The entire length of the course is a trifle over one and a half mile, and although the land is upland meadow and given to growing long grass, yet the course is generally conceded to be excellent.

The holes are short, allowing the round to be accomplished by a capable player in thirty-two strokes.

The course has thirteen bunkers of varying sizes, besides two water hazards at the inlet and outlet of the lake.

The lake itself is spoiled as a hazard by the thick grove of trees on the side nearest the Academy.

Sometimes a poor drive lands a ball in that same grove, and there is much trial and tribulation ere the player has succeeded in dislodging it from the underbrush.
While generally level, the course is diversified by slight elevations, upon which are the putting greens, their red and white flags visible from all parts of the links.