The Golf Club at Bluewater Bay

I've been a snowbird for the past 11 years and always play the course several times each year. For us it's a pleasure just to be out and hitting a ball. In winter, the course is a little rough. They do not over seed so the fairways are tight lies. Greens are just playable. If you don't want to pay $100+ at the high end courses, it's a good alternative.

Staff is excellent!

Layout is tight and you won’t need many drivers. Fun course where you have to shape your shots. Greens are in great shape and fairways are good to. Great value for the money and will play again. It’s not a premier course but it’s a fun one and in good shape

Nice layout but course could use better maintenance and watering.

I’m disheartened. I thought the Bluewater Bay GC was a good course because of its location and area but I was wrong. I’ll just mention some key points:

Tee boxes aren’t kept in good shape. Lots of them have overgrown grass all around them.

The course layout is terrible. Instead of an 18-hole course, it’s two separate 9-hole courses. When you go from the 9th hole to the 10th—which is the 1st hole of the second course—you’ need to drive to it through the neighborhood; it takes about 4 minutes to get there.

The holes are so narrow that, if you slice or pull your ball, forget about it. You’ll end up either in someone’s backyard or in their street.

The bunkers are in dire condition. The #8 on the Marsh Course has a long bunker on the left. It has so much overgrown grass, it looks like quicksand. I even thought for a second that it was a sandy pond.

Other than a single bathroom on each course, with a water fountain (which not many people use fountains anymore), there are no water stations across the golf course.

The driving range looks so unkept, it seriously looks like an abandoned range.

The only positive experience I had was with the Pro Shop staff. They’re very friendly and efficient.

Finally, even with the inexpensive rate I paid today, I’m not ever coming back again.

Overall, the course is a decent value for the money. The greens are in average condition, with some repair areas on the greens. The fairways are slightly below average. The sand traps are below average with grass growing in some of them. The course is short, so if you’re long off the tee - it’s driver/wedge. I hit irons off the tee to change it up.

Overall though, the course is pretty cheap if you get a GolfNow “Hot Deal”. I’d pay $20 to play again, but not above $30.

Surrounded by private homes these nine hole courses have a nice layout - we played Bay and Marsh -, but tee boxes, sand traps and fairways are a bit rough. Greens are ok and well playable. If one wants better conditions it‘s always possible to spend double price or more and get one of Destins signature courses.

Wife and I play here often. We love the course, and the employees. We often get “stuck” behind a group of really slow players, who choose not to let us play through. This only happens when there is no marshal present. Please have on course presence to elevate this issue

Thank you

Treated with disrespect from the beginning. Tried to take some new golfers on vacation to introduce them to the game. The staff did nothing to create an inclusive atmosphere.

Fairways were open and greens were in decent shape. This course winds through a residential area and is likely the best value for the dollar in the Destin area

Fairways are bad. Ground is hard as a rock with no fluff. Like trying to chip off of concrete. Club house is small. Cook slept in so no food, snacks, or drinks. Greens and Tee boxes were in decent shape. Course was very cheap for 18 holes. Course does offer a couple of nice views of the bay. If looking to have a great score, don’t come here.

Staying in Destin during spring break and looked to book a next day tee time around 8-9am. For the price and proximity to where we stay I would play this course every time I’m in Destin. Not as easy as you would think and overall was worth the price.