Lyndebrook Golf Course Review

Booked a tee time late October and I made it a family event. My children, in their 20s, and I were there with their partners (5). We arrived and had booked 2 tee times (2 and 3 golfers) once there the owner had asked if we good let two golfers ahead of us and we could go as a group of 5, no one else behind. Some hadn't golfed before so taking our time and showing newbies how to and tips.
The owner came to us on the final tee and asked us to leave it was 5pm they closed at 630. I asked why and her answer was we can't be out there till 630 to my reply, we are on the last tee and you close at 630. Needless to say she closed at 500 pm kicking us off the course without playing the last hole.
If your open to 630 and want to leave have someone cover you. Poor business practice.
The owner can be very nasty and for that my family of golfers will not be back.
Unfortunate tho as the other employees that work there's have always been pleasant.
Been going here for 2 decades, not anymore.

My your greens rot and your holes fill up with muck...........

Its a nice nine but when you pay for 18 then at 9 holes after you order more beer and food ate told you didint pay for 18 no way never coming back

Had the most fun snowshoeing here! loop was perfect length for a quick jaunt, some nice scenery and then a great warm-up at the campfire, with speciality hot chocolates and coffee. We were in great shape to do the trail again, the opposite way. :). So nice to be out of the house, doing something different and feeling so welcomed by the wonderful hospitality.

Great 9 hole for a very reasonable price. We go here all the time as the course is kept very clean.

Well maintained. Perfect course to practice short game.

Great course to practice your short game. Some small water challenges on a few of the holes. A nice fast paced 9-hole. Finished in 1.5h with a few hold ups.

Love this place. Even though it's a short 9 it's a great place to go to work on your short game or as a beginner. Staff are amazing I always have a great day when I go. (8 times atleast)

Being able to take a cart after 6 on a really hot day would be good but it's an easy course to walk. Staff are super friendly and helpful.

Great value, difficult course even for an executive track. Highly recommend for beginners or time constrained novices.

This is an excellent course to try your irons shots. The two par 4 holes give you a little more challenge.

Short course but great place to have a quick game of golf

Was under the impression this was a beginner friendly course. I was wrong.

There were 2 beginners in our group of 4. We were trying to keep pace with the group in front by playing best ball, but ultimately were about a hole and a half behind. We were asked twice to speed up our play, and the second time were asked to skip the 7th hole to make up time. We did this and found the group in front of us just teeing off on 8 when we were made to believe we were half an hour behind schedule.

It was the first time on an actual course for one beginner and it may be their last.

Great little course. Good shape. Fair price. Best small course in Durham.

short course but well maintained and friendly staff. give it a go

Its a great short 9 course. Pretty and easy to walk. Patio at the clubhouse is covered looks over the 1st and 9th hole.

Course in good shape. There are 2 easy par fours to go with the par 3's

Very nice course to golf with my wife. The whole course is very well taken cared of! Short course, but can be more challenging to play from blue tee's.

If you're looking to get started with golf, steer clear from this course.
This was my very first time golfing and my friends invited me this course as what was supposed to be a good place to begin.

Our group of 4 chose a mid-afternoon tee time on a weekday to hopefully avoid too much of a rush.

As we went to Hole 2, we were told we were taking too long so we started playing "best ball".

At Hole 3, we allowed the pair of players behind us to go ahead and waited. As they finished up, we were told by an employee to keep up with pair. How do they expect 4 players to keep up with 2?

Approaching Hole 7, we were told by another employee we had been on the course for nearly 2 hours and needed to skip to Hole 8. Looking at the time, we had been there for just under 1.5 hours.

As we skipped to Hole 8, we ended up waiting for the pair from earlier to take their shots (see picture). In the time spent waiting, we would've been able to play Hole 7.

From Hole 3 onwards, the trio behind us appeared to be playing at about the same pace we were so we did not see justification in the rush.

It seemed the employees tried harder to hurry our group along than they did in asking a family that was using the golf course as a shortcut for their stroll to leave.

If you're looking to spend your time powerwalking rather than golfing, by all means, choose this course. I have lost all motivation to return to this course and possibly golf.

All in all, my experience here was truly subpar.

