Pine Barrens at World Woods Golf Club

Nice layout. Course was a challenge especially the greens. Clubhouse not very nice. Very run down.

Our day began with a 90 min frost delay. We had plan to play Pine Barren first then Rolling Oaks second. Management let us swap so we would get 36 in. Pine is a tough course where accuracy is needed on approach shoots. Shots slightly off will penalize you harshly. Rolling is a course with generous fairways and very receptive greens. Overall pace of play way fantastic, course conditions were great and we most definitely will play again.

It’s been 10 years to play here.
I am very dissatisfied. The tee boxes and green condition are terrible.
Don’t waste of your money and time.

Although still not worth the current rate, it is well worth a hot deal under $50. Greens much improved from the last few months. Looking forward the seeing how the new owners can bring that back to its glory days.

This piece of ground is an amazing layout to drive to for a special golf paradise experience. Course has been there for 30+ yrs and it shows in certain places and it will be a travesty if the new owners come in and tear it apart!
The tranquility among the hundreds of Oak trees with the hanging air moss makes this golf experience like no other public golf place. Its about the golf, not the clubhouse which it should be. Its about meeting golfers of all ages and locations enjoying this special layout using every club in your golf bag. Check it out soon before the new owners come and potentially screw up this special expereince.

Driving up the entrance you can see that they have not maintained the property as the asphalt was buckling and the gate house was unoccupied. Very friendly inside at check in and starter at first tee very knowledgeable. Fairways were green and almost looked like bent grass. Greens were in excellent shape and on the smallish side. Lots of workers cutting and blowing leaves off course. This was best course I have played in the area. Would I pay $100 to play here? No but at $50-$60 is an excellent value. Course has been purchased by Cabot Links out of Nova Scotia Canada. They are going to close it down this summer for 18 months and redo both courses, clubhouse, etc. Going to be a destination spot in 2023.

Been a couple months since I played at World Woods...Pine Barrens was "healing" in nice shape. Greens were overall good and the rest of the course in fine shape. Always a treat to play at World Woods!

Exciting of things are planned for worldwoods. Unfortunately I have a feeling that it will eliminate for many of us the opportunity to play there as it sounds like it will be priced out of the average golfers budget. It ains any any rate both courses will be missed as well as a practice facility.

I have played this course since 90's, the topography and strategic holes are excellent. You are able to recover from shots in the pines as the trees are trimmed correct (raised skirts) the surfaces are all in good condition. My only complaint would be the green fringe is 1" longer than the green and balls collect on this border creating a difficult lie, even on the green. The starter was rude, he won't last for Cabot company, just go ahead and retire dude. The asthetics are not as up kept as years past, but the golf is still exceptional

Didn’t live up to the hype I’ve heard about for years golfing in the area. Every aspect of the course was very average. greens, fairways, tee boxes…. average. Pace of play 4h 40m…. Average for a public course on weekend. The starter was a jolly fella (sarcasm). Not even the course layout wowed. Cool to say I played course pre-renovations but won’t be back

Driving into the property my first impression was is this a deserted, old golf course. It was very eerie feeling. However, once on the first tee, I was pleasantly impressed by the layout of Pine Barrens. Bring a shovel, because there’s a ton of sand. Green complexes were very challenging. Now that Cabot links has purchased the property I’m hopeful that the redesign will greatly improve the course. I give the course a solid 3.5 stars. Very good.

Fantastic layout and conditions. Worth the 2.5 hour drive from my home. Played the Pine Barrens course and the par three course. Extraordinary practice areas, as well.

Great layout, course in good shape. I would go 4.5/5. Playing this course makes you feel like you are not in Florida. Greens not super fast but rolled well. Few greens had small dead spots, but doesn't change my opinion of the course. Staff was very friendly. 4 hours & 10 minutes to finish our round as foursome. Will definitely return in the future.

Greens could have been better. Live course layout but bummed about green conditions.

As many accolades as this course got previously, the reviews lately are accurate. The greens are struggling. Infrastructure is dated. The layout is fantastic, which makes the putting surfaces so much more disappointing. The rest of the course is still quite well maintained. Patchy grass over black algae/disease on the greens and far more damp than they should be given the season, allowing the disease to thrive. It may not be as simple as a bake out, but there's nothing being done to improve the greens other than a few spots with old holes used to plug some repairs. Depressing, but I had to see if the reviews were true for myself. I probably would have been better off not seeing how poor the conditions are, and just how great of a design it is. I'd deal with broken cart paths for good putting surfaces.