Lives
Dallas, TX
Handicap
5-9
Gender
Male
Skill
Advanced
Plays
Once a week

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2.0
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Total 2 Reviews

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First Review
09/25/2019
Last Review
07/27/2021

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Woodbridge Golf Club

Played On 07/23/2021
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

A Local Jem Now Almost Completely Ruined

This course use to be my favorite public course in the area. Even at a relatively lower cost, it was a better course than most of the competition in the area. And then the new owners took over in mid-2021 and things have gone downhill very quickly. It’s hard to know where to start with everything that they’ve messed up, but here’s a list of what comes to mind:

-Removed GPS from the carts – This was one of the few public courses with GPS, but now it’s just like all the rest;
-Cut down numerous trees that were part of the beauty and strategy for the hole: Holes 5, 8 and 17 to name a few;
-Removed a number of fairway bunkers on several holes that were part of the hole strategy—now there are just giant glassy depressions leftover instead of leveling the land;
-Pace of play is RIDICULOUSLY slow! I mean like Pecan Hollow 5 ½ hour per round slow. And that’s saying something;
-Raised the rates—Despite the removing of GPS and the removing of so many bunkers, which cost a lot to maintain, they actually RAISED the rates. They didn’t do it as bad as Plantation, Twin Creeks and Buffalo Creek as far as their new ridiculously high rates, but taking measures that cut upkeep costs should result in decreasing rates, not increasing them.
-And then the staff argued with me when I had several of the old range tokens leftover that I previously bought and wanted to exchange since they removed the token machine. They take my money but won't honor the tokens they sold me???

So the obvious guess is that the course was altered so horribly in order to save upkeep costs, and then numerous more tee times were added, both of which are decisions made to increase revenues. It’s a business and that makes sense, except that the way they did it here has seriously damaged the overall experience. My golfing group plays once per week, and Woodbridge was our place at least once or twice a month, but now I’m not sure if I’ll even play it once or twice a year now, and then only if I have no other choice. Hopefully the fools that have screwed up Woodbridge will read enough of these reviews and try to correct some of their horrible errors.

PS: Since a lot of people like me buy multiple range tokens at one time so that we don't have to go to the pro shop every time we go to the range, you should honor those tokens even once you removed the token machine. Firewheel did this and you should too.

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

Mesquite Golf Course

Played On 09/13/2019
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Staff Attitude and Course Set Up Ruin What Could Be a Great Course

The layout of this course is completely fine, but the greens are extremely fast. Faster than most country club courses I've played, which is a lot, but that is also completely fine as it’s great to see such greens at a public course. What ruins it is that the greens are very hilly, which in itself is also fine, but they choose to cut the holes on the inclines of those hills on almost every hole. This means anything but a straight uphill putt unfairly rolls yards away from the hole, turning most of your GIRs into 3-putt bogeys as putts would arc up a sidehill and then coast twice as far from the hole on the other side. I do note I played a charity tournament here the very next day and it was the first time I had seen all the holes cut on flat portions of the greens, and my guess is they wanted participants to enjoy the course and maybe come back in the future, so they didn’t want to frustrate them with the usual ridiculous hole placements.

But the worst thing about this course is the staff. They treat players like they would rather not have them touch their course at all. They have marshals patrolling every hole, which is very uncomfortable as they stalk you during your round, and rather than hiding while you hit, they stop in your line-of-sight and watch you closely. They also drive up on you while you’re on the teebox addressing the ball, which is one of the rudest thing anyone can do on a course. They also tell you not to drive the cart on most of the rough to find/play your ball, especially between any trees, which is frankly where you need your cart the most to both find your ball and decide your recovery shot. You also cannot drive your cart to the practice chipping area, which is not very close at all to the clubhouse and which allowing would not interfere with anything at all. But by far the most ridiculous thing we experienced was being lectured on how we were supposed to pick up a ball out of a hole! Note there are an excessive amount of unrepaired ballmarks from the golfers too special to repair their mark, but never a mention from the marshal-per-hole stalking each group for these selfish jerks to repair damage they caused.

Although I’ve played here many times, the treatment by the staff in both their unnecessary lecturing of ridiculous rules and their continuous stalking of each group is too distracting to want to return to this course any more. The entire round you are too distracted by wondering if you’re breaking yet another unwritten made up rule, which you’re about to be called on by the stalker following you before each shot, than to enjoy your round.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
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