Riverside Golf Course

i hadn't played out here for several years. it's never been the best maintained course. they have put some work into greens and bunkers and that's really helped.

truthfully, the course is still not in amazing shape. everything through the green is patchy and you'll probably want to play the ball up to avoid getting frustrated. the greens were very slow, but were nice! same for the bunkers. it's obvious they are putting in effort.

despite the conditions, the layout is fun and interesting. it's a short course, but not all of the holes can be overpowered. there are strategic trees and holes that require you to shape the ball or be badly out of position.

overall, it's a classic old style course. the staff were super friendly too. if you like that kind of thing, it's worth the time. get out there and have some fun!

1st time there in about 4 years . Unlike most reviews I saw on line - good course conditions, very good grass on greens - some with a few sand spots. 5 PM start, done by 8 PM. No crowd. Played through one 3-some after 12 holes. Nice layout, lots of mature trees.

Goddess value. Front nine greens not to good. Back nine much better.

The greens are...they should not be considered greens. Some of them, had patches impossible to avoid., some others had been so damaged by divots that the ball trajectory would be changed dramatically. The fairways were nearly acceptable. Im never going back. No marshall at all
Sad to see such a great and challenging course design be so abandoned.

Played Riverside this weekend. Super fast pace. We were done in 3 hours. Not a lot of folks out. It is a fun, relatively easy course in pretty good condition.

Overall the course was a good value, but the greens need some work.

We recently had a flood, so I was expecting cart path only, but I have literally never played a course whose greens were in worse shape. I wouldn't ever pay more than $10 to play this course in it's present condition.

Course was a little rough, but will come around nicely once it starts raining here again! Got in my cart at 2pm and was finished and driving out by 4:30 pm! Just what the Dr. Ordered for a Friday afternoon. Staff was very accomadating also! ZOOM, Zoom!!

even before I could attract my foursome to join me after Golfnow reservation Sat they bowed out saying course was a mess. I called and groundskeeper who answered phone admitted, "there is a lot of work to do". Course is changing hands. Money just arriving. 10 tons of sand on the way for traps, more equipment purchased. Meanwhile holes 1-18 "need some work" and the last guy who played there who told someone in my party to debook said give it a few months.... we played at Plum Creek instead which was more expensive but in fine shape.

Riverside golf course is in very bad condition, I don't think I will ever play again.

I have played this course for many years and at one point even worked at this location. The course is in terrible shape. Course management is completely non existent with the exception of occasional mowing of fairways and greens. The bunkers have grass growing out of the sand! I wouldn't play there again unless I was paying $10. Sad to see what use to be a nice course in such bad condition.

It is unbecoming of Austin to offer such a course to the playing public. The greens were nothing more than a piece of turf that was flatter than its surroundings - bunkers were non-existent.

Hard to think that this is the course where Penick taught - that is what drew me to this course - Penick would probably want to be disassociated with this course for sure - and Tom Kite.

Course was closed and run down. Greens have many bald spots, bunkers have no sand . Course management is working on getting it back in shape . Back nine better shape than front . Over all nice course and very challenging. Long. Bring ur A game

Easily worst conditions have ever played - horrible greens, roughs out of control (might as well have been playing in a lagoon or a wheat field), half the sand traps are now actually water hazards, even the fairways were atrocious - half the fairways were like playing out of a normal rough.

*Silver lining - Heard mention that ACC was going to be reassuming control/management of facility - So hopefully by the fall conditions should be in better shape. Hoping they turn the place around.

I grew up playing this course. This course is such a fantastic layout built by a famous architect and what the city or community college whoever owns this now has done to it is abominable. The greens of the worst greens I've ever putted on. Such a great layout could be so good but it's so awful now. So sad.

So, I went here with a buddy after work knowing that Riverside is pretty rough. I did not expect the greens to be in such horrible condition, though.

The staff here is always friendly and helpful. The course overall has a pretty nice layout, as this was once one of the premier courses in town. Not anymore. The rough is unkempt and long. Good luck finding a wayward ball. Also, the greens! OMG, they were pretty much unplayable. The par 3 course at Barton has better greens than this! Seriously, unless you don't care about putting at all, skip this course until the greens are in better condition

The title says it all. I was shocked at the poor condition of the course. It looks like to me the course will not be with us for much longer. Quit after 9. First time for me.

I booked this tee time due to convenience and had low expectations. The condition of the course was deplorable. Greens were primarily sand and bumpy as can be. The sand traps had not been properly raked in months. And the rough was far to high making it nearly impossible to find a ball even a foot off the fairway. I spent the majority of my round circling the area my ball should be searching. After a few minutes I usually ended up giving up and begrudgingly taking a drop. There were piles of branches cut off trees that had just been left to rot where they fell. Again I ask the question, does this course even have a ground crew? It looked more like one guy just drives around in a mower once a week. I will never return to this course.

I'm guessing the front 9 were under some typ of construction because we could only play the back 9. If u hit the ball in any ruff no matter where it was u couldn't find ur ball and the greens were not in very good condition. I'm guessing the lack of rain has something to do with the course poor condition.

I have been playing Riverside for almost 30 years. I took a buddy from work to show him where Harvey Penick taught Ben and Tom golf. I have never played a course in more disrepair. There was very little grass on the greens and the grass was there, it had not been touched in some time. One green had grass over 1/2 inch high. It was embarrassing taking somebody there for the first time. It had usually been in pretty good shape. Perhaps ACC or the management company quit putting money into it. .