the bay club

always in good to great shape we played the West course on Sunday and had a great time. Biggeest draw are the people who work there , from the Bag drop guys to the Pro shop personnel to the grill people. Always a smile and a sincere hello - always delightful and the price is right. ( 9 and 18 on the West are two of my favorite holes anywhere). We play twice a year in Berlin and have patronized this course from the very beginning of our trips (2007). Hadn't played for a number of years until Sunday and felt like we very 'coming home'. Won't wait long to revisit again.

Myself along with 11 others played this course in late September / They charged $75 for this terrible course. The greens needed more care and the fairways were covered with "crab grass" It took so long to play and the pace was very slow. I suggest you spend another $10 to $20 more and play a course like Bear Trap Dunes It is light night and day.. We will never play there again. They are going to lose our busines

Not the best course in the area but not the worst or the most expensive either. Fair value for the price, but nothing that you would put on a must play list. Two courses either of which are a great, warm up before tackling some of the big name area courses. No forced carries but plenty of chances to loose a ball or two on errant drives. Cart paths under construction on east course make for a rough uncomfortable ride and the " cart path only" rule a bit of a joke. Greens on the west are small and a few on the east have input table areas. All said the course will remain in the rotation and a good fall back when other course are packed and at premium prices

Good layout, not ocean golf by any stretch. Plenty of tree lined fairways, rough was VERY punitive, Greens rolled true. Fairways cut low and in good shape. Nice 36 hole facility, not too expensive either.

Greens are small, rock hard, and have missing pieces of turf. Sand traps feel like cement. Too many bare spots, rough is not manicured. Tee boxe's not level. Cart paths have many broken pieces. Putting green shares the same area for the 18th hole. Just a poor course. Desheveled. I could not wait to get out of there. Not going there again.

Both courses ued to be pretty good and were value priced. Over the summer both 18-hole courses have had to close at least one green due to disease/fungus. Quality has certainly dropped.

We played 3 different courses the first week of October 2012, Eagles Landing, Man O' War and Bay Club West. E.L. & M.O.W were both fabulous. Bay Club West was by far the worst of the three, not even in the same category. First of all, there were no GPS's on the golf carts at The Bay Club. Both E.L. & M.O.W. had GPS's. Bay Club had no carts available, we had to wait until they were returned by other golfers. Some of the greens were in atrocious condition...they were burnt out, uneven, bare in many spots. One green wasn't even puttable. When we finished our round, we told one of the guys handling the bags that this was by far the worse of the three courses we played, he commented that they had a rough summer with many days hitting 100 degrees. The thing is, so did the other two courses and their greens were in great condition. They need to spend more time working on the course and less time running to your car to retrieve your golf bag and wiping off your clubs. There must have been 4 or 5 guys standing around and none working on the course.

Actually, this is from a trip my father and I took back in Nov.2011. This was the first of 3 courses on our itinerary, the other 2 were Bear Trap Dunes and The Peninsula, a private course we were able to play. About Bay Club East: We've played it a couple other times and in the fall the zoysia is khaki colored,plus the way it's laid out, each hole is there in front of you,and there are no parallel fairways; as with some courses, there might be long drives between holes. Not here. We played at our own pace and it was a very enjoyable experience.

A tale of two rounds…I played the East on Friday and West on Saturday and my experiences were night and day. The East course is an azoysia lined paradise. The course was well maintained, properly marked and thoroughly enjoyable. The pace of play was great and my friends and I enjoyed a great round. Lunch was good- not great, and the clubhouse staff friendly and fun. The bagboys were kind enough to store our bags overnight and just made us feel like members even though we were just visiting. Saturday morning was not as accommodating. We were rushed out to the West course and teed it up only to get caught up in some of the slowest pace of play in a long time. No rangers, no signs, nothing to encourage an enjoyable round. Add to that a clubhouse staffer to come out asking if we had brought any beer onto the course. I understand rules are rules, but in 25 years of playing golf, I have NEVER had beer confiscated (let alone interrogated) on a course. Had we been littering or being boisterous on the course, I could understand, but we weren’t. When I asked the clubhouse staffer if there was anything they could do about the pace of play (3.25 hours to play the front) they replied “I’ll look into it” and returned to the clubhouse. The west course is not an azoysia track and was not as well maintained. The course description touts “two distinctly different golf experiences”, and they are right- a good one and a bad one. I’ll come back to play the East course anytime. I’ll have lunch off site, play my round and head out to have my dinner offsite.