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Conditions
2.8
Value
4.1
Layout
3.8
Friendliness
3.8
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.0
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About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 6656 yards
Slope 114
Rating 70.2

Editor's Note: Course closed for business.

Located in Callahan, Deerfield Lakes Golf Course is less than 10 miles from the Jacksonville International Airport. Its convenient location also makes it accessible from all of Jacksonville, as well as Amelia Island, and South Georgia. The 18-hole layout is player-friendly, providing a good round for all players despite handicap or skill level.

Deerfield Lakes Golf Course's well-manicured greens are medium in size and the lush, inviting fairways are average width. Although it is a forgiving golf course, water hazards come into play on sixteen holes to add some difficulty. There are also bunkers strategically placed throughout to keep golfers from taking the course too casually.

Course Details

Year Built 1964
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes
Pull-carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Discover Welcomed
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Snacks, Restaurant

Reviews

3.3
134 Reviews (134)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 8
Course Challenges Include:
Water Hazards 9
This course/club is great for:
Locals 16
Beginners 11
Walkers 9
This Course's Location is:
Near the Airport 14
Convenient to the City 7

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Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Greens?

Used to enjoy this course even 2 months ago as a nice practice course to tweak my game and drop some awesome scores. Always had relatively nice greens for the money! Sadly to say the greens were awful. More sand and patches than green. Tee boxes are uneven and overgrown. Fairways are alright. Careful to drive your cart more than 2 mph on the course as you'll hit some insane bumps and your clubs will go flying. They need to seriously spend some money to fix it up

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 31
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Room For Improvement

The layout is fairly simple, with very few bunkers and water hazards, especially for a Florida course, but they make up for it degree-of-difficulty-wise with small greens. What keeps my rating for this course low is largely the clubhouse area. How can you call yourself a 19th hole when you don't have a machine set up to take credit cards? It's the 21st century for goodness sakes. How do you have someone employed in the clubhouse who doesn't know how to do... well... much of anything, really. They were all very friendly, but saddled by incompetence and poor facilities. Clearly they're not trying to be Amelia Island, but they can be better than they are.

One note if you're going to play, it is the least-rolling fairways I've ever encountered. Expect your drives to be 10-20 yards shorter than usual.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

improving

at the beginning of the summer the greens were in great shape then I understand they lost their greens keeper then they lost most of the greens due to a fungus they still have a couple of temporary greens and patch together the other greens

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Commented on 11/29/2016

Havent played this course for over a year. It is still in rough shape but vastly improved. All of the old comments still apply. I lost my ball at least twice on the fairway. Probably be another year before i go back again.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Twice a year
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Not worth the money

I used to love playing Deerfield, but the course has went way down. Some of the worse greens I've ever seen. Dead grass and new patches have been laid down causing the surface to be bumpy and makes putting hard. Need to start over on the course.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing
Average weather
Used cart

poor

I have never experienced greens in such bad conditions I will not ever play there again.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

what has happened to Deerfield?

The greens are in such blighted shape I will ask about them before returning.
The course should shutdown and repair this condition before any more players has a visit like mine.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Very Poor Greens

The course was nice except for the greens. I've never experienced greens in such bad conditions. I will not ever play there again and would recommend people choose another location to play.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Previously Played
Average weather
Used cart

Poor greens

The fairways were in ok shape but the greens are the worst I have seen. Tee box were not the best also.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

The greens were terrible

Normally the greens are but this time they were not! I'm glad I made my tee time with GolfNow otherwise it would've been a waste of money to play! Still... I'll be back!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

DISAPPOINTED

CRABGRASS IN FAIRWAY, HAZARDS NOT STAKED, GREENS WERE AERIATED,

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap Don't know
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

First Time On This Course

This was my first time playing on this course and just started playing golf six months ago. The course was good but the staff was even better. I will definitely come back again soon and recommend this course to anyone.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

It's a good course

It was good..put too much sand on the greens when they were arifying them.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Great Value

Good news: Fairways, tee boxes, fringes around greens were super! Bad news: Greens were spotty with lots of worn or dead areas on putting surface. Pro Shop Attendant said it was a result of a cold winter. Nice venue at a great price. Staff was very friendly & helpful. I played alone but wished I'd joined up with golfers familiar with the course layout. I teed it up from the White Tees and found it plenty long for my level. If you choose to play from the Blue Tees it'll be quite challenging. There are 4 sets of tee markers. During play I hit into some hazard areas that probably locals would have known about. No GPS on the carts but every hole has 150 yd markers clearly visible and 100 yd concrete markers in the ground. So judging exact distances can be somewhat of a problem. It was a nice layout and I recommend giving it a try. I played at 11 am and the course was not crowded. One 4some let me play through. The course is 31 miles (one way) from my house but, it was worth the drive. All in all a nice golfing experience.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Don't go

Saw this on golfnow for $10 and thought it would would be worth trying out. The greens were like putting on a sidewalk and fairway wasn't great. I won't be back. Worst course I've ever played

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Slow golf

It took 9 holes to get everyone moving at a good pace! We had four players and 2 players never played before but we had to wait with 2 other 4 player groups! I think they had to many people lined up to play at the same time

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Decent at times

Ive played here many times, the greens are currently in pretty bad shape. Once the greens come back the course will be in great condition.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Twice a year
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Easy beginners course

Easy, great for beginners or practicing.
Holes are a straight shot

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Deerfield lakes

The greens have been in far better shape than they are now. They are still better than others but not in as good as they used to be. This is a good course for the money but it used to be better.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Not in good shape

Played this course yesterday. It was just old and the greens were not in good shape at all. The price was cheap but prob should be cheaper then what it was bc of the condition it was in.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Course conditions

Fairways had various grasses/weeds. Greens a little rough and slow.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
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