Woodbridge Golf Club

Played in a scramble on Friday, 10/22/2021 that had a shotgun start at 1:00 pm. Our team came to Hole #1 at 5:00 pm with 4 holes to finish and the course started putting off groups into the middle of the tournament. They saw us walking off the 18 green coming to No.1 and they sent 2 walkers and M/F in cart onto the course in front of us. There were 7 more groups that needed to get through Hole #1 behind us and they continued putting the public into the middle of the scramble.

In 35+ years in DFW and playing in numerous scrambles per year, I have never had a course start putting stroke play groups especially after only 4 hours. If it was the head pro that allowed this he/she should be fired!!!

Even if the field did not fill all 18 holes, the field should have been set up so that the first group would go off Hole #1, with every group following it. That way, once the last group would have cleared Hole #1, no other groups would have been following and they could allow the public to follow the tournament.

Pace of play was terrible. There were 2 marshals on the course, but the only time I saw the they were parked next to each other talking in the shade. There was a group of 5 in front of us playing from 3 different tee boxes. The marshals should have been driving around encouraging them to pick up their pace.

Great course. Lots of shade. Challenging. Had a great time.

Everything was fantastic, except for the grounds keeper that was in front of us the entire time weed eating. It was absolutely uncalled for. He could care less that he was onky 150 years in front of us on every shot. Never seen that before.

We played on labor day.... 5 hours plus. I am always amazed that 18 holes of golf can take so dang long. Course was in decent shape - good greens, a little over-watered fairways and green surrounds, and the rough was challenging. The bunkers are all being renovated and more than 50% were unplayable. The heat, slow pace and thick rough made this a challenging day. PLayed with my old friend Rick and that made it worthwhile. This course is not in my normal rotation, but the price and available tee time were good for us today.

When all the updates are done it’s gonna be real nice I believe

Had a great round, the course was in really good shape even after the rain storm we had that week. One cool feature was that the carts had built in Bluetooth.

But the course layout was amazing, the greens displayed a true roll in my opinion. The staff was friendly and gave advice when asked

9 out of 10

Love the course. Really slow day. Don’t think it’s a consistent issue but several twosomes following slow foursomes

This course use to be my favorite public course in the area. Even at a relatively lower cost, it was a better course than most of the competition in the area. And then the new owners took over in mid-2021 and things have gone downhill very quickly. It’s hard to know where to start with everything that they’ve messed up, but here’s a list of what comes to mind:

-Removed GPS from the carts – This was one of the few public courses with GPS, but now it’s just like all the rest;

-Cut down numerous trees that were part of the beauty and strategy for the hole: Holes 5, 8 and 17 to name a few;

-Removed a number of fairway bunkers on several holes that were part of the hole strategy—now there are just giant glassy depressions leftover instead of leveling the land;

-Pace of play is RIDICULOUSLY slow! I mean like Pecan Hollow 5 ½ hour per round slow. And that’s saying something;

-Raised the rates—Despite the removing of GPS and the removing of so many bunkers, which cost a lot to maintain, they actually RAISED the rates. They didn’t do it as bad as Plantation, Twin Creeks and Buffalo Creek as far as their new ridiculously high rates, but taking measures that cut upkeep costs should result in decreasing rates, not increasing them.

-And then the staff argued with me when I had several of the old range tokens leftover that I previously bought and wanted to exchange since they removed the token machine. They take my money but won't honor the tokens they sold me???

So the obvious guess is that the course was altered so horribly in order to save upkeep costs, and then numerous more tee times were added, both of which are decisions made to increase revenues. It’s a business and that makes sense, except that the way they did it here has seriously damaged the overall experience. My golfing group plays once per week, and Woodbridge was our place at least once or twice a month, but now I’m not sure if I’ll even play it once or twice a year now, and then only if I have no other choice. Hopefully the fools that have screwed up Woodbridge will read enough of these reviews and try to correct some of their horrible errors.

PS: Since a lot of people like me buy multiple range tokens at one time so that we don't have to go to the pro shop every time we go to the range, you should honor those tokens even once you removed the token machine. Firewheel did this and you should too.