Elks Run Golf Club

Easily one of the best public facilities in Cincy. They’ve successfully renovated numerous bunkers over the past 24 months.

This was my first time playing Elk Run Golf Club and I will definitely play it again. This was the 61st round of golf that I have played this year at 32 courses and Elk Run is my new favorite course. The course layout and design were great. Staff was super friendly. Pace of play was awesome too.

I don't usually write a review but feel this is warranted.
I played Elks Run yesterday, November 8th and having played here many many times in the past, I have to say the course has never been in better shape!! Coudos to the ownership and maintenance staff for making this course one of the top courses in the area of Cincinnati. I play a lot of golf so I know what the other courses around Cincinnati have to offer. This has nothing to do with staff, but I wish golfers would repair their pitch marks!! It is sad to see a course this nice have these ball marks all over the green. Having said that, I will happily repair a few ball marks per green in order to enjoy this course. Keep up the great work!

The course was in great condition. Greens were fast and hard to hold in the afternoon. So play your wedges short and let them bounce to the pin. Really good value . Pace was slow .

Nice course, have played there many times over the past 2 or 3 years. Given that the area is experiencing a drought, I was surprised to see what good shape the fairways were in. Greens were good as they always are.

I have booked on line to play Elks Run several times the past several years & never had an issue. This year I booked via Golf Now & had a terrible experience. I booked a “hot deal”
on line that was supposedly better than calling the pro shop. The “hot deal” charged me $59.99 for each players (booked a foursome) plus a $14.04 “convenience fee”. It was anything but convenient. They immediately charged my credit card $254. Had I called the pro shop to book the tee time we would have gotten the $49 senior rate & no “convenience fee”. Golf Now cost us $58 MORE than calling for a tee time. One of the players in our foursome had to cancel due to a conflict. So we ended up being a threesome. We cancelled more than 48 hours in advance. 2 days after we played Golf Now has yet to reimburse me $64 for the cancelled 4th player. Using Golf Now was a total rip-off.

Course was slow play out of the gates. Take 5 to 6 holes for pace of play to become acceptable.
The 2nd hole par 3 seem to bog the pace of play down

For a normal rate of about $75, we got a rude starter, unbelievably slow play (no marshall), no beverage cart until the 17th hole, and a DJ with his Hummer parked next to the 10th and 12th teeboxes with music blasting across the course for our final 11 holes which took nearly 3 hours. The carts have GPS that will stop the cart if you enter "restricted" areas which apparently include cart paths and coming within 20 yatds of the No Carts Sign.
This used to be my favorite place to play, but with the outrageous greens fees (they still call themselves a championship course) and slow play, no one in my foursome have plans to return.

There were no carts ready for our 3pm tee time, we had to wait for a group to return from their round and grab one that had little juice left.

The greens were in not in great shape. For the price of the course, I'd expect better conditions.

Course was fine and was very pleasing to the eye. Good combination of holes that required precision shots with holes that were wide open. A lot of the bunkers though were full of weeds and crab grass. The free relief for ground under repair was great but definitely took away from the overall aesthetic of the course.

Several bunkers under repair, greens bumpy and number 4 has a ground hornet infestation making it rather uncomfortable and borderline dangerous to putt on. For full price rounds, should be better kept as it was in the past. Pace was ok, starter gave preference to members to play through which was an interesting touch.