Esplanade Golf & Country Club at Lakewood Ranch

This is a fun course, forgiving, very good conditions but The greens are too slow. We will be back but for the price the greens could be better. Staff is excellent!

This course was fine but surrounded by houses and at times, construction. The pace of play was slow but it’s probably because of playin on Sunday. The greens were actually slower than they looked but for the most part they were in good shape. They put the tee times too close together and it took around four and a half hours, again don’t play on Sunday. For some reason there’s no GPS in the carts so beware...

Great greens good layout.
A little slow pace. Very nice 197h hole.

While I don’t normally pay this much to play a round, it was a nice treat. Exquisitely maintained and a good test of all aspects of the game. Some greens were on the smallish size, and some huge, but all required a good read and a deft touch. The greens were a lot slower than they looked, requiring some adjustment in thinking. The foursome ahead of us kept a good pace and we were done 18 in a little over 3.5 hours. Probably on a par with the best courses in this area.

This is one of a hand full of courses in this area that are head and shoulders above all the others. The fairways are better than a lot of their greens. truly a pleasure to hit off. There are not too many places around here that play closer to courses further north that have better grass and a firmer base. I live near and have played many of the local courses. I treasure every opportunity that I can afford to play here. I will cry when this one goes private and believe me, it will soon. Thank you golfnow.

Forgiving layout, medium fast greens, very busy this time of year but always a good place to play.

Have played here several times. Always fun playing it. Challenging course, real good greens and the course has holes that you need to set up to score. I'm from up North so I enjoy playing the Bent grass course. They keep the course and surroundings beautifully manicured even though there is construction everywhere

This course is well worth the stop if you have not played here. Course is in great shape and fun to play. I definitely recommend !

The grasss in the fairways and the rough is amazing!

Esplanade is well maintained and fair to all levels of golfers. Back tees are challenging and forward tees are forgiving. Greens are well maintained and contoured to make you plan your leaves. Traps are quality sand and well maintained. Fairways are generous and well maintained as well. Water and hazards do come into play on about one third of the holes but are obvious to the player. I enjoy this course.

This course offers a nice layout with generous fairways until the last few holes. There is lots of water although it does not come into play often unless you hit your shots far offline. The greens were very fast and firm making it difficult to putt if you are above the hole. Lots of bunkers to catch errant shots. The course is somewhat typical of Florida housing developments with homes built adjacent many of he fairways. Overall, it is a nice course and they work actively to try and keep the pace of play to an acceptable level.

We played the next day following the inter club event against the southern Esplanade Golf club. The course conditions all around where outstanding. Greens very impressive and true. Well done supt.

Everything was great but the sand traps were too hard

This course is probably the most well maintained course in the area. The layout is very fair but challenging. While the green fees are high, you can’t match the quality. The practice areas are large and in very good shape. The greens and bunkers are superb as well.

This course is in very good condition and is playable for all levels of play. Greens are for the most part large so being in the correct spots on them is very important, generous fairways and pace of play was excellent, a must play!!