Pine Knot Golf & Country Club

One of my favorite courses in the area. Always in great shape, friendly staff and reasonably priced. Not overly long but has a layout suitable for all levels of golfers requiring a wide variety of different shots. There's also a driving range and putting green available for practice before your round. Definitely recommend this course and always look forward to playing there.

Course: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Maintenance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carts: ⭐️ Price: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Payment: ⭐️ Food: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Halfway Hut: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Service: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Parking: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Good: Course was in great condition this past weekend. Bunkers were raked (this sand is extremely heavy when damp), greens had very minimal burns or non-repaired divots, fairways and rough were well manicured. Overall the course was near perfect. The food and amenities are great, hard to beat the standard they set at most other public courses. Bad: the payment system is terrible. You have to reserve all 4 players spots with one credit card (no big deal, most courses do this) - problem is they actually charge that card for all 4 players so now you have to chase your friends down for cash or e-transfer. Sorry PK I’m not a business, that responsibility doesn’t fall on your customers. You should be holding the card number until players arrive and then charge each individual player like every single other course does. The carts, oh the carts, they are HORRENDOUS to deal with. Just walk this course, it’s basically flat so it’s an easy walk. But back to the carts, the over-policing at this course is unbearable. The course is very open but for some reason 95% of your round your speed is GPS location limited in these carts. I was even limited driving straight up a fairway twice over the weekend and the GPS screen was telling me to return to the non-existent cart path. You’re within 30 yards of a bunker? Speed limited to 2kph. Close to the green? 2kph. Crossing a bridge, 10 yards from the fescue, water, hazards? Park it and put it in reverse because you’re not going anywhere. Even driving down car paths it limits your speed. It’s unbearable in my brutally honest opinion. They also preach to no end about keeping pace of play, maybe if you didn’t limit speed in areas that’s not necessary then your pace would keep up better? I get it, you’re trying to protect your course but come on it’s way too over the top. I’ve played thousands of golf rounds all over Ontario and further and never have I experienced this. Around the greens is about the only place this would even be necessary.