The Rawls Course at Texas Tech

Our twosome was paired up with a couple visiting from Korea and we had a great time. Back nine was as challenging as ever with renovated bunkers coming in to our play regularly.

The course was in excellent condition, the staff was very friendly, the beer was very cold and I'm sure glad I kept the ball in the fairway most of the round because of the tall native grass. Had a good time.

Great golf course!

If you find yourself on lubbock and you love golf this is the place to be.

ThIs course was very nice. It was my first time playing here. The greens were in very good shape but the rate of play was extremely slow. There were two groups in front of us but the course Marshall was fixed on our group. He was extremely rude and kept wanting us to hit into the group in front of us. I knew that the possibility of hitting the group in front of us was highly possible. So I refused he didn't like that. He kept hanging around making the enjoyment of playing less and less. I caught up to the group in front of us for a moment and the next group said the Marshall was rude to them as well. I liked the course allot but due to the extremely rude staff I will not be returning for awhile. That's sad because golf now has this course for a great price.

I went to Lubbock to visit a buddy of mine with the intent to play this course. He has lived there for a couple of years and had not played the course yet. We played on a Tuesday afternoon and as soon as we pulled up, I knew that we were in for a treat. The course was in great shape, from tee box to green. We played from the tips and some of the holes were pretty challenging. STAY OUT OF THE ROUGH !f at all possible, stay in the short grass because the rough is thick. I think they are getting ready for a tournament and it is thick. we liked it so much that we went back the next day and played it again. We moved up a tee and it played a little shorter and we scored a little better after knowing the course a little better. Make sure that you stop in the bar/grill after your round, very nice area with a great Angus burger ! If you are near Lubbock play this course !

Had a great time on a beautiful course! The roughs are very grown and hard to find your ball in is my only complaint.

The course was in amazing shape. Fairways, greens, and tee boxes were excellent!

Great course and facilities, birdies are hard to come by but even more satisfying when one drops in on this course!

course was great and only complaint is lack of water on the course and the lack of refreshment carts on a day like Every day in Lubbock Texas.

very nice links like course in great condition...bent grass greens in Lubbock..who'd thought ? Greens smooth quick. Only negative was pace but it was huge. Waited every shot from 6th tee on. On par 5 9th we were the FIFTH group on the hole , 3 groups on the tee box. The marshall came out on 14 (WAY too late) and did nothing. Back nine took 3 hours. I will not come back unless I hear they are enforcing a reasonable pace. Pebble Beach can take 3 hours/ 9 but not a course in Lubbock !

The Rawls, in July 2014, is in the best shape I've seen it. New clubhouse. New sand (real, fluffy sand) replaced the old "native" sand in the bunkers, and the course has become dramatically harder because of it. Recent rains have at least temporarily broken the three-year drought, and the fairways and greens are thankful. This is true links-style play, molded and shaped from a tabletop flat piece of cotton field into a rolling, lake-filled, tree-lined beauty.

Depending in the prevailing winds that day, your distances in approach shots can vary by tens of yards, landing you in these newly resanded traps with surprising regularity. To top it off, the rough is being grown out for the 2015 NCAA regionals, and any stray ball will be severely punished--if it can be found.

With that said, this course is very fair. The fairways are wide. The greens are large and roll true. Players who can hit them in regulation will score well. Players that can't won't. The last four holes are the toughest I've played, but they are true risk/reward holes that can make (or usually break) your round.

Make good decisions and have fun--this is a stellar course.

What a thrill to play a course with challenge for a change!! Makes the home town course look easy! A range finder is most helpful, but what fun it was!!
You have to give this course a try to truly appreciate it.
Looking forward to going back!

This course offered a challenge but was still playable for an amateur golfer. The greens were very readable while still having quite a bit of undulations. The sand traps were FANTASTIC. Playing in West Texas sand traps are usually like playing on asphalt but these were soft traps and actually fun to play out of. (All 5000 of them). On the downside though, the roughs were a bit too rough for a public course. Overall, a great time on a great course.

The course was in great shape. Everyone was super nice. If I had one thing that would have made it better it would to have had a starter.

Great deal on golfnow. They just redid all of their bunkers and the course is in great shape after all the rain.

What a course! The fairways, the greens, the staff all top notch. Chance in the Pro Shop was extremely professional and helpful. This course in my opinion ranks in the top 10 in it's current condition. I live in Dallas and brining my son friend to play the course again. The course is getting ready for a LPGA tourney next year and I am pretty sure no one will be disappointed in the challenge to beat this course.

After it had rained all night and up to an hr before tee time. The course still played tough. The sun came out & dried the greens fairly quickly. It was cart path only for the round. Which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It forced us to make better shots. All in all. A great calm day for golf. And a challenge as always.

Course is in great shape considering drought conditions. Staff very friendly. Greens are rolling perfect and challenging with undulations.

The Rawls Course is one of the best overall public courses that I have played in Texas. The course conditions were excellent, and the rough they have there is unlike anything I have ever played in regard to the different types of lies you can get out of it. The course is wide open, yet you cannot just rip driver every hole in hopes that you'll have a line to the green. I found myself in a few of the bunkers that line the course, and they were very well taken care of. The greens rolled true and with a little bit of speed that is not usually seen on public courses. Luckily I did not play on a day with much wind, but I can see how this could be a totally different golf course with a traditional Lubbock wind blowing across the open layout. The value of this course is excellent, and the clubhouse is top of the line for a public course.

The only thing I would like to have seen in better condition is the practice facilities. The range balls could us an update and the chipping and pitching area is sort of just there. The practice putting green is excellent though. Overall, I would play this course everyday of the week and twice on Sundays.

Excellent for the playing different types of courses.