Shale Creek Golf Club

Course layout, conditions, staff and amenities are all fantastic. Pace of play and complete lack of awareness from the staff to enforce it was rather disappointing. My son and I left after 14 holes after tolerating the slow play for 4.5 hours. We guesstimated based in our time in the course it would have taken us at least another 1.5 to 2 hours to finish our round. That was in a Friday (non prime time slot). I realize golf courses these days want all the play they can get and will try their best to not upset their patrons. However, being out there for nearly 5 hours and not seeing a single course ranger to enforce “some” measure of pace of play was rather disappointing. I enjoy golf, but a 6 hour round is a bit excessive. I noticed many of the golfers out on the course were locals based on their custom golf carts etc. which leads me to believe this level of slow play is probably common. Rest assured regardless of how much I loved the course and reasonable price I will not go back nor would I recommend it to any of my many golf friends. I realize I’m perhaps being a bit unfair to Shale Creek given slow play seems to be a golf problem in general. That said, public courses who expect significant play and recurring customers really need to take pace of play into consideration and implement changes to help improve it.

I always enjoy playing this course. There are some holes you can go for and other holes you have to play smart. A good challenging course.

Paid $60 to play a Sunday afternoon round. Course layout is not bad and greens were challenging. Fun course to play outside of the greens condition. Tons of pitch marks and looked like a kindergarten class did a dance recital on the greens. Zero chance of making putts as nothing rolled correctly or pure. With all the rain we have received those greens should have been awesome like everywhere else I play. Sad cause the course is nice and challenging. Will not play here again

We play this course a couple of times per year. Appreciated the free range balls. The course is a challenging layout with enough water and traps to get your attention. Our only complaint was the greens. They were overly firm and didn’t hold at all. We’d definitely would go back, but would like to see the greens a little more receptive.

Great course! You will use almost every club in your bag. Staying in the fairway is numero uno. Staff is great. Will be back again and again.

I played this course as part of a golf trip to/around the Cleveland area in late May 2023. This course was included on our itinerary based on its listing as a Top Course by Golf Advisor.

PACE: It was a busy Saturday, but with 10-minute tees the course moved just fine. It did bunch up a bit towards the end, but we still came in at 4 hours.

CONDITIONS: Everything was good. Played with a 2some who played here before and said the course needed a big drink of water. I would agree. There were brown and burnout spots all over. The tees and green were okay. The pace of the greens was fair. The bunkers had a lot of pebbles in them.

STAFF: Pro shop and starter were very helpful.

VALUE: The greens fee seemed good for a Saturday afternoon.

LAYOUT: Played the Blue tees (6,300). This is a sub-division course that winds thru a housing community. The front 9 has longer holes with wider fairways and areas to miss. For the back 9, holes #10 thru #14 pack a lot of golf into a smaller area of land. It's fun, but keep your head on a swivel as several errant shots came close to us. Good variety of holes, and I used every club in my bag. Given the distance between some of the holes, I would not recommend walking this course (#2 to #3 is over a quarter-mile).

Throw in the fact that it was absolutely perfect weather with just enough wind to challenge you, Shale Creek never disappoints. Two thumbs up. 👍 👍

I've played most of the public access courses over the years and created my own personal 'rota' of the favorites. Shale Creek owns a top slot among the most preferred venues. It's all right in front of you. It's fun and more than fair. Do your part, that would be hit the golf ball, and you'll likely have a scorecard you can proudly take home and show to Mom. Not tricky or quirk some, Shale is very straight-forward. It's putting surfaces, (whenever I've played, they've been in great shape.) along with a handful of water hazards provide the greatest challenge to scoring. Keep it dry, roll it true, and you'll be well positioned to have a very good golf experience at Shale Creek.

THERE WAS NO SIPULATION THAT THE CARD WAS ONLY MON-THURS WHEN PURCHASED.