Little Bennett Golf Course

Little Bennett is a great format. Aways in great shape. The course has been very maintained through all the rough weather. I play LB a lot and it never fails to be a great experience. I was particularly impressed with how good the greens played. Good job Montgomery County!

Well maintained. Greens were not easy. I would play this again.

Greens are a bit too fast and the pace too slow. Great course if you like the challenge.

I recommend this course 7 days a week. Twice on Sunday.

This remains one of my favorite courses anywhere. It is a hilly, woodland course that provides interest on every hole. Of particular note are 9 and 18 on which you must cross a chasm on your approach shot to the green. The chasm is in a nature preserve area so the many balls that find their way there are gone for good. Tee shots that are too long leave you at the bottom of the ravine, one hopes still short of the nature preserve area, with a major uphill shot to the green. Playing too safe may leave you 200+ yards from the green with that chasm to cover. I hit a six iron off the 18th tee and a 5 wood for my second shot. On 9, I was still about 240 yards from the green after a muffed tee shot and decided to play it safe and lay up short of the nature preserve. The idea was good, but my 9 iron found the downhill slope and bounded into the preserve :(.

The course had been recently aerated (probably 2 weeks previously) on many of the holes on the front 9, leading to some less than desirable bounces. I found the greens VERY hard to read and with unpredictable speeds. Some of this was due to the aeration, but for most, their contours were subtle to my eye but not to my ball.

Aside from the aeration issue, the course was immaculate. Both the fairways and rough were grass, not weeds. The lies in the fairway (again when there weren't negative effects from aeration plugs) were tight and clean. The rough seemed to have at least 2 different heights, with the lower ones giving you a good look at the ball but with very thick and lush grass around it. Shots from there were as expected when you WILL get grass between the ball and the club-head. Oh, there are also a fair number of nature preserve areas around the course, not just on 9 and 18.

As I am getting along in years, and have lost a great deal of distance, I played from the gold tees this time. It makes the course much more approachable for people like me. I had been avoiding the course after a protracted illness a couple of years ago, but I decided to go ahead and play it again, this time from the golds. I am really glad I did. Several holes are much shorter from these tees giving people like me an opportunity to feel like they might score they way they used to.

The only negative was the pace of play of the group in front. While the course layout makes it difficult to see more than one hole ahead at any time, I'm quite sure this foursome had AT LEAST two open holes in from of them. It being a Tuesday, and uncrowded, there were no marshals on the course to speed up play. These guys played "not ready yet" golf on all their shots and on the greens you would have thought the FedEx Cup was hanging on each putt. Come on people, speed it up so everybody can have a better time.

Fun course. Fair pace of play. As with any public course, other players lack of etiquette can get on your nerves. Put the cell phones away. If you must be on them, you do not need to yell into it. Get a better quality set. Rake the bunkers, fix your pitch marks. The greens are among the most challenging in Maryland. The down grade to a 4 is due to the bunkers. Several greenside bunkers are much too rocky.

Tough Course, not long, but you must be accurate. Bring extra balls!!

Always in good condition. Everyone I have taken to the course has liked it and returned to play again !

Excellent course, very challenging, pace of play was ok. Will recommend to others and definitely will be back to play again.

Tee boxes good, fairways good, rough was a little rough but fair, most greens were in good shape. Tough challenging par 5's, some scoreable par 4's and the par 3's were all a joke. The par 3's had elevation drops from 30-90 feet. I can understand one gimmick hole, but all 4 par 3's?! And with the par 3 greens being in the lowest lying areas, they were pretty beat up from too much moisture. Had fans trying to dry them out.
Overall, not a bad course, little expensive on the weekend for a public course.

Very impressed with their green conditions. I rarely see divots on the greens. Well maintained course!

We enjoyed the course, but were stuck behind a VERY slow foursome. Their slow play began on the very first hole and delayed our 11:10 tee off time. They failed to keep up with the group ahead of them. On several holes they tramped into the wildlife areas to find balls and even tried to hit out of those designated areas. A five hour round is not what we had in mind. Also, had I known the driving range was closed on Thursdays we would have gone to a different course.

Mountainous tough public course which is a part of Montgomery County, MD, golf system. It was surprisingly well-maintained as other county courses were. I haven't been there for more than a year, but next month the county tournament will be held there. So I went to preview it. It was a difficult course because in many holes I couldn't see greens and fairways and I had to know the course well in order to hit the ball right. Because I had GPS and it helped me understand the direction to the green, I did so so well, but it was still tough. In a couple of par-3 holes, you literally hit the ball down the cliff. The management switched in 9 with out 9, so I started from hole 1 which used to be hole 10. Probably that was a better arrangement. In the in 9 there was a traffic congestion and it took almost three hours for 9 holes although it was Wednesday afternoon. GolfNow price was $26.50 which was reasonable.

Do not think a beginner would enjoy playing this course. I usually shoot in low 80s and found this course challenging. Better after you play it a few times due to the blind shots to know where you're hitting. I had a great time playing Little Bennett!

Jim C.

My wife and I played this course and I enjoyed it, but she did not. I have been playing golf for 20 years and she has only been playing for three. This is a very difficult course, even for the experienced golfer. It is very hilly. My friend told me that they used to use this course as a U.S. Open qualifier.

would have liked to see the staff move the pace of play along, otherwise great day!!

Great challenging course layout. Playing conditions are excellent this time of year. Pace of play is just right and the staff is wonderful.

Course is well maintained.....greens were recently aerated so putting was a bit challenging. Couple of blind shots here and there but overall a very fun course.

Overall for the time of year and the winter conditions that have been prolonged this year, the course was in great shape. The greens were very fast and hard due to them being aerated in the last 2 weeks, but with the weather warming up the greens will be in great shape. The fairways were in great shape as well as the tee boxes. Customer service was very good.

Little Bennett is a unique course. Its layout appears friendly, and getting from tee to green is within the scope of every skill level. But getting the ball in the hole is another story. The greens have always been the story, and if you're unlucky or not careful, you'll run up a big score in a hurry. I'm a 7-handicap, and on two consecutive holes, I carded four shots on each after being within 20 feet of the green. A short chip, a putt near the hole that slides down a slope about 15 feet after trying to stop in gimme range, and a missed 15-footer turned an easy par into a double, just like that. Have fun, don't take the round seriously, and don't play this course regularly unless you have unlimited funds for psychotherapy!