Oldest public golf course in the US. Gets a lot of use. Challenging course and the 119 rating is deceiving. Another great course to learn the game. Early play is great because almost everyone is serious in the early AM. Need to have a cartgirl on the course. Mid-morning early afternoon is major slow play time. Staff is helpful. For a NYC course it is good.

Getting to the course is easy if you don't drive and live in the City. Take the 1 train to the last strop on the 1 line (get to the front of the train), keep right at the end of the platform, turn right down the stairs of the station and walk 5/10 minutes through the park on your left. Walk under the bridge turn left and the club house is in front of you. The course is laid out in 4 groups of holes with a little bit of walking between each group. If you would like to walk and carry your clubs its not bad in the spring or warm autumn months but it is not nice in the hot summer/freezing months. Hole Groups: Short walk from club holes to - 1 - 2 - 12 - 13 - 14 When finished hole 2 it is a slightly longer walk to hole - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 After finishing hole 7 you walk back on yourself to the 3rd group of holes which should take no more than 5 minutes - 8 - 9- 10 - 11 Finishing hole 11 gives you a slightly up hill walk to the final group of holes - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 When you finish the last you have a 10 minute walk back to the club house. I know its near winter and you have to expect some kind of ground repair at this time of year but I did not expect over half the greens to be out of play. Currently they have temp greens while new greens are being installed or old one being repaired. I shouldn't complain as we had a reduced rate for the round ($30). The greens that were playable we good, though needed a trim (time of year again I think). Everything other than that was OK, plenty of leaves on the ground (its fall after all) so expect to lose a few balls in the fairway. It started fast but we caught up with a few groups in front, one guy teaching his 3 kids to play, he would not let anyone through w4nk8r. So what would of been a quick round of golf during November ended up being a typical summer round of 5-6 hours on a NY public golf course. He obviously wasn't teaching the golf etiquette. I like this course because of the long par 5's and the last 4 holes, its fun and even better when you score your best ever score (though I think that was to do with the temp greens being 20 yards or so closer to the tee).