Turtle Creek Golf Club

This course has the absolutely most backward policies when it comes to a dress code; they would not allow a Nike Tiger Woods mock turtle golf shirt. They offered to have me use an old collared golf shirt that had been worn many times before by many different golfers - this during Covid-19! A definite health code violation! The owner and her staff were quite rude in the way they treated their "guests" and decided to forgo over $100 in fees rather than allow properly dressed golfers to play their course.

I had played this course many times in the past without a problem but for whatever reason, they seem to have forgotten that golfers have a choice in where they play; I will certainly not be giving this course any more of my business and I will make sure my fellow golfers also do not go to play there.

Non-collared shirts, as worn by Tiger Woods and just about every other pro golfer on the planet, are just not good enough for this crappy facility and they don't give a hoot that non-collared (but still golf) shirts are universally accepted even at private country clubs. They offered my partner a used shirt with a collar but in the middle of a pandemic, how can you wear someone elses clothes when you don't know where the shirt has been? They are totally clueless and their customer service stinks!

Guess they thibnk they are the only golf course in existence. They will never get another dollar of my considerable recreationable expenditures because evidently they are doing so well that they can offend good and loyal customers.

Turtle Creek still is an excellent choice for a good value and nice course. While I have seen it in slightly better shape, its being taken care of better than most good public courses. There is a great mix of holes and you need to use all your clubs. The 4 par 5 holes stand out and the 18th is always a challenge coming over the water with your 3rd shot.

Turtle Creek does not disappoint. You can count on nice fairways and greens. The spacing was good, didn’t have to wait or hurry. A couple of bunkers could use some attention. Play here and enjoy.

This was my first time playing this course. I played with my son and we both had a good day out on the course. I’ll say it first but the course is not worth the $70 asking price to play. I’ve been trying to book this course for a while but They don’t allow times for singles. Who doesn’t allow tee times for singles? They then tried to say that the governor issued THEIR course a order to say no singles. I find that hard to believe. Medically speaking a foursome has a greater chance to spread COVID 19. A single is very less likely. Don’t make excuses to not put singles out there. 1st the course doesn’t have anything special about it. Is it a good course? Sure. Depends on the player. It’s not a hard course. Most holes you can miss left or right no problem. 2nd. The carts. Very outdated carts and they're was a popping sounds comming from the engine every time we tried to stop. 3rd. Practice facilities. Arriving to a golf course you’ve never played before and getting there early is essential in my mind. You want to get a feel for the greens and let the other parts of your game do the job. Very small chipping and putting green. Finally the greens aren’t true and remeber that. Most putts look good until the end they fall off. Will I be back? No it’s not easy for me to find my 2nd person to play with.

I’ve reviewed this course before. I love the layout and the challenges of this course. Always in good to excellent shape. All aspects (tee boxes, fairways, rough and greens) were in excellent shape for any time of the year but for mid-August, I was shocked at how great the conditions were . Many other courses in the area are experiencing fairway rot due to all the rain and extremely high temps with high humidity. We’ve had a ton of rain lately with Tropical storm Isaias passing through last week followed by a torrential down put a couple days later that actually closed the course. There were a few spots with standing water but that was it. Greens were fast and true as always. Now, on to the bunkers. The only reason I don’t give TC a five star rating is the condition of the bunkers. Many of them were unplayable with either standing water in them or completely washed out. The bunker complexes need to be renovated to modern standards. This is a huge cost and probably not going to happen any time soon on a public course with rates as low as they are.

The staff is very friendly and accommodating. The starter let us out a group early because the group in front of us did not have their act together. We paid $16 for a super twilight round, teed off just before 5:00 and finished at 8:20. We walked and got held up on the front by a threesome, who was playing at a good pace, 1:55 front. They let us through on 10 and we zipped through the back. Love this course. Will definitely return.

Need to get a few more Fresh Food items like burgers and Maybe a new vendor for the hot dogs .

Staff was super friendly. Course was in great condition. We booked this kind of last minute. Just a twosome. We were paired up with another twosome who had a first-time golfer with us. They intelligently told us to go ahead of them, as they’d be slow. Incredibly, they stayed pretty close behind us the whole time, because there was a foursome a couple groups ahead of us who was apparently on pace for a 5 hour round, and they didn’t let anyone pass them. Ranger didn’t encourage them to let the other groups pass, and the other twosomes in front of us were too kind to hit into them to give them hint that they’re too slow. So, some course management intervention was definitely necessary.

But then, Almost 3 and a half hours into the round when we were on hole 12, the sky opened up and the lightning came. No horn, Which I actually kind of appreciate, but we decided to go in. We waited and had a drink, and the staff was super friendly and interacted with us and asked about our round and where else we play, etc.

The storm only lasted about 30 minutes, but by then It was almost 8:30pm, so we had to take a rain check (but it got me thinking that we probably weren’t going to finish anyway since the pace of play was so slow). It took us 3 hours to get through 12, another hour would have only gotten us to 16 at 9:00).

They prorated the rain check based on the number of holes we played. So here’s my problem with that. As a businessperson, I can understand the owners valuing each hole as 1/18th of the entire cost. But a golfer doesn’t think of it like that. A golfer pays for the ROUND, and our round was cut short by slow play and then a storm (that we probably could have beaten anyway, or at least finished the last hole or two after the storm if we were playing at a reasonable pace). So we got some money for the next round, but it would have gone a lot better if the rain check was for the entire back nine, as we were only a couple holes in. And we’re only talking a couple dollars to a businessperson, but a great sign of sportsmanship to a golfer.

Turtle Creek is getting a temporary 1 star review. The course is great, it's in good shape and basically everything golf related met my expectations. I do like this course. Unfortunately, these guys have some work to do keeping customers safe. The two person per cart policy is unacceptable. They are the only course i have played in the last two months with that policy and the guy in the pro shop (with his mask under his chin) tried to defend it, like it would cost them so much money to have one person per cart. I'll not be back until the pandemic is over.