Longwood Golf Club - Palmetto Course

course is a very bad condition, not 100/150/200 marks, not cart guidance signs, slowest play ever.

Would not go back.

It is very shameful that a nice course layout being on such bad shape.

No marshals to move people. 6hr+ round

Greens a little sandy and some of the fairways a little thin but overall a good course for the money.

The Longwood courses are getting better since the flooding from Harvey. The 9 hole Pine course has recently reopen.

The Palm and Post Oak courses have under went some major improvements, the bunkers have been redesigned and become more playable. The course has holes where sections of fairways have very little grass or no grass to hit from.

The tee box from several holes are rough and uneven with weeds are growing instead of grass. The greens on most of the hole are in good shape but their are a few with weeds growing and holes dug in the greens on the Post Oak course. They are

Working on improving the condition of the course.

I was told the course has new ownership.

Ok. They need to get rid of the crab grass on the greens before it takes over. A lot of work still needs done on the fairways.

The course was in very bad shape!! Number of holes looked like it had been under water. Lots of areas roped off. The guy behind the counter in the Club house was very nasty.

First time playing at Longwood and was pleasantly surprised. This course was heavily flooded from Hurricane Harvey and is still undergoing reconditioning. Because of the floods, they have you play a varied track than the normal 9 and 9 from 2 of the three courses. Definitely will be back out there this year.

It was after the Houston floods and damage was evident. The powers that be have done a great job in getting 18 holes out of their 27. Enjoyed the round understanding the situation. Kudos to them.

This is one of those courses that could be great unfortunately it never really has reached it's full potential. It's true in fairness that they've had to deal with some Mother Nature a ton. First a terrible drought that caused them to lose a ton of their tree. Once the drought was over a throw in a couple of tropical storms and a hurricane and it's been a tough go for any Golf Course to recover from. Our last Hurricane Harvey just threw them another curve and they're under repair again. Those that are familiar with the course know that the course is divided into 3 nines the Pine Course, The Post Course, and Palmetto. In order to get in 18 holes of golf they had to divide several different holes as holes 5,6,7,8 on the Palmetto Course are under repair and not playable, holes 4,5,6,7,9 aren't playable and under repair. So they divided all the playable holes so you have an 18 hole course. Stay in the fair way, which is true for any course but here it's a must otherwise you're playing lost balls, with grass so thick and under brush and virtual swamp areas is crazy. The greens are slow, fairways were soft but don't get fooled there are couple of fairways that the ball will get some roll. I tell you all this as nobody told me these were the conditions that we were going to be playing when I arrived. It was only as we checked in that we were made aware of the course and that's only after we paid our green fees. Here's the GOOD NEWS we pretty much had the course to ourselves on a Saturday morning. I'll not be playing Longwood again I might recommend their Cypress Lake course it's worth checking out.

Ended up playing Palm and Pine. Both sides were equal (not good, but not bad). Greens were okay and course was okay but the cart path felt like I was driving on 290 in the middle of all the construction. Do yourself a favor and just drive in the grass almost the whole way. Course was good but pace of play ( played with one other gentleman the first 9 and joined up with a man and his wife the last) was poor the first 9. We got stuck behind another 2-some whose skill level was not quite up to our so we waited for them on every tee and fairway. I would recommend it if you can find it for around $20 because that is all it is worth to play out here. Do not pay full price.

over 2 years since I played Longwood and found very positive progress to improve course condition. Always has been one of the most unique course layout in the Houston area with 3 enjoyable and challenging course design. Recovering from sever weather flooding events, the effort I see is very promising. I highly recommend and will support their efforts to offer an upper level of golf play. Their staff is has never wavered and are very professional and sincere. Robert Muniz

They are working hard to improve the course. You can see where they are killing off some of the goose/crab/nut grass on the greens so there are some bare spots but itshould fill in pretty quick. They are trimming back the underbrush to improve air flow. There is still a lot of work to go to bring it up to Cypress Lakes standards but they are moving in the right direction.

Pace of play was ridiculously slow, it took two of us 4 1/4hrs to play 18 holes, had we not driven out one hour across town to play we would have skipped around and or just left after nine holes. This was our first time paying this course so we manned-up enough patience to wait it out. We played the Palmetto and Post Oak courses, to me the course was very nice, somewhat challenging, course just played well for me all day. Greens were nice, some need some work nearer the rough, soft but firm, played slow in the morning and then fast as they dried up. Fairways were nice, couple thin spots here and there but overall good conditions. I will definitely make another trip out to play and recommend the course, lets hope pace of play is much better!

The 9 holes on the Pine side are in horrific conditions. The tee boxes were either undercut or dug up, the bunkers were dirt pit, the fairways had little to no grass and the greens still have not recovered from the last aeration. I enjoy getting out and playing golf as much as anyone else but with the condition of the Pine side which we had to play as the front and back, I would have rather stayed home and did yard work.

I normally play Palm and Post which I must say are in the best shape I have ever seen them. Of course this was only because of the tournament host over the weekend. The course employees failed to mention while I was there and played just 2 days before that there was a tourney being hosted.

The poor scheduling is on me, but the Pine side conditions are on them.

This course is down the street from me, so it should be my first choice course when I am looking to play. However, over the past 2 years or so that I have played this course (more than 10 times), there has only been 2 rounds where I would say the conditions were "playable". The most typical condition problems are the greens and bunkers. The greens are typically rolling about a 4 or less on the stimp meter (Ben Hogan would tear these greens up!) or have large areas with no grass and exposed earth; this happens about 50% of the time I am out there. Also, the conditioning of the greens can vary widely between the 3 nine hole layouts, so your front/back nine green conditions can be significantly different. The bunkers are not playable probably 75% of the time; I have seen small trees growing in them and they do not appear to be raked or maintained on any sort of regular schedule. Occasionally pace of play is an issue as the clubhouse likes to over book the course especially when they will host a tournament (tournament players get priority over daily fee players from what I've seen). This can mean you tee off normally and then have to wait upwards of an hour at the turn as they feather you into players coming off of another nine. Also, this course has tons of foursomes scoring in the triple digits who do not play ready golf, but this issue plagues every public course and marshalls appear to have no authority. With the bad, the course layout is fun, varied, and challenging although there are many short par 4s throughout the course that require teeing off with a mid-iron even from the back tees (which can get annoying for better players). The fairways are ample, but wayward shots tend to go into thick trees or brush and make for interesting recovery options. There are also a lot of risk/reward shots along the way and the hazards are well placed. The few times of year that the course is in good shape, I always enjoy my rounds out there and even the conditioning doesn't keep me away for very long as I am always hopeful that they will someday figure out how to manage this course.

Beautiful weather helped make this a good value. The course was in good condition (greens were a bit slow) but given the damage they had last year with flooding they have done a remarkable job getting the course back into good playing shape. I hope to go back sometime and will definitely recommend this to my golf buddies.