Leo J. Martin Memorial Golf Course

Horrible conditions. Greens were a mess. Fairways a mess. Rough a mess. Water only at clubhouse. Won’t be back until state commits to at least minimum standard for quality.

Decent price and accessibility but in really poor shape. The rough is extremely rough and the fairways are rough. The greens are slow and bumpy. If you are using the course to practice you’ll be fine assuming you don’t care about actually making putts.

The people working here for any length of time are tired and fairly apathetic about how terrible the course conditions are here at the East Coast's greatest Dog Track. What you can expect are low, broadleaf and gnarly weeds that formulate about 96% of the fairways and tee boxes, and what grass is there is what we call "old grass". This course needs to be ripped up and reseeded, but that will never happen. In short, the history of the course explains how it will never flourish, and that is because DCR hires people that embezzle tens of thousands of dollars intended for course improvements, then does nothing to rectify the situation still many years later. This place makes me want to cry when I play it, because 100% of golfers agree that the layout is super fun and still shows some of the natural contours Donald Ross helped find and shape into the course. Expect nothing but a 70's shag carpet on the greens where the grass is actually growing. This place might have a shot if it weren't run by such half-wits that do things like use a chemical on all the greens at once improperly that burnt them all to a crisp a couple years ago. Please, someone in MA government save these public courses: we have scant little and few overpriced, crappy courses to choose from in MA for public golf, where there are more private courses than any other concentration in the US. This is just a shining example of what could be great if one of the donkeys in charge would just give a darn instead of bragging about the private courses they play instead of those under their care. Enjoy your round!!!

I love playing here, the staff is very friendly, the course is fun and challenging, the layout is great. The only thing is the greens need a lot of work, I know it's the end of the season but the green don't look much different from the summer. Overall I'd 100% recommend playing here

The dogwalkers don’t pay, why should the golfers? Tee to green the worst course conditions ever. Terrible layout too if its your first round there. But its like pizza, even a lousy course is still golf.

The staff were friendly which was appreciated. The course was completely dead—from tee boxes to greens grass was a premium. There was not a single true green to be found. All the greens were a combination of dead, punched, crab grass, and dirt. The “cafe” was closed & there was no water on the course.

Maybe earlier in the season it’s better. Can’t complain for $45 but it was truly bad so do with that what you wish.

The course requires a lot of guesswork for the first time or occasional visitor, kind of like driving in Boston. There are NO yardage markers except for one red sprinkler head we happened upon on the front nine. The tee boxes don’t have yardage signs, and you can’t trust the scorecard because they’ve moved tee boxes and the different classes of tees over time. Moreover, the fairways look wide but are not. Where the fairway starts and the rough begins is a matter of randomness. I wasn’t sure whether the clover, ruts, or the spotty clumps of grass were fairway. There was nothing that was clearly grass of any variety.
The greens had bare spots and plenty of bumps. They ran slow, but I don’t know if that was a common state. They were a bit mossy, not wet.
Avoid looking for your ball in deep rough; there’s poison ivy in places.
Specific advice: don’t overshoot the green on the 7th. There’s about 10 feet of space before your ball is lost.

Possibly the definition of a local course, anyone who has recently moved to the area and is looking for a cheaper alternative can always rely on Leo J. The course has seen some improvement in the last few years, with a couple brand new greens added where once it was overgrown and unplayable. The back-9 offers more intrigue than the front with some nice bending holes requiring long second shots to reach the par-4 greens. Some of the greens and bunkers need some serious TLC and play can get backed up after regular work hours during the week, but it's really meant to be a course that all locals should know and frequent anyways when looking to get out and take some hacks.