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3.1
1049 Reviews (1049)
5 Stars
251
4 Stars
417
3 Stars
205
2 Stars
94
1 Stars
82
Conditions
2.7
Value
3.2
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.6
55.9%
Recommend this course
773 out of 1049 reviews
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2.7
62 Reviews (62)
5 Stars
9
4 Stars
12
3 Stars
10
2 Stars
13
1 Stars
18
Conditions
2.3
Value
2.6
Layout
4.1
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.6
StaffFriendliness
4.1
35.5%
Recommend this course
22 out of 62 reviews
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2.7
129 Reviews (129)
5 Stars
19
4 Stars
22
3 Stars
29
2 Stars
25
1 Stars
34
Conditions
2.3
Value
2.8
Layout
4.1
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.4
StaffFriendliness
4.1
41.9%
Recommend this course
54 out of 129 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 6934 yards
Slope 133
Rating 73.3

Formerly known as River Wilderness Golf and Country Club.

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Course Details

Year Built 1984
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Ted McAnlis (1984)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted MasterCard Visa card(s) Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No

Available Facilities

Clubhouse

Available Activities

Swimming, Billiards

Available Sports

Fitness, Tennis
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3.1
1049 Reviews (1049)
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Played On
Reviews 12
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing

If you like putting on concrete, you will like this course.

Not one blade of grass on the greens.

Shut the course down and get it rebuilt.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Played On
Reviews 22
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

overall good but slight disappointments

weather was perfect, sunny 70F, no wind, course in good shape, tee boxes perfect, fairways green and lush. But, rough was burnt in majority, greens were like hardwood floor, EXTREMELY fast, maybe a little too much. The most disappointing was yardage, they have gps on carts but distances and pin placement had 10 yards discrepancy. I voiced it after the round to the proshop and explanation was, the ground crew who installs the pins does not communicate their positions to the gps programmer in the morning, made no sense to me.

Still a great fun day, saw at least 5 gators (2 were particularly huge, 15 feet) and many turtles, will definitely go again at the price my wife and I were lucky enough to get thanks to golf now.

Daniel Demontigny

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

The Worst

This was undoubtly the worst course I have played in the state of Floirida. The greens where the absolute worst, the condition of the course was horrendous, I couldnt beleive that they actually have members who actually belong to this facility. I would never suggest anyone spend thoer money here, spend the extra money go to Waterlefe, River Club, Calusa, Azario....anywhere but here. I used thiis round as a practice round playing by myself I played 2 balls since I got stuck behind to members that were treating thier round as if they were play at Augusta and I still had to wait on them each hole. I cant beleive this place is stuill in business I now understand why I was able to get a tee time as easily as I did.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Great course

Course is well maintained. Fun to play. I sacrificed a ball to the creek due to alligators.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 42
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played

Average course but way overpriced now

In the past, you could play this course for 30 or $35. For an afternoon rate, what they're charging now is ridiculous for this course, which has a good layout but is challenging to maintain. Judge for yourself. But I can't understand why they're charging. So much now, when there are better ones, half the price

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 334
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 250 Contributor
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 19
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0

Greens need some watering

Course is being watered while being played. Greens are died up and weedy.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 12
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Fine

Very nice course. Best tee boxes I have ever seen.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Terrible

Don’t go new owners put the price up over $70 of course not worth it

$40 or less might be ok

Members have their own carts they don’t have to follow the rule

won’t be ready to play probably until next November 2026 save your money

Course not in very good shape every where

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Terrible

Let me start off they have new owners they raised rate to $68 cartpath on eight holes the greens were terrible bare spots, grass growing in the middle of them, they were very bumpy. The edges of the greens were sandy very little grass around the greens that you could hit off. The Rouff were terrible in most places. Fairways were good grass was thin if it rains they will be terrible.

members with their own carts could drive anywhere they wanted to, we couldn’t cartpath only didn’t make sense.

Members have their own golf cart, no way to control them.

