Winter Park Golf Course

I love this course. Play here often. But the greens are being redone I think. There’s a temporary green just off the main green. Like it’s the fairway grass shaved shorter with a circle spray painted and the flag in the middle….

So my GF who works at a golf course heard that the grounds keeper for 3 winter park golf courses used the wrong seed for the greens and SCREWED UP BIG TIME. Costing over 5milion in damages and was fired.. now when I heard this. It made sense after what I saw at the WP9..

Normally a beautiful short 9-hole track in Winter Park. The course was closed for 2 months until yesterday and should remain closed until August as the greens were all burned by roundup. All temp greens

Greens are mostly sand, very bumpy and little actual grass

Got paired with 2 other people and wasnt super thrilled about that. Wish we could have been left to just us 2 playing. Course was good. Greens were in rough shape, but great deal.

We played 9 and it was fun open course! Greens were little rough but they were fixing them up! Open play. The staff was very friendly and the pro shop was nice! We loved the course! We walked it and it only took 2 hrs with 4 of us hitting okay

Not a lot to say other than the greens were in horrible condition. In fact, there was more sand than grass on all the greens. The only thing worse was the pace of play. I am not a super fast player, but having a 9 hole course take over 3 hours to finish is a bit on the slow side.

Apparently they have lost the greens to some sort of disease. There was some grass on them but not much with plenty of bare spots covered by some sort of grainy fertilizer and sand mix. Putting on this surface was essentially futile.

Just played around and this is gotta be the worst condition I’ve ever seen the course in and they’re charging more for nine than they have in the past. The greens were all sand that were painted green and tea boxes in bad shape. This is complete highway robbery for how much they wanna charge for terrible conditions. We even had a greens keeper mowing on our second approach shot. Took the flag down and all on four holes back to back as we’re about to hit.

I’d have to say one of my favorite things about this course are the people I’ve played with. It’s a true local, neighborhood course. EVERYONE I’ve ever played with have been so nice to play with and I’ve played with LPGA Pros to 10 year old kids learning their game with their dad. It’s a short but FUN course. The pace of play is always spot on. I’ve never been out for more than 2 hours and usually average 1:45-1:50. If you want a quick golf fix, without spending 4-5 hours off your day , head to this course, you won’t be disappointed .

Wind conditions added a degree of difficulty to our round that we found challenging. Greens had just been sanded, so were slower than normal & broke less than one would expect. Staff is always professional and very customer oriented. Love the challenge of course even though it is relatively short in total distance. Will be back for sure.