Forest Park Golf Course

I hate to bash a local goat ranch, but it wouldn’t take much to make this a better place to play. Especially because it has a fun layout.

Here are some suggestions…

Use a mower. Everything is overgrown, greens, rough, tee boxes, etc. maybe roll them too..? Maybe care?

Use a Blower. There is an obscene amount of debris on these greens. Hard to believe there isn’t one staff member who might know how to use a leaf blower…
Don’t randomly send people out whenever. It’s as simple as telling a group to wait until the first group gets off the green to tee up. Pretty common practice.

Major work was done last year to the tee boxes. Also irrigation work was done for the fairways, which showed with some nice grass in the fairways and roughs.

If you’re playing this course pls replace your divots and ball marks. Let’s show our appreciation for their efforts. Great course for a municipal course in NYC.

Tee boxes are all ready for 2024. lush green fairways and greens were rolling smooth. Great course and challenge with the trees and tight chutes off the tee.

This course attracts a lot of beginner golfers who are slow and don’t understand course etiquette or golf cart etiquette. Since the course management can’t be bothered to send out one of their many cranky old men on a cart to be a Marshall pace of play is glacial and tips for the beginners to understand where to park their carts never happens. And gee whiz is it too hard to color coordinate the flag sticks red white blue so we can figure out where the hole locations are like every other normal course. Come on FPGC be better. Do better.

I love this golf course, I would be even thrilled to play more often if it has many amenities such as drive thru food and drink vendor to various golf holes. The other main thing is a toilet at midway to the play, say around 10 holes.

Fastest round ever played here. Course was in great shape for early in the year.

The idea of the course great. But some notice of areas under repair would be nice. Greens were jacked up. Pace of play was extremely slow. On the best day of the course corrected a hard 3.5. Cant see 4 at all which was what drew me to book the course. Thanks for the experience. But I will not be back.

Short track (6,053) from the tips but really tiny greens with narrow fairways.

The greens were a bit quirky with defensive mounding on the front side for at least 2 greens. Other greens had two tiers but the breaks were not too severe.

There were also at least two holes where bank shots are possible, one on a dogleg right Par 4 that had a strategic mogul on the left side that I was able to land my ball and bounce right towards the hole.

The other hole was a short dogleg left Par 4 that had a back stop behind the hole.

Green conditions on at least 2 greens were a bit on the severe side - cracking over a 2 feet area in several spots as well as multiple unrepaired pitchmarks.

Tee boxes conditions were below average with more than a couple having a bare surface devoid of grass. However, impeccable improvements may be on the way with also more than a couple of the tee boxes cordoned off and covered as under repair.

The fairways were a bit narrow for the first 100 yards on more than a couple of Par 4 holes. The width was probably around 30 yards wide.

Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the track with a really good score of 84 anchored by 10 one-putts that was also helped by the tiny greens.

Pace of play was good at 4 hours and 20 minutes due to few golfers who knew that the course was open. Snow cover melted the day before after 10 days of snow cover due to two successive snow storms a week before that dropped 5” and 3” in a 4 days period. Most courses on Long Island were still closed due to snow cover.

Other notes:
[1] No driving range
[2] Practice green is beside tee box # 1
[3] Restroom is located outside the clubhouse on the left side; Well-maintained/clean with hot water
[4] No hot snacks available

Would definitely recommend this course. The conditions are good, staff is friendly, and the value for the price is great. Parking can be an issue if extremely busy but they do have a parking lot. The pace of play in the morning is great.

Fantastic place to play golf and enjoy your time playing golf with your friends.