Royal/Sabal at Grand Palms Golf & Country Club

I used to play here often during COVID, and I really enjoyed it. However, on Friday, April 1st, 2024, I brought a colleague from Spain, driving from South Miami based on the fond memories I had. Unfortunately, I was deeply disappointed. This has become, by far, the worst golf course I've ever played on. I'm accustomed to playing on average courses like Killian Greens, Palmetto, Briar Bay, and Redlands, but even those seem like PGA courses compared to Grand Palms. After finishing the first 9 holes, I inquired with the starter about which of the last 9 holes to play, considering the initial ones were in poor shape. I was told those first 9 were actually the best of the three courses they have.

Upon completing the game, we voiced our concerns about the conditions and were offered coins for the range as compensation. Once home, I compared pictures from my visits in 2021 and 2022, and the decline in quality was stark. I reached out to the manager hoping for at least a partial refund, but was refused. I even suggested updating their website to reflect the current conditions to prevent misleading other golfers, but my suggestion was ignored

This course is old and tired. Greens in very poor condition. Fairway grass is sparse as well. If you want a cheap round and want to play quickly, this is the course for you if conditions of the course don’t matter.

This course is absolutely horrendous. If you think the tee boxes are bad, wait till you see the fairways. If you think the fairways are bad, wait till you see the greens. Actually, calling them greens is a huge stretch. Do yourself a favor, spend a little more and play ANYWHERE ELSE.

I've played Grand Palms several times in the past and was looking forward to this round. Unfortunately, the condition of the course, especially the greens, was poor and the fairways were not a lot better. We played both the Royal and the Sabal courses and the Royal was far worse than the Sabal. I feel they should close the Royal course until the greenskeepers can bring the course to an acceptable level

Greens were in real bad shape. Change over after 9
Holes needs to be protected. We had to play same 9 twice (they have 3 nines).

Greens are neglected. Courses overall continue to degrade. Paying anything over $35 a round is robbery.

The 18 greens in these two 9-hole courses are in terrible shape. They have big portions of it with no grass and just dirt and the parts that do have grads are full of grass sprouts that are not the type you expect on a putting green. Needless to say that despite having a good game, putting was made more difficult by these conditions.
The 19th Hole was managed by a lady that does noy like her job or is in a bad mood and poor manners. Not only that, on a Friday, she closed the bar and left around 3 pm, when the course closes at 6 pm and there were a lot of players still in the course.
I paid high season prices (green fee) and did not get a good return for it.

Great round of golf at a great price! Played the Sanabal and Grand courses.

Course was fine however no direction on cards to tell you where the next hold is. Secondly several holes they were conducting maintenance while we were playing the hole

This is the worst course I've played in memory.

From start to finish it's in shockingly poor condition...garbage all over the place, fungus or damage on 100% of the greens, weeds everywhere and absolutely zero course maintenance evident. We even saw an employee drive a cart across the tee box on one of the holes. Based on the layout I imagine it was a gem at some point but I wouldn't put even a day 1 beginner player on this dog track.

And to whoever gave this place a good review recently I highly suspect you're affiliated in some way with this dump...very uncool to do that to fellow golfers.

the $58 fee was approx. $58 too much.

and I almost forgot, the girl in the restaurant was rude and unfriendly. No food available beyond snacks to start (way overpriced for beer and snacks) and, at the turn, they only had 2 hotdogs left...this place screamed "we don't care"