Lives
Garland TX
Handicap
15-19
Age
65+
Gender
Male
Skill
Advanced
Plays
A few times a week

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Average Rating

3.1
3.1
Total 10 Reviews

Rating Breakdown

10 Reviews
5 Stars
2
4 Stars
0
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
0
Recommended Courses
6
Not Recommended Courses
4
Helpful Votes Count
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First Review
07/18/2017
Last Review
09/09/2020

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Mesquite Golf Course

Played On 09/09/2020
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

The course is in FANTASTIC condition

The course is in FANTASTIC condition.
Tee boxes are grassy and level.
Fairways are lush and mowed to a playable height.
Greens are in tournament shape, a little faster than most.
Staff were extremely courteous and helpful.

This may be the best course in the Metroplex right now.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Tangle Ridge Golf Club

Played On 07/31/2020
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Course Temps You to Swing Away, but Don't Do IT

Very wide (maybe 70-100yards) fairways on almost every hole. If you swing away, that's when it gets you with its many grass bunkers and several dozen sand traps. I counted a dozen around the greens on many holes. Many Par 4's are straight. Some are under 350 yards. So you need to keep the ball in the fairway or your score will balloon. Greens were lush but putt very slow. You need to read the grain esp. on longer putts. The grain can make you look really bad and 3-puts do not help your score. "Lag and brag" is a much better strategy.

After I followed my own advice, I played 7 shots better on the back nine, won 6 skins, and took the Nassau back and total. Nice.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 08/18/2020

Your feedback is important to us, g30b330. Thank you for sharing your 5-star experience. We look forward to seeing you again at the course soon! Thanks for choosing Tangle Ridge Golf Club. Nice job on those skins!

Old at Firewheel Golf Park

Played On 08/21/2018
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Does Sgt. Schultz now work at Firewheel? “I see nothing.”

The Olde course is now more fun for playing a relaxing round because tee and approach shots are much less demanding since they pruned back some of the trees that made tee and approach shots narrow. It is now a basic “olde” time WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) layout. The rolling greens are demand formidable putting skills to get your par now that you can hit the green in regulation.

Firewheel still has a huge issue that has been there since I first played it 20 years ago. A local crowd of “good olde boys” schedule blocks of adjacent tee times to play multi-group matches that slow down play. For example, on Thursday August 21, our tee time was right behind such a group. Our twosome sat patiently behind them on every tee box and in every fairway knowing the last group would not let us through since they wanted to be together. I am OK with that.

At the turn, the front group delayed teeing off, so they could compare scores and bet outcomes. I am OK with that.

But the front group was now at least 3 holes behind – you can see 10, 11 and 12 for threw 10 tee – and they did not eve offer to let us go through. So, we went to the 16 tee nearby and played 16, 17 and 18 and came back to 10. The lead group was now in the middle of 11 fairway. We had played 3 holes to their 1 ½.
The foursome on 10 tee told us they had been told to do the same thing by another group that was also being held up and they did.
We joined up with another twosome and played 10 an 11 before we caught up with the herd on 12 box. Yep, our foursome played two holes while they played one.
The math said it would take us twice as long to play 12, 13, 14, and 15 behind these groups which would put our round at OVER 5 hours. So, we left.

Course management knows about all of this and lets it go on anyway. They booked the tee times. There was no marshal. They could observe firsthand from the windows how long it took then to get to 9. The could see the hold up on 10 box.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Difficulty Fairly Easy

Duck Creek Golf Course

Played On 08/03/2018
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

This is the course if you want play fast

++ Played fast, the course was almost empty
+ Greens are generally good
- No water on fairways makes them bare and hard expect within 25 yards of greens
- - Many bare spots in play R or L of fairways
- Teeboxes are rutted with divots and uneven lies
- - Mens toilets have feces on seats, womens toilets are unclean.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Duck Creek Golf Course

Played On 07/10/2018
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

No Water, No Grass, No Value

Duck Creek is a great layout. Water and OB make most holes challenging, but so many holes are fun to play despite this. Current ownership has made changes that make the course more playable and friendlier to all golfers -- fewer traps, shorter holes, etc.

Pace of play is excellent. There is nobody in the course most of the time.

But this a great course visibly going downhill fast.

During the severe drought over the last 2 months, this course has only watered around the greens maybe twice a week and water some parts of the fairways in spots maybe once a week at most. As a result, the fairways that were very playable 2 months ago, are almost 80%-90% brown and bare making them playable only to the most experienced and more expert golfers. Several more trees have fallen over or split open. The course is losing a lot of them.

