Baytowne at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort

The greens were unacceptable for such a quality course. They shouldn't allow play under such conditions, especially for $100.

Course layout was nice, had a lot of character. Greens were horrible though. But the design and the people in my opinion out weighed the brutal greens. I am hoping they are just preparing them for aeration. I will play this course next year when I return.

First, I played the Raven course in late June and it was outstanding. The greens were incredible and the course was well maintained. We went down on a family boys trip last week and couldn't get on the Raven with a group of 4 so we played Baytowne. The greens were very very slow and someone had tapdanced around d every hole. It almost looked intentional. It looked as though the cups had not been changed in a while. They were burred out something awful. They were so bad that I had a new LAB putter and I refused to putt with it after the first few holes. I was worried I would send my putter back with an unfair assessment. It was an embarrassing experience, because I had built the course up to my brother and 2 sons. I spent the round and evening apologizing. My municipal greens at home were better taken care of than this resort course, and the cost is considerably less. Overall an uneasy round of worry because of the way I built the experience up to my foursome. Very disappointed in the experience. The Raven experience was great. An everpresent beverage cart and overall great experience. We never saw a beverage cart the entire 18 holes. We did see a couple at the turn and the end of our round in the clubhouse area. There was no drinking water on the course and no coolers allowed. The heat index was 105 and we were parched. (Started at 11:50 and finished at 3:30) Pace of play was great, but 2 of us were single handicap golfers and the other 2 were 15 or less. I hit 14 of 18 greens and 11 fairways and had multiple 3 putts. Putting the greens was more than challenging. We kidded about automatic 2 putts outside of 10 feet. That shouldn't happen at a $100 plus round of golf. Needless to say I didn't apply this score to my GHIN. I hate writing poor reviews and contemplated not writing this one, but deemed it was necessary. My group wanted to go to the clubhouse to complain, be as though I payed for the rounds, but I was too upset and would have lost my witness. I know this resort takes pride in service and I pray this was an anomaly, and not the standard for the courses not named the Raven.

Had an early tee time . Staff in club house was super rude . Starter was too lazy to get out of his cart. They just sanded the greens which we weren't made aware of.

Balls bounced all the way to the hole. Substantial dry spots, tufts and covered with sand to mask the problems

Arrived at the club house to be told the greens had been topped dressed and this was a good thing! Hit the first green and quickly figured out why. Spots filled in with sand all over the greens. The greens looked like they hadn’t been cut in weeks!

Completely unplayable and made for a terrible round..no way should anyone be charged that amount to play conditions like this course was in!

The course is beautiful in many respects. Tee boxes and fairways in great shape. Lots of beautiful water. But only 6074 yards from the blue tees? The greens were sanded over (they never warned us about that) and many of the traps were hard as a rock.

Many of the holes appeared to be cut by someone who didn't know what he was doing. Rough edges and blown out sides on most holes.

Worst of all, almost no drinking water on the course. Actually dangerous and maddening.

fairways and tea boxes are in nice shape, but the greens are horrible. Getting overrun with crab grass weeds burned out mower shaved spots very slow.

Courses layout and the surrounding scenery is fantastic. The greens were very slow and in poor condition. Definitely not a $100+ course.

Course was very nice and everything was well kept the range could’ve been better but it’s the range so I didn’t mind and the putting green was slow and it seemed different than what I’m used to seeing and on the course the greens were not well kept putts were impossible to read and same with the speed I wish the greens were nice would’ve made the course way better but I would still play again .

Staff was wonderful fairways where top notch and the landscape was beautiful but the reason I’d not recommend this course is because the greens are horrible inconsiderate golfer like two twist on the green with there cleats and up root mountains of grass and leave them behind so if u wanna play who lands closes to the hole without putting this is the course for you. When I asked staff they laughed and said you must of got off Baytown. You would thank the amount of money they charge for a round and how well upkeep the rest of the course is they have a marshal watching for these people

One of the best courses I’ve ever played while on vacation. Everything was great and can’t complain about the layout. Although, the greens were running very slow. I understand that they are slow (high grass) to prevent them from burning out. I’m just not used to playing in that type of greens. I kept fixing ball marks that were on my line. Hopefully they can enforce that players fix their ball marks. That’s my only reason for a “4” star rating due to the greens. I definitely recommend this place for anyone visiting the Destin area.

Course is not bad but greens are horrible. They definitely do not invest in the maintenance of the greens and it shows. Give yourself and your friends some grace on gimmes because you will earn it

The greens were in horrible shape and after talking to some of the staff, it’s been that way for a few years. Poorly cut and so many different types of grass. It also looked like they haven’t moved the cups in days. I will never play that course again. I’ve played the Raven before and enjoyed it but because of the Baytown experience I will not go back to either course.