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Staten Island's municipal golf scene has a proud, working-class character, and Silver Lake Golf Course sits at the heart of it. Operated by the city's parks department and occupying land in the Silver Lake Park neighborhood on the island's North Shore, it has served generations of New York City residents looking for an accessible, no-frills round without a trek to the suburbs. The course shares its name with the adjacent Silver Lake Reservoir, and the surrounding parkland gives it a greener, more secluded feel than you might expect from a city-run layout inside the five boroughs.
At par 70, the course plays shorter than a traditional championship layout, which suits its everyday audience — beginners getting comfortable with a full round, regulars who know every slope, and lunch-break players squeezing in nine. That brevity doesn't mean the course is without character; the rolling, wooded terrain of Staten Island's North Shore keeps things interesting.
For New York City golfers, Silver Lake represents exactly what a good municipal should: genuine access to the game, on real land, without pretense.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,273 | 70.4 | 119 | 70 |
| Blue · women | 5,714 | 73.9 | 132 | 72 |
| Blue · men | 5,700 | 67.5 | 114 | 70 |
| Silver · men | 5,348 | 65.6 | 110 | 69 |
| Silver · women | 5,252 | 71.2 | 123 | 72 |
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