The Windermere Club

Our Greens are Back!

The intense summer heat during 2016 wasn't very good to any course that has bent grass greens, including ours. As far as the mountain areas of Hickory, North Carolina, I heard horror stories of courses that suffered from the heat stress.

The Windermere Club suffered as well, but we will continue to offer what we and many others consider the best greens to putt on. I have been an employee at the club for 16 years and this is the first time we have ever experienced the problems that hit us July through Oct.

Since the beginning of September, we have taken tremendous steps to insure that this kind of heat stress doesn't effect our course in this manner again. To do this, we have reseeded our greens with A1 Bent Grass, which is the best you can buy, and is heat tolerant and prohibits weed infestation. With the cooler temperatures and warmer days we have experienced, the greens have made a tremendous come back.

We apologize for our greens last fall, but mother nature dealt us as tough a hand as we, and many other courses, have ever experienced. Come play our great Bent Grass greens the next opportunity you have, and you too will see their true greatness and playing ability.

Bill Chandler

Head Golf Professional

The Windermere Club

My favorite course in Columbia. It is always in good condition and the layout is probably the most unique in the area. If you want to play a course that will challenge you to hit every club in your bag this is the place to do it. Highly recommend

Very challenging course and beautiful. Definitely the best course design and well maintained. The staff is very friendly and for the quality of the course you get a great deal. You won't be disappointed.

An absolute disgrace. We had 12 golfers play and they should have flat out told us the greens on the course are HORRIBLE! Not 1 or 2.....every single one of them. Play anywhere but here.

Greens have to be the worst I have played on in years - fungus and dead patches everywhere. Traps full of weeds, fairways dry and rough = jungle. This used to be a nice course but it has been let go badly.

This course use to be a great place to play but it has fallen off of the radar for me. Greens are terrible with crab grass and dirt overtaking them. The tee boxes lack sufficient grass and the fairways and rough haven't been cut in a week. This course has a good layout but no upkeep. I will never be back.

It had been a few years since I had played here but loved it then. The layout is really nice but the conditions had gone from great to average at best. They have bent grass greens but crab grass is everywhere throughout every green which does hurt your putting. I really loved playing here years ago but will not go back in the near future. This was once an upscale club but times have changed. It is more like an average municipal course with country club prices. The staff was extremely friendly and nice. I just can't recommend it now based on the price vs the shape it is in.

On the green there is a lot of weeds

Windermere has always been one of my favorite golf courses to play, not anymore. I love the layout and especially loved the greens. Some where in the last year they have pretty much lost the greens. The fairways were the only part of the course that were up to what I thought were Windermere standards. The people in the club house were nice and the pace of play was good.

Course is in very bad shape. Call before booking.

I love playing this course. I love the layout.

I played this course earlier this summer and everything was fantastic.

After how it has been i expected to see some spots on the green that were burned out. What i didn't expect to see is the green full of weeds. It definitely played a roll in putting. Hopefully they will get this fixed. I will give the course another shot in a few months to see what its like.

Still worth playing but the greens make it not a must play right now

The staff were extremely courtious and explained the layout quite well. This course has outstanding fairway grass, but some greens were about average. The layout is great, and the course has some extremely challenging setups. Highly recommended to any who wants a challenge.

Beyond ZERO customer service from the guy in the clubhouse, and a five hour round on a busy Masters weekend, the golf course itself is worth playing again and again. The front nine sort of slowly warms you up, and then you get to the back nine and HELLO! They saved the best for last. I'd come back just to play that back nine and finishing holes again and again. Course was in superb shape, and due to the season, there were a ton of azaleas in full bloom that looked better then what they have at Augusta National (which I saw in person the next day to compare) . Both par 3's on the back require long carries over water, which is a lot of fun, and the finishing 18th hole is a spectacular par 5 with a lake running the entire length of the left side to finish at the picturesque clubhouse overlooking the lake. The greens were in fantastic shape (oh, if I could only putt). Definitely a great deal at $32. I'd definitely play it again on a non-Masters weekend for hopefully a better pace of play.

This course could be a gem. Great Dye design. Beautiful water holes. Tight challenging fairways. Intriguing clubhouse. However, it needs a lot of TLC. This course has been lapped by its competitors both next door at Columbia Country Club and down the road at Cobblestone - which is the best course in the area.

This course could be a great play. However, it likely should merge with Columbia Country Club and have its club house replace the 1970s shack of theirs.

The reason I did not like the round other than the conditions was the design was just brash - lots of blind shots and without having played the course before, it was tough to discern doglegs due to the fairways and rough blending together.

I will likely give the track another chance. However, I'll wait for better reviews.

Long time player first time reviewer.. Can't say enough about the course, greens were phenomenal (Jim Rome voice)! The course was a little soggy and was restricted to cart path only, also there was a five some on the back nine holding everyone up. It didn't stop me from lighting up the course.

Considering all the flooding we have had the course while waterlogged, played true and the greens were great given the pre-conceived notions. Pro shop staff a bit short but cart guys arriving and finishing were spot on and polite. Grill staff was very polite and helpful. Love this course and layout. Look forward to when it dries out.

Its a great track but the greens needed some attention. Other than that course was nice.

need to buy some lawn mowers fairways and greens cut nothing else was. pro charged me $4 for range balls when i got to range with my buddies and other group they hit balls for free one large bin at teeing area. wheni got back to pro shop i was going to ask for a refund but pro stayed on phone 15 mins so i left. nice overall layout but once u get off fairway its a jungle. bunkers had grass growing in them very poor. pace of play was good no one was out there. im sure at one time it was a nice course but its been awhile

99 degrees and so hot only played 14 because got fatigued from the heat. Course was in great shape and staff was great. Would love to play again on a cooler day or time!

The course is challenging, but a lot of fun. Numer 9 is one of the toughest par 3's. Cart paths in pretty bad shape.