Royal American Links Golf Club

Craters on the greens, fairways just cracked dirt in a lot of areas. Carts are so old and slow. Not worth the money I paid.

Layout is great, some very challenging holes. But the track itself is still just not cared for. Was hoping the rain and cooler weather would make a difference, but it sadly didn’t. Tee boxes are wrecked, fairways and rough both need a mow, greens have many many large dead spots, bunkers still don’t have sand and are just hard clay pits

This was the first time I played this course and always heard good things about it. Someone lied!!! Which is too bad because I feel the course was challenging.. And I’m not referring to how torn up all the greens were which made putting a real adventure… I will say the staff was very friendly.. Not gonna rush I to rush back to this course

Although it has been a long time since I have played this course, this is still a great course to play. I will say that there are a number of places on the course that will need some major attention, as this drought passes and the Ohio weather changes. I look forward to seeing this after the repairs and before the heat and sun get back to work.

Fairways and greens are cracking from how dry they are. Greens were just aerated and it’s like they drove a four wheeler across the greens since they are so torn up. Granted we are in a drought, but you’d think they would at least water. Tee boxes are worse than grass in a random field. Can tell this place gets a lot of play and they are happy to take your money but should better utilize it to better maintain the course. We were first tee time and they were certainly not ready for us. We offered to come back at the turn to pay since their system wasn’t operating. Gentleman in the pro shop had less personality than my golf ball. Girl at the turn was quite nice and accommodating which was probably the only plus of the day.

My advice to anyone looking to play here…go somewhere else with your $65…you’ll be better off!

Normally a great track, played in early summer and it was great. Understand the drought has been tough and expect the fairway to be dry but the greens were aerated 10 days prior to our round and the holes were still huge, most greens were unplayable some had large cracks in them. I hope they can recover next season. I don't see how they still charge full rates.

What a terrible excuse for a golf course. What was once a beautiful course has been discarded into nothing but dead patches of grass.

Practice putting green is gone.

All tee boxes are barren. The overall ownership of this course as well as Clover Valley should be embarrassed

I hope they are closing this course. Maybe they sold it. The grass is all gone. They should just close the building, get rid of all staff, and let people go walk and play for free if they want to. Ever since they sold to Kemper sports, four of the six courses look like dead fields. Worse courses I’ve ever seen. I’m a member. Wish I’d known then they would let these courses become cow pastures. I’d like to know what their plans are for the course. Really bad place.

I grabbed the Hot Deal for this course that I had heard mixed things about. I will not be back anytime soon. The course was in awful shape, partly a result of the drought, but obviously through neglect as well. Play was backed up from the get go. The course design seems like a good one, challenging with narrow tree-lined fairways and plenty of water. The sand traps were simply unplayable — not maintained. People working here are friendly and helpful nonetheless. Overall, just not a good value.

This is the worst condition of a course I have played in my life. The greens had disease run thru them in the spring, areas all over the course dug up, fringes full of crab grass, sand traps unplayable. They should post at the pro shop and online that they had major issues and how bad of shape the greens are in and course in general and people may be more forgiving and understanding. I will never donate my money here again. For $55 a round this is embarrassing the course is even still trying to charge this much. Such a shame as it could be a fun course.

I would be embarrassed had I brought clients here.

Very nice course. Loved the layout. Course was in
very poor condition, I’m sure due to the drought and the fact that their sprinkler system was down. Hopefully next year the course will be in better condition

Worse conditions of a golf course that I've ever seen. Played it a few years ago and it was amazing

Very poor course conditions. They said their sprinkler system has been broke for several weeks, but there has been reviews dating back several months saying the course is in bad condition. I don’t know what’s going on but lying about it doesn’t help. The greens were almost unplayable.

I’ve played this course before so I knew it’s usually in good shape, taken care of. But man this was embarrassing to see. Extremely let go, some of the worst greens I’ve seen in Columbus. As bad as these greens are, is even worse considering it’s a New Era Course and all 6 are supposed to be super nice but all over priced. Price was fair for round we played but my god is that course thirsty. Gigantic dead spots around the greens, they’re just rock hard as well. Tee boxes seem neglected. Overall, very disappointed from what I know the course used to be.

Course used to be a top notch public course I hadn’t played in years but now fairways and greens conditions were terrible .
Sad!

Range and range balls are destroyed. Tee boxes are almost untouched. The fairways and dried and cracked in most places. The bunkers are closer to gravel than sand. The greens are completely spotty and in awful shape. Save your money or spend 10-20 more and play somewhere nicer. Not worth whatever they charge.