Willowick Golf Course

The course is in bad shape. The fairways are rough and have over grown weeds

This course has to be the absolute worse course in all of Orange County! This course has junkyard carts, has zero smooth pathways to drive on. The fairways look like a gopher battlefield with tunnels and mounds everywhere. Hundreds of them. I think the best thing about this course is the greens, and I give that a 2 star rating. I wouldn’t come back to this course even if they paid me to play here.

Locals know how bad this course is and it’s a cheaper, last minute option with open tee times for a reason. If you’ve never played here, don’t! The greens are possibly the worst I’ve ever experienced, you can hit in the fairway every time and likely be in a gofer hole, divot, sand, or dirt. On the front 9 the tee boxes have tree roots running along the surface, divots everywhere, impossible to stand on even ground.
No cart girls with drinks or food, “restaurants” only had nathan hot dogs & a very limited bar. And the bathroom has black mold everywhere and sinks that are non-functional. I can go more into detail about the other issues but you get the gist.
It’s the oldest 18 hole course in Orange County so I hope there’s a way to turn this course around but it’s likely due to close

53$ for a terrible conditioned course with poor greens

Not easy to find good tee times in OC. Willowick at times is go to for this. For the fee, again in OC it’s not a bad track. Do really like staff. Greens generally are in good condition. Other parts of the course could use better maintenance, attention. Been playing it for over 30 years, not sure what it is but pace of play seems not as bad previously. Good course to play when your game isn’t treating you too well. Will be back again and again.

Unhappiness started with the so-called driving range. The ground was torn up from over-use. Hard to get a good lie just to practice! The balls were quite old making the $7 small bucket price criminally excessive.

The fairways were all in extremely poor condition. Pot holes and uneven terrain made the ride painful if not harmful.

I’ve been playing ‘Wick for a few years now and the conditions have been the best that I’ve ever played.
For the amount of play it gets, the greens and fairways are fairly lush.

Really liked that they have cordoned off many of the areas players like to drive to grow those areas, especially on the Par 3s.

Love the new carts! Really nice touch and they restocked the Pro Shop. Like the ‘Wick swag. Great job!

It doesn't matter how good the course is the guy who is always in the pro shop is running the place into the ground. He is lazy and has no business knowledge. We had 2 groups of two and the guy asked us to pay with 1 card for 4 people and we said no. Then he begged us to do that. We again said no each person will be paying for themselves. And he said well that will take 15 minutes then. This makes no sense and he is just a lazy crooked guy.

I've been playing this course for 2 decades. Back when I was a regular and Kenny K. was the teaching pro this course was local course and was packed on the weekends. Then it turned into a 5 somes 6 hour round and I left. The conditions were not good and nobody seemed to mined the long waits at every tee. For a very long time this course looked like it was going to fade away and disappear forever. Now the new leadership is trying to bring it back to a better place to play. New carts are coming (no gps😫) and for the first time in a long time the greens are much better. They are cleaning it up little by little and it's much much better. If they keep the cost down and eliminate slow play with better more consistent Marshall work I'll be happy to return to play it again. I say we should support their efforts as they work hard to get it back to previous years. Give the Wick a try....

This was probably one of the most unkept courses I’ve ever played on. Grass was in very very poor shape. It felt like we were off roading in the carts, even when on the cart paths.

The guy in the pro shop was not friendly at all.

Kitchen was closed at 1pm on Sunday.

I’ll never be back

Unfortunately, this was the worst course I’ve ever played. It was inundated with mole and gopher holes. Throughout the course the greens were lumpy, and it looks like it was in the middle of the ghetto with a graffiti.

I guess i should start with, this course could be and Probably was at one point a nice course. Even the staff gives disciunts because they know the quality. The maintenance is just lacking and with the mass amount of rain we got this winter this is the only course that didn’t capitalize on it. It is like they only have 3 sprinklers hitting the whole course its so dry! The absolute worse part is the gopher holes every 10 ft and the random mounds of dirt in the middle of the fair way. Not to mention it is like Baja 1000 out there with the cart paths! The poor cart’s U joints are just blown makes steering the worst. Up side they have a nice bar with plenty TVs and beer in stock smooth putting practice greens and decent restrooms. The driving range grass is junk. So if you are looking for average priced course to just go drink and play this is it. But by no means is it a “nice” course its just ok. It is what it is they don't plan on changing anything anytime soon. Also one last thing don't get surprised if a local steals your ball after ya shank it, or if they force you to pair up with some randoms.

Fairways aren't mowed and around the greens there's muddy areas. greens are slow but in nice condition. trash cans are full, even in the early hours that I played. proshop was unprofessional and seemed like he didn't want to be there.

The course would propbably be nice if the course was taken care of! The starter or the guy in the pro shop was not friendly at all. It seemed like we were bothering him or interrupting his day. Trash cans were filled and it's early in the morning. The fairways made me feel like I needed a ATV. The rough was crazy high in many areas. Mud was everywhere and there hasn't been rain for some time now! The dirt paths were muddy in places. The greens were slow but they were in great shape and the bunkers were close to being concrete.
The course needs some TLC and on a regular basis. Currently, the course is not getting proper care.

Our cart stopped working at hole 8. No one came out to help. We called the club house and they said they will look into it. We walked rest of the two holes before we got to club house. The person said they would give us lunch as an inconvenience but when we finally finished they went back on their word and just gave us a beer each. Wouldn’t wanna come back again.

Don’t waste your time or money here. Pay the same amount to play at Costa Mesa, Riverview or David L Baker who at least take care of their course. This course is hands down the worst course in Orange County. The owner needs to fire his management team and grounds keeper and just start over. I will never play here again and you shouldn’t either.