Stony Creek Golf Course

If you’re a minority (black, latino, asian, etc.) and looking for a fun laid back place to golf, this place is NOT where you want to be. The employees (especially the older ones) makes you feel as if you are unwanted; no smiles, no hello, no explanations on standard procedures or anything.
After paying $ 8 per basket of golf balls for the range, we were told we cannot use the golf carts to go to the range, so we had to carry all of our heavy equipment with us. The employees checked up on us constantly, as if they were suspicious of us committing a crime. To our surprised, an older Caucasian couple came to the same range on a golf cart while we were still shooting the range.
After finishing, we walked back to our cars, as another employee came racing towards our way to check up on us. Again, no smile, no hello, and only the dirty look.
We will never go back to this place. Take your money elsewhere… somewhere where they will see your money as the same color as others.

After a couple days of business meetings in the offices of a teaming partner a few of us took to the course for half a day of relaxation. After a quick search I decided on Stony Creek Golf Course located inside the MetroPark. Unfortunately, players will have to buy a $ 7.00 day MetroPark entrance pass to get to the golf course. There’s no way around it but the good news is if you show your paid pass they give you $ 5.00 off your purchase so it’s really only $ 2.00 to get in.
Clubhouse: Nice clubhouse with a restaurant right next to the pro-​shop counter making it easy to order a breakfast sandwich for the go while paying for your game, range balls and picking up your cart.
— Pro-​shop: Decently stocked with just about everything you’ll need if you have your own clubs but if you’re looking to buy clubs then this isn’t the pro shop for you. A big plus was the box of gently used balls 4 for $ 3.00, all of which were in fantastic shape. Perfect for the beginning golfer or the not-​so-​good golfer like myself.
— Restaurant: Good food served fast. Post game I ordered the 1/​3lb burger and the veggies were fresh, more than ample amount of good cheese not that cheep processed crap and a well prepared average tasting patty. Commutatively it made a pretty good burger with Jalapeño chips and draft beer for $ 8.00.
–Service: The lady working the restaurant was really nice and efficient. The pro-​shop folks weren’t unpleasant but not very warming. A little smile and pleasantry would probably make a much better experience for everyone.
Ranges:
— Driving: The driving range is grass and located back in the woods behind the clubhouse. Range balls come in three basket sizes ranging from $ 3.00, $ 5.00 and if memory serves me correct $ 7.00. The distances don’t have numbers only poles. Although they are clearly seen they could use putting out a couple more. If they aren’t going to put the yardage on the markers themselves then they definitely should put out a distance chart annotating each marker. Overall it wasn’t bad.
— Chipping and Putting: I didn’t have time to practice chipping and putting so I’m not even sure if they had a area for these so I’ll have to pass this off to my fellow Unilocalers.
Equipment: Rental clubs are OK not much else. I also don’t think they have more than a few sets. The carts are equally just OK. They drive fine but are old and in need of updating.
Course:
— Fairways: Vary from straight and long to short and dog legged and except for a few holes not much of a slope. We got carts but in hindsight I wished we should have gotten pushcarts because of the beauty of the trees and grass on this cool crisp morning. Downside, bugs. Bring mosquito repellent. The grass on the fairway was in good growth and care. Far better than some of the public courses I’ve played around the country. The grass paralleling fairways wasn’t especially thick making it somewhat forgiving if you’re hitting out of it and not so helpful in stopping your ball from rolling into the drink. All the tee boxes, Blue, White, Gold and Red were well-​maintained, good job. Our lady golfer in our group appreciated it as so did we because she was hitting it awesome off the tee on this business associates game of best ball.
— Greens: Moderate to large sized with a steady moderate speed to them. I can’t remember size and play of the aprons so they couldn’t be too bad.
— Bunkers/​Sand Traps: All fairly reasonable to avoid, yet we didn’t. However, the bunker height also wasn’t to terrible to get out of and onto the green.
Overall: This is a good course at a fairly good price and I recommend coming out to play. However, since I don’t know many courses in the area to compare it to (being a visitor and all)…I’m giving it 3.5 Stars and rounding down to 3 only because customer service could’ve been better and I don’t know if they have a chipping and putting practice area. If they do I don’t know the condition. I can’t help it but I feel happy helpful people should man golf courses. There’s enough stress that people put on themselves with this game and the cost isn’t cheep so smile and make people feel it’s worth the time and money. Who knows you might just lower their score.

One of the nicest things about living in a capitalistic society is we get to vote with our $$$$‘s. I choose to avoid this place, for the most part, mostly because I have to step foot in the clubhouse to speak with the staff to pay. One sour customer service experience is tolerable, two, well, I guess we can understand everyone has a bad day once in a while… let’s just say if you visit this place 10 times you have about a 70% chance your golf mojo will be ruined for the day.
The golf is nice. I like the fairways and I like the greens. I even like the views. The problem is if I give my money to support this operation then rude people will continue to be rude.

Pretty darn good for a gov-​funded course! It’s the best of the metropark golf course system. It’s in the best shape right now as it has ever been, but the greens are slow for those who normally don’t play in munis.