Meadow Ponds Golf & Country Club

Man, where to start. A couple friends and I decided to play this course after driving to Morgantown for a football game and should have checked it out first. At first it looked promising with a nice clubhouse and very friendly staff. All that went away once we started playing it. The condition of the course was some of the worst Ive seen (there was gravel in the fairway) but the worst of it was the lack of any type of etiquitte whatsoever. Next to one fairway was a townhouse with a bunch of guys drinking, yelling and blaring music on the patio (this was 2 in the afternoon) and it was a HUGE distraction. The 9 guys in front of us (yeah 9 of them) were drunk, hitting about 5 balls a piece and driving the carts up on to the greens when they werent trying to roll them. I was putting over tire tracks. We told the ranger about them and he didnt even care. Apparently, once they have your money they dont care what you do. I guess I could blame myself for not researching first, but I figured at $35 a round it had to be decent....wrong. Anyways, if you''re in the Morgantown area and considering this course, just keep looking.

Lets see they dressed up the course by putting a few houses around it and then decide to charge you even more for such a poor course. Bring a lot of balls with you because you will hit dead straight drives into the fairway aka rough. The grass is so high your ball gets lost even on your good shots. Very poorly maintained and no golf etiquette on the course. I was out there with a group of 9 people out in front of us just hitting balls like it was the wild wild west and playing bumper cars with the carts. Management does not care.

DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT, go after it has rained. The course has extremely poor drainage and needs more then a day of sunshine to soak up the water. There are greens that are flooded and even the fairways.

Bottom line is stay away from this place unless your looking to just drink and mess around.

I have only played the front nine on this course, but I wouldn't spend the extra money to continue to the back nine. The greens have been aerated recently and have not recovered from it. Good luck getting your putts to go the direction you planned. This really the worst problem the course has right now, and I'm sure it will recover from this before long. The fairways are better than stated in the previous reviews, and the variety of challenges on the different holes is decent. This course is okay if you want to get in a quick round after work, but there are courses close by that are currently in better shape and are around the same price or less.