Detailed description of Kingswood Golf Club
Kingswood Golf Club is a Public, 18 hole golf course located in Hudson Falls , New York, nestled between the New York State Adirondack Mountains and the Vermont Green Mountains.
Kingswood Golf Club first opened for play in 1992. The course was designed by Michael Woodbury.
Par for the course is 71. From the back tees the course plays to 6,571 yards. From the foward tees the course plays to 5,187 yards. The longest hole on the course is # 14, a par-5 that plays to 542 yards. The shortest hole on the course is # 11, a par-3 that plays to 143 yards from the back tees.
Watch out for # 9, a 417 yard par-4 challenge and the #1 handicap hole on the course. The easiest hole at Kingswood Golf Club is # 11, the 143 yard par-3.
$41 (cart not included), played on Tuesday, August 2008 at 4pm
The course was in excellent shape, nice fairways, rough was punishing where it should be. Fair amount of hazards.
While the course is surrounded by farmland, the area is beautiful, and the course displayed numerous elevation changes, lending to the overall difficulty. No houses on the course, which is a plus for me.
The only negative I could note was that the greens, while well maintained, had some issues with ball marks. More of a problem with fellow golfers than course quality, but it would suggest that some ball mark repair guidelines should be prominently displayed in the clubhouse (I did not see any).
$56 (cart included), played on Saturday, August 2008 at 10am
If you enjoy seven hour rounds of golf with drunk and dis-orderly players on the course taking 30 plus shots a hole, and a staff of rangers who watch it going on and fail to address it, well brother this is your golf course.
Kingswood Golf Club is not my cup of tea. And it is a shame, becauseit is a nice track. But, it is not one that I and the members of my foursome and anyone I can tell about it will hopefully never ever play again! We took a 30 minute lunch break and still waited with two other foursomes for twenty minutes on the 11th tee.
Management of the Kingswood would be a real good start if they ever expect to be a respected golf facility. Management needs to take control. Kingswood was an example of Golfers gone wild and slowwwwww.
(cart included), played on Thursday, July 2008 at 8am
Good course, good time and a good day
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$21 (cart not included), played on Friday, April 2009 at 4pm
Overall, a nice course with a sweet layout and plenty of elevation changes. This place was nothing more than a rock-hard cow pasture when it first opened, and the softness of the course seems to get better every year.
Biggest downer is pace of play and accessibility. Way too crowded and extremely slow play most of the season. If you are not into league play, forget about walking on after work.
Understaffing and/or indifferent staffing does not help the overall situation. I can not tell you how many times I have seen overflowing trash receptacles and ambivalent course rangers here at Kingswood. Management just seems to lack the vision or initiative to overcome glaring shortcomings.
I live less than a mile from this course and play elsewhere most of the time for the above reasons. Too bad, really. The course has the potential to be a fine little jewel in this high-quality golf mecca of Upstate NY.