Phalen Golf Course Pro Shop

One of my favorite courses. I grew up playing here dozens of times in the 80’s and 90’s. Was back a couple years ago and the course was in beautiful condition, better than it was back in the day
HUGE MASSIVE trees and tons of them providing plenty of shade and challenge, some elevation changes, reasonable amount of water hazards, par 3’s that hug ponds, tons of doglegs, some long par 5’s. Can’t wait to get back and play here again when I’m in town

This course in summer is straight up packed. If you book a tee time for less than four, don’t show up with four because they often pair you up with other people. They do have a good discount for students but it ends once you are older than 20. As far as value for cost, it’s pretty good. The course conditions definitely aren’t at the bottom of the totem pole but there definitely are better courses around — mostly in the burbs though.
We tend to hit this course up a few times a summer (well, we did until we no longer got the student discount). There are all sorts of skill levels playing here so the play usually moves pretty slow. If you’re going for a quick nine on your lunch hour I’d rethink it. We usually set aside a good 2 – 3 hours if we’ve got two or more as like I said, play moves pretty slow.

Decent course for recreational golfers. Not overly challenging, but convenient location and reasonably good conditions make it an occasional stop. The young lady in the Pro Shop was very nice and quite accommodating.
Play tends to be a bit slow and it seemed strange to me that they would allow a boy about 12 to be driving a cart. When I encountered him, he and his buddy had driven close enough to the green to step out directly onto the putting surface. They followed that by driving onto a tee box. Highly unusual at most courses I’ve played.
Over all average experience.