A beautiful course yet not at all beginner friendly.
My friend was learning how to golf and we were rushed by staff the entire game, effectively ruining his golfing experience. We did all that we could to rush our game but to no avail, playing from best ball each hole. We allowed the group behind us to go ahead only to be told by staff not to do this again. After playing for an hour and a half, we were told that we had been playing for over 2 hours and must skip a hole. This caused us to move to the next hole and learn that there was already a wait ahead of us! We waited for the next group to shoot. The group behind were also moving at a seemingly similar pace to us. We were also given rental clubs with no putter, causing us to run back to the clubhouse. It is a great shame to have such a fun and well-shaded course to be ruined by a bad experience.
I have been playing here since I was a child, and after more than a decade, it honestly saddens me to say that I will no longer recommend this course for beginners.

Great place to learn or enjoy a nice comfortable game. With some wild turkeys for extra fun!

Very nice 9 hole course. Wild Turkey's on the 8th hole made for an interesting delay in teeing off.

Good course. Not welcoming for beginners.

Came here with a group of four to play. Two of us are beginners, including one who was playing for the first time.

Multiple times, we were rushed and told to keep up with a group of two who were a much higher skill level. By hole 2, we were playing from the best ball, to try to keep things moving as best as we could.

At hole 6, we were told we'd been golfing for two hours, when it had only been an hour and a half. We were told to skip the next hole because the line was backing up, even though the golfers behind us hadn't yet finished hole 5.

We skipped hole 7, and ended up waiting on the group in front of us at hole 8 for about 10 minutes, because they were just teeing off. We could have done hole 7.

Overall, it was a stressful experience, being told multiple times to hurry up. It was a terrible environment to try and improve our golf game. Our first-time golfer is in no spirits to golf again.

Lyndebrook is a great place to practice your irons or have fun playing as a family. For all the play it gets, it s always in great condition

Sweet group runs a small 9 hole course... organizers are lively. Real golfers told me it is a really good oar 3 course for a relaxing day.

Great little 9 hole
Stunning holes (6 holes anyways)
Fabulous work out for your irons.
Plus they now have carts although i used to enjoy walking this course

Great for a swing, green fees, are very reasonable, and not that it matters to the golfing experience, but it's a 2-minute drive for me.

My son and I started playing at Lyndebrook last year. It's a very well maintained course. We enjoy playing it. You get a decent work out walking the course. Watch out for the pond on the 8th hole. It eats golf balls.

Went snowshoeing with our family of four. Lots of space, but the trails were not really well marked - but it was easy to find your way around despite the lack of signage. Rental of the snowshoes was straightforward and they had two campfires going at the start/end of the trails with seating etc. Overall a pleasant 2 hour excursion very close to town. Bonus is watching the disc golfers play in the snow as you walk along. Kids enjoyed it also. Bring your mask if you want to sit by the fire.

Beautiful 9-hole course. Amazing value, only $20 green fee. Would definitely go again.

A nice executive course that's in good shape with friendly staff

Perfect course for couples/ and new golfers !!

Green's were fabulous!! The scenery & layout are very nice, you woukd never know you are near the city.

All the par 3s are challenging and nice change to add two par 4s

Nice executive golf club. Views are spectacular and the course is in great shape

Great short 9 holes. Don't need your woods, mostly par 3 with a couple 4's. Very well maintained quite picturesque.

Tricky 9-hole golf course, and the staff are terrific.

Fun little course that is well maintained. Good value for the money. Looking forward to maybe finally getting a birdie next season

Fantastic 9 hole well groomed course with excellent patio for food and drinks.
We be back again.
Friendly and clean.

The course is not well maintained at all. There are tire tracks through the middle of the fairways from carts and/or landscaping equipment and the fairways also range from being as hard as a rock to a mushy as a bog (in some cases even being bog-like). Furthermore, the food is overpriced even for a golf course, takes an eternity to prepare, and to top it off the quality is below average.

Additionally, the manager enjoys accusing patrons of playing extra rounds and , to use her own words, accosts those who she believes to have in some way played extra holes. My experience with her involved a long and angry conversation that totally ruined what had been a great day of golf with my friends. She began by assuming that she had spoken to me and my friends before about stealing holes or re-playing 4 through 6. After that we explained that our long round time was due to waiting for food and bad play at the start of the season she continued to harass and belittle us about our alleged thievery without listening to our explanation. This manager had the worst customer service skills I've ever encountered and her conduct has ensured that I will never again visit her course.