Ocala National at Golden Hills Country Club

Couldn’t find my ball even in the first cut. If you don’t hit fairways be prepared to lose balls.

When I played here there was evidently a problem with the mowing equipment that mowed the rough areas. If you hit your ballin the ruff I guarantee you you would not find it. I understand that the golf course is doing all they can to get their equipment replaced, I don’t hold this against the course. This Facility is usually near perfect This is merely a review of my last time playing, normally this course is a five star course

Spent too much time finding golf balls off the fairways. Our foursome had about 30% when all hit the fairways which are wide but when you missed the fairway the rough was really rough. You had to just about walk the area where you ball landed and hope you find the ball with your feet. One par 3 had rough deep enough to loose a ball and the ball landed within 25 feet of the green. Now part of the reason course conditions were what they were could be due to amount rain that we have had during the recent weeks. The greens are in great shape as they always are.

Only problem with pace of play and course conditions was the weather. Rained all day and had been a rainy week

Needs cutting everywhere especially the second hole .. the fairway was so overgrown there was almost no fairway at all. They said that three of their lawn mowers were broken .. it looks like it. I lost 5 balls within 5 feet of where the fairway should have been .. I have to admit that the greens were very nice and in it’s prime it must have been a beautiful course .. I loved the layout of the course itself, nice design, challenging.

Terrible shape. Tee boxes and rough haven't been mowed in weeks. Fairways full of weeds. Wondered if the course is going out of business.

Been playing this course for years and this is the worst I have ever seen it. Looks like it hasn’t been mowed in a month. If your ball is anywhere off of the fairway it’s in a foot tall grass. Greens were pretty good however.

Beautiful course, just needs mowing. Greens nice, fairways average, around greens, primary and secondary ruff out of control. Hopefully will be back soon.

MJE

I'm an eight handicap and I lost 14 balls today. The course is not maintained whatsoever and if you were to win off of the Fairway you lose your ball because they haven't caught the rough or Fairways in weeks. I want a refund I will be calling GolfNow for it. There's a burnt up tractor on the 10th Fairway. It was ridiculous

Terrible shape! Greens r good but everything else is bad. The rough just outside the fairways is knee high, the bunkers r full of water and weeds, and the fairways r unkempt. They have lost the course here, pretty much. And instead of being nice or even decent when asked about the conditions, the manager responded with anger and was a real jerk. Bad business and bad businessman. Won’t be going back. The course has been steadily declining for months now.

I was very underwhelmed with the course after seeing many good reviews, and being referred to as a course to play by locals. This course looked like the greens and the rest of the course were taken care of by two totally different supers. The greens rolled true, held shots well, and were free of bruises and bare spots caused by ball marks. The rest of the course however, was a bit of a jungle. The fairway grass was plush over 90% of the course and I'm even willing to give the length of the cut in the fairway a bit of a reprieve due to recent rains, even though it was a bit hairy. The tee boxes and what should have been rough lining the fairway and just outside the fringe of the green were, well, rough to put it mildy. The tee boxes were over run with crabgrass and nutsedge. The emerge of the fairway had no first cut, either you hit fairways or were faced with a lost ball in a 6 inch plus mix of weeds and trash grasses with some areas approaching knee high Iles than 3 yards off of the fairway. The most overgrown areas were around the tee boxes and between the tees and the front edge of the fairway. This made for so soaked feet trudging through high grasses just to tee of for an early morning round. The bunkers didn't fair any better than the rough, most where you could still see the sand were caked and a thick pasty sludge, while the majority were overgrown with weeds and hardly recognizable as bunkers. The grounds staff were about as friendly as they were capable, not very. Yes I know they have a job to do, but on one hole I had to avoid a man weedeating the edges of green side bunkers and the first cut of rough with my approach shot, then putt with him slinging grass and smoke all to my back. On a second hole I finally picked up because of the oblivious grounds crew member mowing the landing area in front of the green. It's safe to say im.glad I saved myself some money on this one grabbing a tee time on tee off because even then it was over priced for the condition.