They had temporary tee boxes that were horrible, most of the sand traps were horrible.

There was five cars in the parking lot at 7am and there were 10 cars in the parking lot at 11. I guess the word has gotten out. They may be good in a couple years. They have a long ways to go put your money somewhere else.

They need to close down now and work on this course for a good year then come back next October. It might be good by then lol!!! a good $40 course not $68

Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

They got me...

I should have read the reviews. Note to self for any future bookings. They aren't going to tell you in the notes that they are watering and reseeding everything.. tee boxes aren't avaliable so you get to tee off from dirt randomly where the forward tee would be so take off 100 plus yards every hole. Greens are dead and or trash..

I understand the need to maintain the course but at this point not letting it be known all the things going on seems like they are taking advantage. Nobody would play here knowing.. specially not for anything over 20 bucks. Worst experience I've had in a while golfing.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Previously Played

Overseeding and Shortened t-boxes

I come and play here whenever i'm in town. Today was not good as they overseeded the tee boxes and fairways. Every hole had srinklers on and soaking the ground. They moved every set of tee boxes forward so much that every hole had shortened distances of over 100+ yards. The worst part is that there was no mention of work being done to the course when booking. So my 45min drive and rate was demonized by no communication. Horrible experience today.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing

TEMP TEEBOXES AND OVERWATERING

Place would be awesome if they didn’t overwater EVERYTHING and advertised that they have temp tee boxes set up. We were teeing off not once, twice, but THREE times and got blasted by sprinklers. Save your money and call ahead to see what the tee box situation is before you go. Also $18 fkn dollars for 2 hot dogs is insane. Huge mark up on balls too.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Embarrassing

I reached out to the course 2 days ago hoping to hear some kind of regret or apology for what can only be called an embarrassing and miserable golf outing.

3 issues made for a horrific time golfing.

1, Temporary Tees

2. Sprinklers Running Continually

3. Cart Path Only.

When we got to the first tee the sprinklers were running and the temporary tees were flooded. I said I would go back at tell them and one of my partners said "They know" we would just have to work around them.

Added to this was the fact that the carts were cart path only so we pretty much walked 18, second 9 we did a scramble to try to make a miserable experience more enjoyable. Ende up taking 5 hours, not because we play slow but had to avoid water or wat for sprinklers to pass after most shots.. This was not a discounted rate it was just not caring about the customer in any way shape or form.

The temporary tees shortened the course by about a quarter have multiple par 3 less than 100 yds. I understand that happens when doing construction, but when those tee are nothing but mud and water, you should not be taking tee times if you are going to not provide a playable experience. I've played there before and i was quite nice but I would not send anyone there now.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 32
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Previously Played

Give it a miss this week

Played today and have always enjoyed playing here as the course is good and the staff are very friendly and efficient but, we arrived to find that the course had been over seeded and it was cart paths only and temporary tees on all holes, some of which you couldn't play off as they were drenched in water and muddy and slippery as well as making the course a lot shorter. The grass on the fairways was very long and we had to keep dodging the sprinklers so couldn't get to our ball at times. If we had been warned we would have taken a raincheck and booked in a couple of weeks when the course had recovered but as we had pre paid we would probably have lost our money. As previously mentioned it's a nice course to play and I would recommend you give it a go but not for a couple of weeks until it recovers from the overseeing.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Unplayable

I have played this course before and enjoyed it very much. Right now it is UNPLAYABLE.

Temporary Tee Boxes, many muddy and no grass. Fairways reseeded and nice, but they are watering so they are marshes, and the greens have no grass...mostly sand and weeds. the rough and grass around the greens is mostly dead grass and crabgrass. perhaps the worst shape of any course I have seen in years. very disappointing.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Cart path only due to reseeding, was not aware of this. Horrible make shift tee boxes, sprinklers running, greens hard as a glass. This used to be a nice course, sure has gone downhill.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Friendliness Good
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