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Pretty terrible experience all around. Range and putting green is overrun with junior golfers and hotel guests just hanging out. Make you pay for range balls even though the round is $100+. It took 5 hours and 15 mins to finish and our cart died on the 17th because they had so many groups going out that they didn’t have time to charge the carts between rounds. Zero food options for grab and go, and the cart girl only has chips and candy. Lastly, the layout and condition are average at best. There are much better options in Miami

Crystal has always been my favorite course. It’s challenging, but scorable for good players. Unfortunately, ownership has shifted all attention to catering to the “resort” crowd and therefore ignored the normal needs of your weekend golfer. Rates are extraordinarily high, pace of play was 5 hours, tee boxes were all ripped up, staff was focused on guests of the resort, not the golf course. There were no range ball available before the range, the machine was just empty and no staff seemed to care. What a horrible experience.. We stood around and waited on every shot we hit.

Staff kept us off the course after a thunderstorm cell rolled through. Thunderstorm was done and gone through the area, and sunny skies were out. They made us wait about 75 minutes after the sun came out before they allowed us to get back on the course. It was 5:30 at the time the storm came through and was gone by 6pm. The staff just wanted to go home and not let anybody back out on the course. Pretty unreal. Lack of common sense applied. Won’t be back which is a shame because it’s a nice course. The photos show the time after the storm when we still weren’t allowed back out. I understand safety, but this was stupidity.