Riverside Golf Course

No frills golf course and the tee box and greens were in decent shape compared to other municipalities type golf courses. Tight green between sand traps and small water hazards.which I no doubt hit on multiple holes!) definitely play there again

Always a fun and simple local course, best bang for your buck. Easy enough, while still providing some challenge and game to keep you intrigued

Paired up with a cool group. Pleasant to play with.

It's been a LONG time since I've played this course. While it's no country club, I did find it in better shape than anticipated.

TEES -- Quite a number of the tee boxes have seen a lot of play. Either players think that they're pros and taking divots while not using tees ... or they're just not good golfers. Or perhaps the tee markers need to be moved around a little more. They're not always the biggest tee boxes to begin with. Anyway, there was minimal grass on a number of them and just about dirt only on a couple in particular.

FAIRWAYS -- No complaints here. They all appeared in quite decent shape (when I was actually playing out of them).

HAZARDS -- The bunkers were full and clean, but definitely not soft. Had they been watered a good amount? Are they just a harder sand/dirt compound? I'm not sure. I just know they were all very hard. As for water, there's barely a single pond that you may encounter. Generally speaking, you may have one or two little creek type areas to carry.

GREENS -- Most of these were just fine. However, a number of them had some larger burned up areas (heat, disease?). Soft sand was placed over these spots in lieu of grass. Hopefully a more permanent fix is coming as it might've been better to rope them off as ground under repair and let us drop on a better playing surface. I did encounter FIRE ANTS around the #16 and #17 greens. I avoided one of them but they snuck up on elsewhere so I ended up with a few bites around the ankle. That's not acceptable to me. These really need to be treated ASAP and/or regularly. For the number and size of these mounds, I can tell you from experience that they haven't been dealt with in a timely manner. Get them handled or they'll just become that much bigger of a problem.

CLUBHOUSE ETC -- The clubhouse is the same as it's been for a long, long time. It's a little old building pushed up against the back of the Austin Community College campus. I only stepped inside to pay so I'm not really sure what food/drink options may be available. There's no driving range and they have a single practice green. The carts are pretty basic (as expected) but do have USB ports and the larger drink/cup holders. They were running a beverage cart on the Friday we played and we saw them two or three times.

Not willing to give a rain check when it’s raining is ridiculous!

This is the first time I played this course. As a traditional layout and terrain course, the challenges are different and test your skills. Staff was friendly, respectful and appreciative.

Pace of play was slow. Overall I look forward to playing it again. Highly recommend.

For the price, the experience is about what you'd expect from a public course. Most greens were in good shape but some had large patches of no grass. Fairways were ok but the Texas summer definitely stressed the whole course. We played behind a terribly slow group who had no understanding of golf rules or etiquette. But the absence of any kind of course monitor or marshal left us to suffer through it. The on course beverage server was very nice and timely but at some points they were out of beer (!) and another time out of Gatorade. It seems to me that just a little bit better management and the course could be very nice. With so many beginning golfers on the course, it would be really helpful to have a marshal. But, again, for the price I would recommend it with the understanding that it is a public course and you'll get what you paid for.

The last time I played here in June, conditions were pretty bad. The fairways look a lot better; pretty consistent firmness. Some of the greens are near pristine, others are pretty rough with sand spots, bare spots, and just not well groomed. I can tell they’ve come a long way from what I remember. Hopefully they can keep dialing it in. The layout is challenging but also has some short par 4s. It’s a fun course. I’ll definitely be back.

It is a great course, plenty of wide open areas, but it puts a premium on quality shots and positioning. Definitely will go back after it cools off, and the greens and fairways have had time to recover from the heat stress.

I’m currently on hole 7 and i never thought i’d say this, but the course is bad that i’m currently wishing i wasn’t golfing.

Looks like a wasteland from Fallout or something.

Golf course is in bad shape. Some areas have mud from over watering and in some areas the earth is cracking from being to dry. Fairway are hard as concrete and greens aren't much different. Some greens have huge sand spots on them it seems you're putting through a bunker. For $50 during the week morning rate I expect a little more. I know we're under a slight water rashan but I've played other coures that are in perfect condition for about the same price and worse course that prices matches the poor condition. Drop price until coures is in better shape.

Course wouldn't be so bad if not for all of the construction.