The Virtues Golf Club

What was once one of the best public golf courses in Ohio and the entire country, is now just a reminder of what is was (and what it could be). It is the clear that the owners have stopped investing any money in the golf course. Given that they charge $120/round, I expect more. Whatever cashflow they are generating from greens fees must be going straight in their pockets. Almost everything about the place - the golf course, clubhouse, range, pro shop, etc. is going downhill...fast. It appears that almost nothing cosmetically has been worked on for some time. The place is now 25 years old and it is showing its age. On the course, the cart paths are in bad shape and the restrooms and bridges are decaying. They course layout is outstanding, so long as you like a course that will beat you up a little bit. If you hit a poor shot, you will be penalized (nothing wrong with that). The views are spectacular. The playing conditions are just average. Here's how I'd rate the course: greens - 7, fairways - 6, tees - 6, rough - 5, traps - 2. I was surprised at how soft the greens were and the traps were all but neglected. Their onsite 'cabins', or whatever they call them, look like government housing units. I didn't see them on the inside but the exterior looks rough. The service in the pro shop, bev cart, halfway house and restaurant was pretty good. The people were nice and the food was above average. Side note: there is almost nothing worth purchasing in the pro shop. Of 6 of us on this trip, one guy bought one hat. The logo and font on their gear makes you not want to wear any of it - it's so bad. Lastly, pace of play was 4:45, so pack a sandwich its a long round of golf. I wish I had a spare $10M lying around, it would be nice to show this formally outstanding course the love it deserves.

Always a treat to golf at a course so well maintained as The Virtues Golf Club. It's a great test of golf with several tee box options for all levels of golfers. You are greeted by a friendly staff at bag drop, the pro shop, the starter, the halfway house, and player assistants when you finish. It has always been a pleasant experience as long as you choose the best tee box that matches your ability.

Rating as an event venue only. Attended a private event here and the venue is lovely. Amazing views outside the party room and tons of space for a party. Restrooms clean and spotless. Plenty of parking space.

Very nice, high quality golf.A little remote but worth the drive.Recommend for the above average golfer. Priced higher than most.

Course was in excellent shape and surprisingly not busy for a Saturday. We teed off when group ahead was off first green. Never waited on a shot and never had anyone behind us waiting. Ranger gave my 2 senior partners a handicap sticker to facilitate their round very much appreciated.

I play a lot of golf and during a visit to central Ohio played Virtues with my wife. Course condition and layout were great, but I will not be back and cannot recommend. My wife and I are both very quick and efficient club golfers who are use to walking rounds of three hour or less. On the day we played Virtues, 6/19/2022, we were paired with two other females golfers. These two ladies, as we quickly found, were also very good golfers who played briskly and efficiently. On the first tee our foursome gets a lecture about pace of play from the starter. I'm thinking good, maybe the pace will be decent. Both me and the ladies who joined us told the starter don't worry about us, we'll be right on the group in front us....starter then gives us a "smirk" look. The starter attaches some sort of tracking device to the two ladies' cart with another warning of if turns red we'll be out to see you. Again I'm thinking they will monitoring pace of play and maybe we can do this in four hours. Forty-five minutes into play we finally get to the third tee. For the first two holes we watched the group in front with no direction or sense knock balls into woods continuously after numerous practice stokes. None of the four are ever ready to play when it is their turn.....painful to watch. No ranger or marshal is seen until we are playing hole nine. We have waited for extended periods on all first eight holes watching the antics of the group in front of us. We are now 2.5 hours into the round and I see the ranger approach the two ladies with whom we are playing and confront them about slow play. The ladies are not taking it from the ranger, and they let him know very directly our foursome is not the problem. They clearly tell him where the problem is. Ranger confronted our group right away when it was so very apparent where the problem was, he had not bothered to see the wide open course in front of the group immediately in front of us. Also, it is later admitted by the ranger we are the only group with the tracker and when it was flashing red they assumed we were the culprits of slow play. The three ladies in my foursome were only females I observed on the course the day I played. Don't how it is in Ohio, but profiling women as slow players is not a good practice where I live. Some the best most efficient players I know are women. The ranger did eventually return back to us and make amends for the accusations to our group, but pace of play was still slow due to the troublesome foursome in front of us. Finished the very irritating round in five hours. Irritating due to pace of play and wrongly putting the blame on our group.....wrecked what we were hoping to be an enjoyable round of golf. Again, nice course, won't be back. Your staff needs to be sure who they are accusing. The two ladies we played with told me the are done with Virtues also after years of routinely playing your course.

Arrived today (10/24/23) and our group was excited to play. Two guys greeted us and were very nice. We got a short lecture at the first tee about 90 degree rule and keeping pace of play. We got to the fourth hole and there were two groups on the tee ahead of us! (One just leaving, and the other was the group ahead of us.) Pace of play here was ridiculous! We called the clubhouse on the 5th tee and asked them to send out a ranger to help speed up play. The clubhouse told us there were two rangers working the back nine to speed up play and they would later work their way around to the front nine. On the 7th hole, the ranger stopped by our cart and asked me if I was handicapped. I said "no", and he told me to get the cart back on the cart path. I was literally 1 foot off the path, in the grass. He was very rude and a bit of a smart-ass. We waited EVERY HOLE for the group in front of us, who were also waiting on the group in front of them. Our tee time was 1:30, and we finished at 6:40pm. The group behind me couldn't even finish because of darkness. The kid cleaning our clubs back as the clubhouse said their were 5 more foursomes behind us. I'm sure none of them were able to finish. Scenery was beautiful and the course was in good shape, but after a 5 hour and 10 minute round, on a Tuesday afternoon, all four of us decided we were not going back to Virtues again.

pace of play terrible. pace machines on cart don't help pace of play. nice to see a ranger on course but when you have 4 groups on hole 7 something's wrong with the whole process. course nice.

Very good! Excellent food! Everyone should try. We only had sandwiches and fries but you get a large proportion and the waitress was excellent! Will definitely go back

Decided to make the trip to play the Virtues Golf Course in July 2021. The course does not deserve the #1 ranking for the top public course in the state of Ohio by Golf Advisor or Golf Digest. From entering the property, you can see the property has come under disrepair. The landscaping is overgrown and the parking lot and clubhouse is in rough shape. The pro shop is a hodgepodge of unorganized items and displays. Definitely does not have the appearance of a top course. Do not play this course if the course is cart path only. I played on a day when it was cart path only. There was no need for cart path only. The course was dry but the path rule was still in effect. Rain was in the forecast but had not rained yet. All cart paths are 40-50 yards away from greens and fairways. It slows down play significantly when you have all golfers on cart path only. The course cart paths need repaved. They are riddled with pot holes and need attending by the staff. There are numerous bunkers on this course that add to the appeal and course setup. They are placed in challenging locations off the tee and near greens that make the course setup appealing for golfers of all skill levels. The issue is the bunkers are in disrepair. Every bunker was washed out and look like it hadn't been maintained in some time. There is no way that any grounds grew had attended to the bunkers in some time as weeds were growing in most bunkers. Every bunker, including green side bunkers, were all hard pan from washout and poor drainage. The course setup and appeal was nice. It had generous fairways and very picturesque hole layouts. Great for all skill levels and ability. The green rolled true and fast, which was nice to see from a public facility. You can see that at one point in time the course was a true gem. No longer the case. At the end of your round, instead of being able to take your clubs to your car with your golf cart, you were left to return your cart behind the clubhouse and carry everything back to your car because there is a strict no carts in parking lot rule. A bad ending to an unimpressive round.