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3.7
287 Reviews (287)
5 Stars
60
4 Stars
128
3 Stars
65
2 Stars
19
1 Stars
15
Conditions
3.4
Value
3.9
Layout
3.8
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.4
82.6%
Recommend this course
235 out of 287 reviews
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Average Rating
Avg Rating
3.9
33 Reviews (33)
5 Stars
8
4 Stars
18
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
1
Conditions
3.5
Value
4.1
Layout
4.0
Pace
4.1
Amenities
3.7
StaffFriendliness
4.3
93.9%
Recommend this course
31 out of 33 reviews
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3.9
77 Reviews (77)
5 Stars
20
4 Stars
34
3 Stars
17
2 Stars
5
1 Stars
1
Conditions
3.5
Value
4.0
Layout
3.8
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.6
StaffFriendliness
4.2
88.3%
Recommend this course
68 out of 77 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Par 72
Length 6628 yards
Slope 117
Rating 70.6
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Course Details

Year Built 1954
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Steve Timm (2008) William P. Bell (1954)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $10 - $15
Clubs Yes
Pull-carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper attire is required.

Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities

Reviews

3.7
287 Reviews (287)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 10
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 6
This course/club is great for:
Locals 13
Walkers 13
Seniors 9
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 14

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Played On
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Typical Muni

This is good average golf. A number of bunkers need conditioning and sand. There are some bare spots near some of the greens. Course is in much better shape than it used to be years ago. Good value for seniors and twilight players. Pace of play is usually pretty good.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 35
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Solid public course

Solid course, with good greens and decent fairways......Flat and straightforward design.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Fantastic public course

Conditions were solid. One bunker wasn’t great but super wide course and greens were great. Definitely coming here again.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 32
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Worst shape I’ve seen this course in

Have played here 4-5 times over the past couple years. Usually in good shape. NOT today! Rough was ridiculously long - spent way too much time looking for balls just a few yards off the fairway, and lost a couple even though we saw right where they landed. Greens were fast, as always - but didn’t roll true, lots of “wobbling”.

Pace of play here is pretty much always bad, but get worse each time we play here. A full five hours today, waiting on nearly every shot! No rangers moving anyone along, no beverage cart slowing people down. I get that people want to walk the course, but if you choose to do that keep a decent pace. So much for the reminders on clubhouse signs to “play well, and play fast”!

Love the layout, but not sure we’ll be back. Five hours for a round of golf is ridiculous.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 36
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Getting by

The course is recovering from the recent rains. There are spots in one fairway (par 5 on the back) that has sand bags and roped off areas. Dummies in carts have still driven on and damaged the course. Looks like they are letting the grass fill on because even while in the fairway, on many holes, you were in a first cut type lie. No big deal, it’s a muni and they’re letting it fill in more before a cut (at least it seems to me). Greens were medium and rolling pretty good. One bunker I found had decent sand. Tee boxes fair. Pace of play good once the foursome in front of us left. The 80 year old guy in my group asked them to please pick up pace on the fourth hole since it was wide open and the dude took it personal and responded with “Don’t tell me how to play my golf.” Sums up the attitude of many new to the game players imo: entitled and inconsiderate. Played 14 holes in about 3 hours which is decent with a 3:10 time on a Friday.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Easy and bad fairways

Is a nice layout and really need better fairways, the weather is not the cause. This is poor work on the fairways, extremely bad. Good greens and challenging. The course is wide and easy to use your drive in every single hole. Carts are excellent and the pace is very good. Just work on the fairways.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Wet weather
Walked

Easy course

Easy course. Straight fairways. No elevation. Good track for beginners.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Fun on the Course

Perfect weather !!!! good group of players!!! good times !!!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 36
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Rain good

It had rained the day before or morning a bit, I don’t recall. But I had a one pm time and finished just before five on a Sunday! That’s unheard of. This is in part to only walkers being on the course and some cognizant of pace of play. Granted we still waited on half the holes for the group in front but no carts kept many players away. Wish this was the case more often.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 30
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Very enjoyable

I’m a 18 handicap and this is the.Pervert course for me.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 19
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

My go to place

Been playing it for years and it’s in great condition right now, so is Woodley

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

First time here.

First time playing here after finding it on a Golf Now deal. Relatively flat and wide course. Greens are smallish to increase the difficulty a bit, but rolling nice. Played with 3 random, but friendly players. It’s a 30min without traffic drive for me, so I’d play here again, but it wouldn’t be tops on my list. Decent muni to get your golf fix. Worse part was the slow pace, finished the round in 4:45 on a Thursday starting at 10:30am, which was a bit surprising.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Average golfer on average course

Course is good for the money. Difficult to get on though. . Staff barely speaks to a certain kind of person but carries on full conversations with others who “look the part” holding up the line at times.. hole 3 has been under construction for over two weeks and food cart is as down.. so at hole 10 if your hungry or need a drink your assed out because cafeteria is too far away to stop get a drink or anything for that matter. For the rate it’s a decent course however I think sometimes staff can get to comfortable with that thought.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart
Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 30
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 35
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great conditions

The only negative today was the slow groups that were in front of us. The greens were in excellent conditions..

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 17
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

great day

front 9 rusty and off back 9 best ever 2 birdies , 2 bogies 5 pars = 36 waiting for the weather to get back!!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 137
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Used cart

Hit and miss

tees and fairways have seen better days...

greens and complexes around the greens were the saving grace

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

A little help would have been nice

It was my first time playing your course. It was a beautiful day, everything was great. But then my cart light went in and the group I was playing with helped my send a message for a replacement. The group left at the ninth whole and I was just me: my cart replacement didn’t show up. I play two more holes and still no new cart. I send a message from the cart again and again no one send a replacement cart. I was out in the 13th fairway, it was getting dark and I was a women alone. I didn’t finish playing out of fear and my cart dying. The lack of concern or compensation was very disappointing. Not sure I will return.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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