Willow Crest Golf Club

Never a dull hole on the course. It will test your skill at any level. With all the rain the course was as green as ever. End of summer season so tee boxes and greens were a little beat up but still in good condition. Good value for the money.

This place just doesn’t care about pace of play. I’ve played here at least 5-) times this year and every time it was a disaster. They charge a crazy amount of money and you can almost always expect a 6 hour pace or run out of daylight. The doors that play this course don’t know or don’t care to replace divots, green marks - or again, maintain pace.

The one time I tried to help and moved to the back 9 then suddenly the staff started paying attention and lost their minds. There was literally no one on the back 9 and I didn’t even want to move but did to loosen things up a bit. I don’t know where the staff got their training but their ONE job is to maintain pace - but these folks are at the mercy of the tee time sheet and whatever it says.

Our GPS was non functional entire 18 holes. Grop in front of us extremely slow. Because they were part of a charity outing they were not pushed to keep pave.

Course was nice.

I booked a tee time for 4 players. One of my players got sick the day of and couldn't make it to the course. Our 4some always uses Golf Now for booking rounds. I tried to cancel him and get a refund for only his portion round. I was not allowed to do so on the Golfnow app. Wouldve been nice to at least be able to get a credit to use for a future round but that didnt happen.

Course itself in decent condition. This is a moderately difficult course with 6 par 3’s (3 long 3 short) and three of the par 5’s being in the top four handicap holes (and into a 15mph breeze). Course is tight - never heard so many “fore’s”. Tee boxes were a mess as were some of the cart paths. No driving range is a tough sell for the price.

Paying in advance is cumbersome when booking a foursome or 2 foursomes in our case. Could utilize hold for credit card and pay at the course.

In fairness to the course rainy conditions prohibited the staff from keeping the grass esp near the rough shorter. Lots of standing water on the cart path shoulders. Cart paths are not in good condition. I played w/a relative and we had a foursome in front of us playing the black tees. These guys had no business playing the black tees and did not let us play thru. No presence of a marshal on the course during our round to move things along. The staff at check in was very friendly. I have played this course before and will play it again. Infrastructure could use some monetary investment to bring up the condition. Also, no sand bottle on the cart. We can' help the conditions w/o that.

J. Wadsky

The course has a fair amount of water hazards and few narrow fairways to deal with. We played a few days after a big storm had blew by. It was still cart path only. It may explain why the grass in the rough was a bit long. Hard to spot your ball in there.

Greens are just like the practice green and the speed is very slow. My putts were always short unless I push it hard.

People on the course are nice and friendly, but don’t seem to know the term “fore”. It’s my son’s first time playing on an 18-hole course. Spoke with the group behind us ahead of time, but everyone was playing at a very relaxed pace. We had balls coming at us from nowhere half a dozen times and nobody was yelling “fore”. I know it was not from the couple behind us as they were usually 1.5 holes behind us.

Course was in great shape. I was surprised that they were affiliated with the Hilton hotel. I plan on bringing family and friends back and staying at the hotel so the kids can enjoy the pool the wives can enjoy shopping and the fellas can enjoy golfing.