Crooked Cat at Orange County National

What you get for EIGHTY dollars at Crooked Cat is 30-minute waits per hole. They’ve never attempted to solve the pace-of-play disaster that is #12.

The problem was a group of 24 they let out – likely comprised of 90% non-golfers. That’s a problem of the American golf industry, not OCN, that doesn’t restrict access to courses by skill level. So, good golfers end up hating golf.

There was no attempt to refund my money.

The recently-punched greens are covered with splotches of something green that does not look like grass.

Where I’ll be playing now for TWENTY to FORTY dollars: Zellwood, Mayfair, Ventura, CC of Mt. Dora, Redtail, Black Bear, Dubsdread, Winter Park 9, Winter Park Pines, Legends of Clermont, Wedgefield, Eagle Dunes, Deltona Club, etc., etc.

Goodbye Crooked Cat. Goodbye Panther Lakes. Goodnight Moon. Goodbye OCN.

it appears that they aerated and sanded the greens but there was no notification of this when booking the round. I wouldn't have played this course and paid this much to play on these greens. They were basically brown and bare.

Took a big group to play here because I hyped it up so much from the last time I played there. The greens are completely gone, trashed and likely not to come back anytime soon. The rest of the course was in great shape but the greens aren’t. Avoid at all costs, I’m not sure with the shape they were in that would be playable for another month or maybe even longer.

Although my husband and I loved the course itself, we found it very frustrating that there was no one solidifying the pace of play. We were behind almost 45 mins in the back 9. We ended up having to skip 4 holes just to get in front of the hold up. Once we did that, we got to play the last hole and even our cart monitor said we were back on time. If we had waited it would have easily been another hour and a half possibly 2 hours at the pace we were playing. Disappointing as you pay a lot of money to play 18 holes but spent more time waiting to play than actually playing and on top of that, skipping 4 holes. Not sure if we will be back but we won’t be paying full price if we do.

Greens are excellent, rest of the course is in good shape.
Pace of play continues to be an issue - 5 hours to play... Again. It's become a once or twice a year course due to pace rather than a "must play regularly" place.

I’m still not sure why the restaurant shuts down the kitchen so early on a Saturday afternoon. We finished our round at 5 pm and could only get a cold pre-made sandwich or the last hot dog left. The course was FULL and I’m certain we weren’t the only ones that wanted to order off the menu.

Came from Canada to play. Course is in fantastic shape but since we are not orange county residents this made it a little expensive to play. No regrets because it was a great experience but with the price I will probably try other courses next time I am down there

This is a great course. Very interesting holes and always a challenge. Everything was wonderful except the pace of play. I wished the rangers would enforce the pace of play. Group ahead of us were extremely slow.

Course was in great shape. Pace of play was normal. The ranger was an unreasonable jerk. We had just waited on the prior 2 holes and he told us to speed up after 2 bad shots on a part 3. Tried to explain it and he was just dismissive.

Very good course. Only criticism was Marshall bugging us unnecessarily about our pace of play. Finished in 4:25 hr!!!!

5 hours 10 minute round. No marshalls. No fun even if playing well when having to wait frequently.

Course is always in great shape. Pace of play was slow on the back nine.