Glenn V.
Yelp
Over the years I have been at a good number of events at Garden City Country Club and I can only speak in the most flattering terms as it related to the food service and the staffers that shuffle meals and the management that runs the floor.
Professionals to the highest degree in their industry.
The golf course
Is it just me or does an express Long Island Rail Road train, thundering down the tracks whilst preparing for your first tee shot of the day seem a touch distracting? Its a short and boorish golf hole anyway, but the par 3 second hole, assuming a back flag placement is a really good hole but your nerves will be frazzled if the last train did not disrupt your game, as you may just catch the sounds and vibrations on the next one. Its just odd that a course built in the early turn of the century, 1916 to be specific and designed by Walter Travis would be within such a close proximity to a rail road, or more specifically the rail road runs right through it.
Not much in the way of elevation change to the course, just some deep rough and smallish greens. This bodes well for some of the members, a few which I have played with, to NOT add more challenges to the course as this would be a disaster in terms of the time to complete a round. This is a social club as opposed to Garden City Men's Club which is a Golf first club, but you would need to know the game to understand that concept. (Not you, the other guy. The one with the vanity golf license plate that gives himself 4-6 footers all day and still cant break 100 playing from the white tees)
Playing 6,578 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70, you need a caddie to help read the greens as the breaks are subtle and a downhill put can land you off the green. Not much trouble can be had at Garden City CC, so the player should not have many lost balls or out of bounds penalties The course rating is 72.8 and it has a slope rating of 130.
