LPGA International - Hills Course

Well, we delayed teeing off for well over an hour because they had a college tournament in front of us which allegedly resulted in no carts being available. This wasn’t mentioned at check in. When we finally got to play, we discovered that vast tracks of the property between the fairways were under excavation for housing development, which sent dust over everything and everyone with the added bonus of large equipment noise. To top it off, we went through 3 golf carts due to battery failure. No one, and I mean no one apologized for this fiasco. In mentioning this to the person in the pro shop I was told new carts were on order and no consideration or compensation would be given for our experience. Well, I’ve played this course a number of times and never will again.

The pace was slow on back nine but other than that it was a great day

The course was in good shape even though they had sanded the greens. They still putted well. Just had too many people playing!

For the money it should have been in better condition.and carts should be equipped with gps.

Course conditions are great. However there is not one ball washer on the entire course! Also no pictures of the hole layout on the score card.

Additionally the area around the course is full of large earth movers and bare clear cutting of the trees. Natural area surrounding the course is being destroyed to add housing I assume.

The Hills course is a more challenging layout than the Jones course in my opinion. Very little room for error in most cases. If your ball is off target, you may be unable to locate it due to the natural hazards. Sand bunkers need attention and course does not supply enough rakes to be maintained be players during play. Fairways and greens in above average condition. LPGA International is our favorite place to play in and around Daytona.

You can see they just aren’t putting money into he operation. There was literally a 30 person deep 30 minute delay from scheduled t-time because they didn’t have enough carts to service the play. This is patently absurd. I inquired and learned they are on the 5th year of a 4 year lease agree to replace carts. (Again cost cutting erasure while play suffered). Why is this bad? Because as you would expect, my cart dies on the 15th hole. Stranded and holding people up. They brought another out, then the twosome we were playing their cart died one hole later. Two old men and they were hot! Pace of play SLOOOOOWWWW and the rangers drive around but do nothing to speed up play. Positive? The greens where. Very good. Mostly true will a little speed such that if you were on the wrong side of the hole it was punitive.

Condition was fairly good. However, on course services were terrible. Got to the range and no buckets. Had to retrieve empties from the range. Several green tee markers missing. No water on the course. No towels in carts. No Ranger to move slow groups along. Compared to prior years I’ve played there, the playing experience has diminished considerably. Heard excuse of full tee sheet due to race weekend. You didn’t know that ahead of time?

We played at the Hill's. The course was good, but we ran into some construction at the few holes. It was ugly.

Tee time was delayed by 90 minutes. There were no cards available. Construction of houses, course is run down.