Longwood Golf Club - Palmetto Course

Played Pine to Palmetto and had a great time. Pines is definitely challenging but has a fun design. The greens were recently worked on and not very good conditions.

Went and played Longwood pine and Palmetto yesterday. It was a beautiful day, they over booked Pine and it took us for ever to get the first 9 holes in. When we finally got to Palmetto an older man jumped in front of us and took his time even though the sun was disappearing fast. Needless to say we did not finish.

i will to go this course next time.

Pace of play is HORRIBLE! They have no marshals going around to speed things up and they are always ALWAYS backed up. 2 groups on each hole makes it a long and not so enjoyable round. That makes this experience 4 times in a row now that this has happened. Longwood is the course that causes my friends and I not to get memberships with them and Cypress Lakes. You are better off playing anywhere else seriously.

Good value course. Greens and fairways in very good condition.

Longwood keeps telling people, "New Management is improving things." The truth is this course is as bad as I have ever seen and should we a $35 weekend rate at the most. Many areas of the course are unplayable.

sand traps were washed out to a large extent, the greens were furry and slow. Sad because the layout is actually nice. Best attribute was cart girls, some talent on the bev cart for sure. The course even at $50 is over priced. And they let their Usga ratings lapse to its not even a course you can turn your score in

Played Longwood several times - sort of my home course. The greens are starting to look good, hopefully they will stay that way. Fairways are full. Good job to the course superintendent!

The Greens are not good , Also at arrival without priar notification they made us play same 9 holes twice

Booked to play on Monday. After arriving, I was informed there was a tournament and had to play the same 9 twice.

Not worth the price paid for the round of golf!!!!

We played early Sunday morning. Immediately noticed that the course was pretty wet. They either must get their water free of charge or they had massive rain that missed the rest of Houston. Ironically, we were on a tee box late in the round when the sprinkler's went off. Not the best way to use water, especially since all the forecasts had rain coming down later that day/evening.
Overall, the course was in decent shape. Greens were a bit slow. Tee boxes were basically taken from a cow pasture. Pace of play good. Paid about $60, so not too bad, but there are other courses in town that offer better conditions for that price.

Check in by friendly pro shop group. Driving range well maintained. Played gold tees that challenged all shots. Golf course in great shape and marshaled well. There are three 9's, one of which had a small tournament. Did not impact our round. We finished in 4 1/2 hours. 19th hole has a great burger and cold beer. Amazed at the lack of golfers on the course for a Saturday.

I've been playing Longwood since 2011 when it was under different management. Over the last 18 months, the course has seen some tough days. I had actually stop playing there, due to the condition of tee boxes and greens.
However, on my most recent visit, I was happy to see the course (fairways and greens) in great condition. Many tee boxes are still in bad shape and need to be re-sod, or moved around more to allow grass to recover. And many bunkers do not drain well at all. Case in point, the week leading up to my date of play, there hadn't been much rain, yet many bunkers were wet/muddy. Either that's a draining issue or sprinkler issue...but needs to be addressed.
At the end of the day, fairways and greens are most important and they were terrific.

Other impressions:
Food - Okay.

Facilities (Clubhouse) - Very nice. Not the best, but better than average. Dining room is large with many TVs to watch different sporting events.

Practice Facilities - For the crowds that come out to this course, the driving range is way too small. This is the only course, where I have seen folks waiting to find a spot to practice. Practice bunker has the same issues as on-course bunkers (stated earlier). Putting green is excellent.

Staff - Never had a problem with the staff here. Every employee I have dealt with has been professional. Maybe not friendly, but professional.

Summary - Great course at the under $60 range. All 3 courses offer challenges. Beautiful scenery. Nice layouts. Good pace of play.

I used to play Longwood a lot, but their greens went to pot, so this was the first time I've played the course in a little over 2 months. The greens were is great shape, compared to before, even though they still had a few bare spots, but not in strategic places. I have to give the new guy they hired to fix up the course kuddos on the new look.

Nice golf course with good driving range and putting area. Nice club house. I will play it again.

The course was in good shape we teeed off at 2:15pm Thursday. We were supposed to play the pine/post we stop at the clubhouse for lunch as we were returning to our cart to make the turn the Marshall rudely said we are going to have to change our back side because we were taking to long. I didn't mind that but we were spending our money in the club house. Just work on how you deliver the message to guest.

Two things I like when playing golf are the greens and the fairways. Both were great here at the course.

Fairways good green very good like the hazards course challenging perfect for tournaments

Some of the greens really have bare spots, Big bare spots. Reminded me of Chambers Bay greens. Bunkers needed work. Nothing done since rain

I am not typically an online review person, but everyone should be warned about this course. We played Post Oak to Pine. The Post Oak Course was in the worst condition of any course I have played in the last 10 years. The Tee Boxes, Fairways, Greens, and Bunkers were all in awful condition. Specifically, large areas of grass were missing and the bunkers were hard packed sandy mud. If you have any golf ability or experience, you will be disappointed by the conditions. Putting is just unfair on this course. The Pine course was in better condition, but still had large areas of the greens that had no grass.