Wild Turkey Golf Club

The course is very nice but lacks flow. There are several great holes but the course seems to be an after though instead of a well designed course. It plays as 2 thrown together courses as you drive flong distance between holes.
I enjoy the other courses in the area for less $$.

I played Wild Turkey for the first time today and it was fantastic. Great staff, course layout is challenging but fair. Each hole was interesting and we all really enjoyed it. I will be back for sure in the near future.

Every time I visit Crystal Springs it is busy. Weekends with multiple weddings, huge golf outings, this weekend the beer fest. Restaurants are packed and rooms are pricey over $350 per night.
So why are bunkers filled with rocks?? Why are greens not cut and rolled?? The courses are great but to pay the prices they want I would expect sand in the bunkers, level tee boxes and greens a little less like carpet please.

I’ve played the course many times before and enjoyed it thoroughly. Unfortunately, they had airated and OVER(hint hint) sanded the greens. I say this with zero exaggeration, they were about 70%-80% unputtable. There was up to a 1/2” of sand in some spots. Very inconsistently done to the point where the green looked yellow in some places and green in others. Mostly yellow around the holes which added to the disappointment. (Hint hint) teach your greens crew better practices. Oh, and $70 is enough of a discount for those conditions.
Moral: normally a great course, but definitly call ahead to find out if they airated and sanded.

Wild Turkey is a beautiful course and it is right at the Crystal Springs resort if you decided to get a "Stay & Play" package. The resort is great so I do recommend staying at Crystal Springs.
The biggest issue with the Wild Turkey course is the speed of the greens, which are extremely fast and caused very good golfers in my group to three-putt more holes than they do normally. At a resort course you get all levels of golfers and fast greens are a pace of play nightmare.The greens were interesting enough without adding the degree of difficulty of super fast greens.
One thing women golfers will want to be aware of is that some holes are really too long for the par value. For example, Hole 5 is a 378 yard Par 4 (in comparison, BallyOwen, #1 course in NJ and part of the Crystal Springs family of courses) hole #10 is a 386 year Par 5 (so only 6 yards longer and a fair PAR value at 386, which is fair).
If you can only play one course in the Crystal Springs area, play BallyOwen.

This course could be a gem but the long reported bunker issues continue. Some traps don’t have enough sand to hit an explosion shot. Many have tiny rocks. The pot bunker in front of the 18th green has significant bed lining protruding through the minimal, rocky sand. Wrist injury waiting to happen...

Great staff and otherwise great course, it doesn’t make sense they let the bunkers get so bad.

Turkey is a great layout, in very good condition. But this round took 5 hours. Too slow.

I have played Wild Turkey many times. We played from the white tees, about 5900 yards. White tees are great for high handicappers like me and the blue tees are challenging for better golfers. Course is very fair with some wide fairways. Most holes have greenside bunkers but if you are accurate, you can avoid the sand. Greens were smooth and fast but not extremely fast. Downhill putts were tricky.

Arrated greens are to be expected but every sand trap( there are plenty) was a mud trap. Great track but for $120 the bunkers should have sand

Wild Turkey is a hidden gem. It doesn't get the accolades of Ballyowen, but it should. Every hole is interesting, no gimmicks. The rangers kept up the pace of play, greens were good (a litttle slow due to rain), the fairways could be cut shorter. I would give this an 8 of 10 for a solid, fun public course in a beautiful setting.

I was there on the weekend with my family. Had great time.

I left after finishing the front 9 because the pace of play was so slow. I'd be standing on the tee box for 10-15 minutes while the group in front of me watched from the fairway the group in front of them on the green. It was not enjoyable. I went to the pro shop and received a credit but I'm honestly relectant to go back. It's not a convenient drive and I don't want to waste my day again.

I really don't like this course listed below are only a few reasons why.

A- Toooo expensive. The tee times alone are $110 on a Saturday, but as if that isn't enough they charge you a $3 "resort" fee, which you have no choice but to pay. A beer is $6 or more. A bottle of water is $3. When you pay over $100 for a tee time you should be taken care of, not taken advantage of.

B-play is almost always slow bc the walk from the cart to many tee boxes and many greens is very far.

C- the course meanders its way through an enormous development. It's doesn't feel like one course, it's like you are playing 4 or 5 different courses. Also, the cart ride from 3 to 4, 9 to 10, 11 to 12 and 17 to 18 is well 400 yards. It's annoying, time consuming and NOT indicative of a course that charges $100 + for a tee time

D- the staff is unfriendly, I was treated like a tourist that is never going to play there again. I would highly recommend skipping this course unless you like over paying for mediocre golf and amenities.

I played this course at an MGA "Play-Day" event. The course was in a great shape. I seldom play greens as fast as these (most courses on Long Island don't roll them this tight), so putting was a challenge, but that's a good thing not a bad thing. I found the course layout perfect. I normally carry a driver 270-280 so there was a lot of use with the driver off the tee, but I was also able to use 3W on a few holes and even something less on others. It's long, but some holes make you think about the approach. I played from the blue tees.

My only grip would be the bunkers. It seemed as though there were different types of sand used in the bunkers and some bunkers needed to be filled badly. Also, perhaps better signage for carts as there are long distances between holes. We got a little lost trying to find the 16th tee, a par 3. Other than that I found the course to be fantastic and look forward to perhaps staying at one of the resorts in the future.

conditions were way off previous years standards. greens shaggy and way too slow. downhill putts stop like you were putting on velcro. sand traps were muddy, rocky, no sand. very disappointed given past good experiences especially.

golf course are just beautiful
Very good condition and good facilities

They charged $3.00 more than the quoted price as a resort fee. I am wondering if such information can be indicated at the time of reservation.

It's a hike but a good track