Willow Crest Golf Club

Like the layout and tees and greens. Traps were horrible. Almost impossible to play out of. Fix those and I will be back for sure.

Greens rolled very nicely. Bunkers need a lot of work, most like a rock and almost unplayable. Otherwise in good condition.

Course was in very good shape for this early in the season.

The only drawback was there was no water on the course for drinking nor was there a beverage cart. This could have been due to the early open??

I had a 10:00am tee time, and it took over 2 1/2 hours to complete the front 9. A big part of the issue is that they were letting groups off every 9 minutes. There was a ranger that came by on a couple of occasions to ask about pace of play, even suggesting that we go back and play the first few holes again. When we finally finished the front nine, we decided to play the front nine again, since most of the groups were stalled in the back nine. It should not take longer than 2 hrs and 15 minutes to play each side of a course. And that’s assuming all the groups are foursomes. It was very frustrating and disappointing to say the least.

The course itself is pretty nice nothing stunning but very good for the area. Pace of play was the worst ever and shouldn’t be that poor. 3 separate groups playing 1 hole and it takes me and a buddy 45 minutes to play the 10th and 11th hole. We drive up to the 12th tee box and there is two separate foursomes sitting waiting to tee off. If the pace of play was even semi-normal it would’ve been a much better experience.

I decided to take my mother golfing and wanted a nice course to take her to. I paid $80 each person. There was no sand in any of the traps just solid clay. The greens were all beat up terrible condition. It was awful. I played really well, but will not return, it was like I was playing a $20 golf course and nobody was maintaining anything except cutting the grass

For a course that charges as high as most others in the area this was by far the worst course around. Mud pits where sand should be. Not a ranger in site for a 5.5 hour round. Avoid at all costs

Pace of play was good on the front but waited on every shot on the back 9. Course is narrow, greens and tee boxes are not in great shape. Do not play it out of the bunkers, no sand

This was a shame, heard this course was great in its heyday.. it’s a resort course we get on the first tee box the starter says “there’s some standing water in the bunkers” so I’m thinking ok a little bit of water in a few bunkers... every bunker was literally flooded, so every time you hit a bunker you lose your ball. Just absolutely frustrating, I mean green side bunker and you lose a ball, that’s a joke on a golf course. Not to mention tee boxes were all jacked up with divots, greens had craters from jerks not fixing their plugs, it was bad. Then it’s hot as can be and I had to call the clubhouse to send the cart girl to use on the 8th hole, just ridiculous. Other than that staff was nice but that doesn’t justify $76 or make up for how bad of shape tees & greens were.. heard they’re going under blah blah it’s a shame when courses are this bad when you go out to play some competitive golf with a buddy.

This course is what you get when you combine a championship layout with no maintenance and lousy clientele. The bunkers are an important part of the layout, and they are all hard pan dirt. Greens are trashed because the weekend resort morons playing 5-6 hours rounds don't fix their pitch marks. Tucked pin locations on busy Saturdays make no sense when I have to short side out of dirt bunkers. All for the low low price of $80!

Pay the few dollars more and play seven bridges or preserves. Or save $30 and play at plenty of courses that are at least somewhat maintained..

For the cost of the course I would expect them to take better care of the bunkers. Everything else was pretty good. But the sand needs major attention.