White Heron Golf Club

For an over 65 it can appear to be very challenging but sensible play can reduce the very challenging parts

Being a community course I expected your average run of the mill course not too difficult wide fairways large greens and not much in the way of hazards. I couldn’t have been more wrong, a course with character we played off the whites good choice as the further back tees require a few good drives over water.

Excellent course well worth the money

A word of warning for those with gps’s the front nine and the back nine have been swapped round. But numbers 1 and 10 are similar doglegs with water. Confused me not that it takes much. The usual reason for this is when the members find what are now the 9, 10, 11 holes too hard for opening holes and ruin your card before you even start

No drinking water out on the course. Not acceptable in 93+ temps which is common for this area.

Tees and fairways had sime crab grass, range balls had seen better days and the greens were very slow. Having painted a bad picture it was actually a very nice layout and challenging in places. It was just a shame that it needs a little investment. Given that it would be a great value track.

You need to know that the course is in a gated community & you have to allow time to get a parking pass & enter the community through the main gate. The course itself is an interesting layout with water in play on many holes. Generally, the course needs a bit of TLC as recent weather has taken it's toll. Tees & bunkers in particular need more attention. It was cart path only which was only notified on the first tee by the starter.

Much improved greens and general conditions

Great layout

My group...2 foursomes...thoroughly enjoyed our round.....great amenities.

Super friendly staff!!!

Will definitely be back!!

Played in May this year, it was great. Went back yesterday and was shocked to find it was even open. Fairways so wet, hard to find a dry bit to place the ball. The greens were poor and scruffy. Persevered for 9 holes then gave up, took nearly 3 hours just for 9 as everyone was losing their plugged balls. Buggies were allowed to drive everywhere which was churning up the course, it was a mess.

We had a tee time today for 18 holes at White Heron, we did see the airification alert and also looked at reviews which stated the greens had been aerated 8/30 so we assumed wrongly that the course would be ok, we were very wrong.

On arrival we were told we would have to play the front nine twice and obviously we hadn’t read the note on your website, I told them there was no note but he assured me there was and I hadn’t read it. I have just looked again and there is no mention of this I can see.

The course is in an awful condition the fairways haven’t been cut and it is like playing out of the rough, there is no mention of cart paths only until you get halfway down the fairway and the buggy tells you cart path only and comes to a stop.

In our opinion the course should not be open as there are workman all over the place.

Course was soaked. Nothing can be done about that, it is Florida. Most greens were in good shape while some were sandy and had weed patches in them. Hated the crab grass on the fringe of fairway ( I know hit the fairway) it was very difficult to play out of. Everyone from the guys in the pro shop to the starter were super friendly and the drinks from the bar were not lacking in anyway. Overall good day for myself and my friend. Challenging course for me, but very fun.

Aeration had just taken place the previous week so I can over look that on any course. Staff in pro shop extremely friendly very enjoyable course layout and great value. Would love to return in future after Aeration I'm sure I'd enjoy it more.