There are other problems resulting from neglecting basic maintenance needs. Tee boxes are poorly maintained. The carts are poorly maintained and are well past their expected usable lifetime. The cart trails are uneven and bumpy from cracks and neglected repairs. Both restrooms are filthy.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Warning: Course design turns an 80 into a 90 very easily

Firewheel Bridges has 3 9-hole layouts.

We were required to play the Champions and Bridges courses, which seem to be the standard options most of the time.

The Champions is the better course, but both are built in a creek bed area that requires most of the greens to be severely elevated with steep sides, to protect them when the creek floods. Hitting and holding the greens pretty well determines whether you break 90 since missing a green by less than 2 feet can cause your ball to run down the very steep hill, sometimes into a hazard, but on all occasions leaving you a blind, 20-yard, uphill lie for your chip shot.

As an amateur, I hit about 50% of greens on a good day and, like about 90% of 10-15 handicap golfers, I rely on chipping to when I miss a green to keep me close to my handicap and stay with the lower handicap players in my group.

The severely sloped greens significantly lowered my enjoyment of playing these courses. You may want to consider this feature before you play here.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging

Old at Firewheel Golf Park

Played On 04/30/2018
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Bare-ly Playable

Grass on the fairways is maintained so close to the dirt that there are no good lies. Oddly, grass on the greens is too long making putts frustrating due to the lack of "rollout." I have played this course for over 20 years. The layout is a classic WYSIWYG. No gimmicks. Just golf. Hit the drive. Hit the approach. Make the putts. But close cropped lies in the fairways and shaggy greens change the physics of the game. Watering and regular maintenance would change all this.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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Commented on 05/02/2018

All 4 players I played with reported that ALL the sand traps were hard pan and filled with more dirt than sand. The "bounce" on the bottom of a sand wedge is NOT supposed to bounce. It is supposed to guide the shot.

Duck Creek Golf Course

Played On 03/06/2018
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Cold weather
Used cart

The 2017 winter was brutal on all courses around this area. This course had not recovered. Duck Creek overflowed several times making the fairways muddy and lies very tight. It is easy to chuck every shot "fat." Many bare areas where ponding killed the grass. Greens are slower than usual. Many tee boxes slant (are not level) and are bare / divot ridden due to not be maintained. Many muddy bare areas near fairways are really hazards. Course owner is not investing in this course. Carts are slow, unreliable, and poorly maintained. Let's hope the superintendent gets enough money to put it back together by April. There is a great course to play, but the scars of neglect make it almost unplayable right now.

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Bear Creek Golf Club - West Course

Played On 08/22/2017
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Good has its downsides

I played Bear Creek West 8/22/17 with an off-duty course marshal. Bear Creek is ALWAYS CROWDED. Pace of play is ALWAYS an issue. Both layouts are difficult for anyone with a handicap higher than 18. Why? For example, 5 of the first 6 holes on the West course have blind tee shots and some have uphill approach shots. This means you cannot see where your ball lands, even in the fairway and especially if it has any cut/slice or fad/hook. Fairways are relatively tight. This topological feature really slows down play. Both of us lost TWO balls on drives that went over a fairway hill and we never found them. mostly because we never saw where then landed or how they rolled. And there were several balls from a parallel fairway that complicated pace of play. We waited on every tee box 5 to 10 minutes mostly due to the slow pace of play caused by the same factors affecting the groups ahead. I saw a lot of people abandoning balls ahead of me. Although I had to wait all day, I felt "crowded" and "pushed" all day too. I had good company but I never felt relaxed or happy about playing golf that day. I can only remember a very few time in my well over 3,000 rounds I felt that way.

However, either Bear Creek course is a great course to play. They are in excellent condition, except for dried-up water hazards due to recent droughts. I have loved this course for almost 40 years. This is a great set of courses, but as Yogi said, "no one goes there anymore it's too crowded." So it is with Bear Creek.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging

Buffalo Creek Golf Club

Played On 07/17/2017
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Not crowded for a reason

+++ Free unlimited range balls.
+++ Check in was great.
+++ Course layout has many good holes
++ Serviced at turn was great.
+ We saw only one other golfer from 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM.

- - - Sand traps were unplayable. Shallow sand. Not maintained. Unraked. Not just one every now and then, but all we observed on the course.
- - Greens were bumpy and slow. Had been recently sanded.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
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