’m OK with paying at this facility for range balls. Side note, at least make the range balls available near the practice area, not 200 yards away at clubhouse!
2. Bunkers-​many lacking sand, many hard panned gravelly bunkers.
3. Greens, would be in good condition if not for poor player etiquette. Many spike
Marks from players dragging their spikes and every green littered with un-​repaired ball marks. I fixed at least 5 massive ball marks per green and could have repaired 20 at each green. Give players a free $ 0.50 ball mark tool and emphasize players repair their ball marks at check in. Simple.
4. 90 degree rule in play. Totally unnecessary, fairways not wet anywhere, only slows down play. Course is not Augusta national.
5. A couple of poorly designed holes that serve only to slow down play, particularly 13 comes to mind. Long par 5 with a 90 deg dog-​leg less than 200 yards from teeing area forcing high handicappers to attempt 250 yard carry tee shot over tree lined corner to have a chance at birdie or par.
With a little work, could be 4 – 5 star. I’ll be back!

Had a bad experience, was treated poorly by staff. Unfortunately, it’s usually the bad experiences that you tend to remember.

We had our wedding here this past New Years Eve and couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out.
Jo and her team did an amazing job setting up the room.
The Augusta Ballroom is a very large space and we had more than enough room for our 160 guests, photo booth, candy table, DJ, etc.

Stopped by for a Town event. The reason I say it’s not good is b/​c the food they had there. Ok, ok, I didn’t have any but it was bad looking bar food. They had a huge bar which was awesome. They aren’t open unless there’s an event going on. It could be so much more. A hockey player owns it, I heard. I’d love to take over a place like that.

True that before Roenick bought the course, it wasn’t exactly well maintained. That said, it was still a south shore jewel in that it wasn’t in complete shambles either, it only cost $ 24 to walk the course, it was a very well laid out scenic course, and it never seemed to be crowded. I could go as a solo player and not be grouped with other players most of the time.
Then…Roenick came into the picture and acted like we were playing Troon or the TPC, minus the amenities of course. I was dressed appropriately for a nice course but was made to tuck in my shirt. Funny that same week I saw a picture of Roenick playing the course with his shirt un-​tucked. The rates went up by about $ 20 per 18 holes. You can’t make an online tee time unless you’re a party of 3 or 4. And it’s pretty much the same course as it was pre-​Roenick.
This course was great but now it’s pretending to be something that it is not. I couldn’t be more disappointed.

Golf FAIL. There are so many better places than here. I walked away pretty unimpressed by PCC. Narrow fairways, so-​so investment in irrigation and landscaping making this course boring.

Awful condition. Jeremy Roenick may have bought the course but he hasn’t dumped any money into it yet. What a hole. I bought a Groupon to play here after reading the description of the course. What a crock. Save your money.

pembroke country club is a beautiful, well maintained course. and, like most beautiful things, it can be really dangerous. tight fairways, well placed bunkers, and water everywhere await the unwary.
online booking through their website is a breeze. you just need to give them a credit card to hold the tee time. and yes, that is jeremy roenick on their home page.
warming up is great on pcc’s all grass driving range. a medium bucket (the only size offered) is $ 7.
the layout of pcc really requires some thought. the par 5s are typically more open and the challenge is the length. the par 4s are tough. you can’t just grab your driver and go for it every time. the greens are guarded and several are elevated so if you miss long, you might be in the sand or find yourself 15′ below the green or in the woods. the par 3s are surprisingly long and heavily guarded so you really need to be accurate to make the green in 1. if you miss, you’re likely back at the beach.
the grounds are really well maintained and the staff was very laid back and extremely friendly. tee times run every 9 minutes and, from what i saw on a recent sunday afternoon, there are plenty of beginners playing this course.
i went with a groupon, so the rate for 18 and a cart was $ 35 or something like that. normal rates are very reasonable, though. later in the season it’s $ 45 after 12:30 p.m. on sundays. normally friday — sunday it’s $ 65. from the flyers posted around the clubhouse and pro-​shop, it looks like they do a lot of events as well — live music, a «9 and dine» deal, and things like that.
only about 45 minutes south of boston, pembroke country club is definitely worth checking out.

I really enjoy playing at Pembroke, and it’s typically a good deal for the money, but you really need to time when you come here, or you could be in for a frustrating round. Case in point, I once made a tee time here on Labor Day Monday and played a 6 hour round. Excruciating. A lot of times when it’s busy they just send people out one after another and don’t care how slow the pace of play is. I find it’s best to play this course mid-​week, and if you are going to play on a weekend make a really early tee time, it may not be fun to get up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday but you’ll appreciate it when you play a nicely paced round.
Additionally, Pembroke runs some great specials early and late in the season, about $ 25 and that includes a sandwich at the turn, which is a great deal. I played here semi regularly until the end of November last year, it’s great in the autumn if the weather is dry and warm enough. Services, however, are pretty limited here. I’d recommend bringing your own drinks and snacks, there’s no refreshment cart and they don’t seem to care if you bring a cooler of beers.
Kris is right about the bunkers, a lot of times it’s like hitting the ball out of cement, and then some of them are softer like they should be. Not very consistent. However, it really is a nice spot they have in Pembroke and it is one of the best golf bargains in the area.

Wow, what a find this was! I played all 18 here recently, and was incredibly impressed with the course. Here’s why:
Positives:
Excellent landscaping. The grounds crew here appears to work very hard to keep the course in prime condition. The fairways are all perfectly striped, and the greens are cut daily and are incredibly challenging. The course itself is beautiful to look at, set way back in the woods.
Challenging. This is the second hardest course I’ve played in Massachusetts. The greens are quick and well guarded. The fairways are thin, and the treeline starts about 3 feet outside of them. You really need to be accurate to play here. In addition, the course is very long. There are 4 par 4’s that play about 430 yards from the men’s tees. There’s also a 220 yard par 3. I shot about 5 strokes over my handicap here, even though I was playing pretty well.
Cheap! We played on a weekday, and it was $ 42 for 18 holes with a cart. That’s an unbelievable bargain considering the shape this course is in. Its 100% public and they’re very friendly.
Negatives:
Long haul out to Pembroke, well for me anyway. This is a good ways South of Boston, but I swear its worth it.
The bunkers are also in pretty tough shape. They were very hard and full of small rocks. There are also a ton of them, which would be fine if they were standard sand. It was sort of annoying because you have to really modify your bunker shot to get out of them properly.
My girlfriend also complained that it was pretty hard on women. To be fair, it kind of is. They only get about a 5 yard advantage on every hole, although their par for the course is much higher (71 for men, 74 for women, I believe). If you’re a woman that struggles to hit the ball 150 yards off the tee, you may want to consider playing somewhere else.
Overall rating: A–
I will certainly play there again!