Hillandale Golf Course

I can’t say more positive things about hillandale. Hillandale is home. This is a great place for many reasons. The staff is amazing. Karl, Justin, Joe, Fran, Tommy, Barry. They are all awesome, always professional and willing to help. The pro shop is a great place to hang out, with an extensive collection of things to buy and a snack shack that makes good food, couches to hang out and watch golf channel or to sit and have a beer, free wifi! Driving range and putting green. This place has it all and it feels like home. No need to worry about people being snooty, people here are friendly.
The course itself is pretty good. Well maintained and constantly changing things to keep it interesting. Whether you’re playing 18 holes or coming to practice or to even just hang out and maybe make a few purchases, it’s always a good time because the staff and facilities are amazing.

I don’t play golf but stopped by just to look and use the restroom. The staff was unbelievabley awesome very nice friendly and helpful. The place was busy with golfers too. From what I’ve seen it seems a great place to play a round or two of golf. Everything was in order and very neat. The restroom was clean and well stocked. They even have a place to grab something to eat. This place makes me want to play a round of golf. Stop by sometime if you’re in town or live close by I know you will be happy with this course.

Great casual course with a driving range.

My favorite place to golf, period.
The staff is friendly, wonderful and professional. Fran, in particular, is the reason I joined the Women’s League and have a great time on Wednesday nights. It’s easy to get a tee time, it’s inexpensive to play, the course is in fantastic shape and it’s got that «Durham» feel.
The pro shop is stocked with anything you could possibly need as a beginner or pro.
The bottom line: they make you feel like a regular the first time you walk in the door. Give it a go!

What a great course! Not only is this an awesome course to play but these guys also provide an awesome community service that seems largely unknown. They have a club called the Hillandale HEARTS (Hillandale Embraces A Really Tough Situation) for children who are undergoing treatment at Duke for Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant. The kids are able to come out to the course and ride the golf carts whenever they want as well as play the course with their very own set of size appropriate clubs that they get to keep! all for free! This place is an asset to the community!

We made a tee time for 2 for 9 holes. They matched us up with another couple that plays there all that time which was great since we were in town (Raleigh) visiting. The course was well maintained; had water hazards; and was fun to play. It was a great price for the value. I would recommend to others visiting or in town. It does have a driving range as well but didn’t use it.

A true Durham experience, let me start it that way. Another way I could do this is to paint a picture for you. Toward the back nine holes, part of the Hillandale Golf Course runs along a street. And on this street you have folks with spinners, rims, wheels, loud cars, thumping music with flashy colors. Needless to say there is an interesting dichotomy between the mostly white, preppy golfers on the course, and the mostly African American drivers and bystanders on the drag watching cars. My buddies and I considered driving our dinky little cart down the strip, but we couldn’t do it. We DID play VERY carefully on one of the holes, as children scampered onto the fairway. I must say that all of the peacock strutting of the cars forced me to step up and play a little bit better golf.
Also, they overbook this course on nice days. Or maybe it was a nice day after a heavy rain, so everyone was golfing slowly. The course dudes kept us moving, even though we broke out into a rendition of Sweet Dreams Are Made of These and also accidentally hit another dude’s Bridgestone ball. Boy was he angry. To be fair, he hit it onto our fairway from another tee. Shoot straight, shooter. Oh, that’s another thing about this course – it’s fairly cramped and close together, so people are CONSTANTLY losing balls onto and between other fairways. Everyone gets frustrated. I guess we all need to play better.

after almost 6 months of my son and I going out on the first available tee time every sunday, they now tell us that we can’t do single tee times anymore thus not allowing my five year old to enjoy golfing wth me anymore. way over priced for what it is. will never go there again. You can’t put a five year old in a foursome you idiots. Plus I am a scratch golfer and finish the course always at 3 hours.

Great greens. Not a difficult course but a great place to play

Price-​wise you can’t really beat Hillandale. I’ve paid much more in CA and gotten way less, so I’m very happy with the value.
CONDITION: Most of the time the course is in pretty good condition. Sometimes (especially after a rainy week), the greens are horrible though. Looks like most people don’t fix their ball marks so the green looks like a leopard. Otherwise, not bad.
PLAYABILITY: This course is a huge confidence booster. Its pretty wide open. There will usually be some danger on one side of the hole, but its easy to avoid because the other side is empty. Also, it plays relatively short (6,339 from the blues). So there are alot of chances to score.
OVERALL: Its a great place to scratch that itch to play. You get what you pay for so don’t expect a championship course.