Sandpiper Golf Club - Lakes/Palms Course

Played here many times and love the course and sad to hear it’s closing. Played the Lakes for the first time so I feel I’ve experienced everything. Course was good compared to others around. Some of the sand bunkers were killers to get out of but that’s part of the game. Cheers to Bunkers with the cold beer and hope I get to return once again soon.

Played Palms/Oaks and enjoyed the variety of holes. Fairways were mostly good but a few were not. Greens were nice but some were tiny. Will play there again

Slow play probably due to snow birds, but conditions could have been better as well.

Played Sandpiper this morning with a threesome, and really enjoyed it.

It was my second time playing the course this season; I was there a couple of weeks ago.
Each time we played the Oaks to Lakes track for 18 holes. This time around, the Oaks front 9 was in much better shape than last time, so it was great to see the improvement. The greens were rolling pretty true and looked really healthy; same can be said for *most* of the fairway grass as well.

The Lakes back 9 was a little more rough. It looks like they let the grass grow a little much in the fairways and tee boxes-my playing partner had mentioned that they mightve been doing that.

We went out just before 7:45a, and finished at 11:15ish. We didn't have anyone pushing us the whole round, and we never waited on a group in front (except for maybe the first hole and a half if anything), so props to the starter!

Pay a little more and you’ll get a lot more elsewhere. The greens are bordering on microscopic… I think over the years they’ve lost size by the way they’re mowed smaller and smaller. Not worth $44+

Nice course with a great staff. My friends and I play there regularly.
George the starter is the best!!

The course is on pretty good condition. The greens were somewhat rough.I

Biggest complaint is that nobody seems to take bunkers.

The Pro shop couldn't have been nicer. The starter was polite and accommodating. The cart I had had issues and I had to pump the petal 4-5 times almost every time to get it to start. The fairway grass was thin at best.
My biggest issue was sand. I've played 13 courses in FL since Jan 3rd,Port Orange, Daytona Beach, Deltrona, Tampa, St Pete and so on and haven't seen this color or consistency. Needless to say without practicing in it I found it challenging.
Lastly, does the staff incourage raking the bunkers? Broken rake handles and tines missing doesn't encourage golfers to rake after a shot. Finding my ball in a footprint didn't help my game either. It happened to often for me to have a good opinion of this course.

It took over 4 hours to play because there was a foursome in front of us that didn’t let people play through and there was nobody in front of them. People behind us quit by the 16th hole because it was slow