So I paid $40 to play 18 holes at Hedingham golf course in Raleigh yesterday. It was the absolute worst course I have ever played on. Other courses in the area that are in the same price range make this course look like the field in the back of my house. It was litterally hard to tell the fairways from someones back yard. They were full of crabgrass and the greens were full of holes and flattened weeds that looked like they had been smashed flat with a mower. And big burn marks that looked like a cart had peeled out from the greens and left huge skid marks. This is not a lie: there was a Dandylion growing on a green.
It was so bad we only played 9 holes and told them we wanted our money back. They refused and gave us a rain check that we promptly threw away. Everyone knows a course has to be bad to keep our crew from playing. On the 8th hole we came across one of the greenskeeping staff sitting next to the tee box in a small greens truck. He procedeeded to hand roll himself a cigarrette (it appeared to be a real, tobacco cigarette) and then talk on his cell phone at full volume as we tee’d off. At most reputable courses this would get him fired based on a complaint, but not Headingham. At one point my ball even landed in a man made hole in the middle of a fairway. The kind of hole a kid digs in his back yard. Why would anyone play this course when Wil-Mar is right down the road for the same price?
Avoid this “golf course” and save your money. It hardly even qualifies as a course because it’s mostly a bunch of undefined fairways in the back yards of townhouses. I feel bad for those who bought actual houses surrounding the “Hedingham Golf and Athletic Club”. That’s nothing to be proud of right now. It’s the worst course conditions in the area and should only cost a fraction of what other courses cost to play. But it doesn’t.