University of South Florida Golf Course - The Claw

This is such a terrible course. Luckily for the general public, it’s permanently closing June 30th. Don’t waste your money.

This course is strictly garage and DONT waste your money and it is getting worst!!!! Waste of time and money!!! They do nothing here on Monday through Thursday cut grass to a minimum and go away on Friday and repeat the process over and over… it is worst than a over used dog park!!! I am writing a letter to the USF board of regents and calling the media. For this course to part of a great college, it is totally embarrassing to USF, Tampa, etc. And the management company that USF is using is ripping the school off and taxpayers!!

The course was horrible!!!
Trees had fallen, many greens were unplayable, someone had crashed into the bathroom and it was unusable. The list goes on and on.

This course is an embarrassment to USF. This is not a playable golf course and should be taken off of GOLFNOW.

There can be good deals for this course on GolfNow but I would wait at least a half a year from this review to see if conditions improve. The greens had virtually no grass and had a concrete feel. The tee box’s were complete sand so when swinging hard you would lose your lead foot as if you were hitting from a bunker. I played this a year ago when the course was well kept and a fun pace of play. I hope I’m returns that way as the layout of the course is great!

Despicable that they charge 30$ for such a horribly kept course

One of my favorite courses has gone way downhill! Greens are pathetic. It will be awhile before I consider returning to play here. Very disappointing.

The course is in terrible shape and not maintained. Greens have massive dead spots and hard to tell what is fairway vs rough. Tee boxes are mostly sand and any shot from shade is from sand.

GolfNow did not list the conditions of the course. The from nine had sand on the greens. The back nine the green were non existent. No make shift green or nothing. We were very very disappointed that we did not get a heads up by Golfnow of the conditions of the back greens.

My wife and I played here on Memorial Day thinking we would have an enjoyable round at USF’s golf course. This was hands down the worst golf experience I’ve ever had. From the clubhouse being boarded up and roped off (makeshift pro shop was a small shipping container) to the practice green and course greens looking like land mines went off to the tee boxes providing lies worse than bunkers to the on course restrooms looking like a bomb crime scene with yellow tape, we endured 7 holes in 2 hours and 11 minutes before finally leaving this “golf course.” I can’t imagine what the remaining 11 holes would have produced. The fact we paid $76 for two rounds of golf here is absurd. Choose ANY other course, literally any other golf course.

Tee boxes were in bad shape some no grass just sand/dirt, greens were bad some very little grass , some with craters , , tee box markers were missing in action on some holes, fairways were in fair condition, no restrooms on course just a porter like john at the turn but it was clean with running water, no water on course,, staff was nice, pro-shop was like a pod with doors and windows, just a course to get a workout for the price not for serious golfers.

I have played now the worst course ever.There is one in Va. that's bad but this takes number 1 prize !!!!!

I have been playing at the Claw for many years but havent played in several years due to deteriorating conditions. Decided to give it a try today; what a disappointment. Some of the the tee boxes were bare sand; the fairways were fair to average. A few of the greens were ok, but some were partly bare dirt and deep divots that re-directed the ball. Pro shop is at a trailer as are the restrooms, as the original club house and cart barn are literally overgrown and falling apart. Quit playing after 12 or 13 due to the condition. Should be closed for a complete renovation or closed down as it is certainly not worth the money any more. I used to love this course as it is a great layout and loaded with great trees and wildlife. Very sad.

the course had almost no good grass including the greens which had pot holes, dirt, etc. Will not play again.

Several of the greens simply aren't puttable. Expected thin fairways and thin tee boxes (which was the case), but not grassless rutty greens. But the weather was nice and the pace of play was good. Worth $15. Not worth the $30/each that we played.

What a great course, havent played in in a decade. I played it thousands of rounds from 1990 to2010.
This course is dead. Dead trees, dead fairways, dead greens. So sad !

This is possibly the worst course conditions I have ever played. Every T Box was nothing but sand, barely able to get a T to stand up, fairways were average to Ok but the greens were like the surface of the moon. Dry patches of dirt and weeds. Impossible to put a straight line, the ball bounces all over the place.