Birkdale Golf Club

The fairways have been overseeded and very nice to hit off from. The greens are in good condition for the first of April. The white tee boxes are somewhat beat up but playable. Overall it is in good condition. Pace of play was great since it was Easter morning. We finished in 4 hours which is great for a public course

I enjoy this course - the diversity in the layout, the degree of difficulty is just about right for me (10-12 handicap. I mix the blue and white tees depending on the distance.

Pace of play can be slow - I like to play "ready-golf" makes everyone's experience more satisfying.

Course is in fairly good condition for Feb/March

Course is in pretty good shape since the last time I played they had just aerated the greens.

Enjoyed playing. Met a very friendly gentleman to play with. Ease of an out of town player setting up a round was great.

Played the black tees and enjoyed the layout. Most holes have good shape, with fairway bunkers and a few water hazards. However, some holes have some poor design features IMHO, such as #9 and #11 which both have very large trees that block approach shots from the center or right side of the fairway (makes no sense to me). Hole #17 had a HUGE area of ground under repair right in front of the green (I'm sure this will be fixed once warmer weather comes).

I was disappointed to see they did not allow separate carts during COVID and did not have dividers. I decided to walk for this reason even though the deal included cart fee and I WOULD NOT walk this course again. There are a few lengthy walks between holes and some steep hills (the walk between #9 green and #10 tee about killed me, trying to keep up with the rest of my group who all rode).

All that said, I will definitely keep this course in my rotation of public courses to play...but only as a course to get a cart when playing.

Course was in pretty good shape. Soggy in many places.

I have played this course many times. There have been a lot of improvements. The greens have gone from total crap to very nice! Great job.

That is not the problem. The issue is the course is being over-seeded and the fairways are extremely long. Rough length. My issue is changing full price knowing the course was in this condition. It would have been fair to offer a discount or at least disclose the work. Unfortunately, they didn’t do any of these things.

Additionally, the place of play was abysmal. 2.5 hours for 9 holes. I get it’s cart path only because of the work, but disclosing the work may have cut down on the amount of play.

Should have done what the Highlands did. Shut the course down for a few days and charge less the first week after opening. That was fair.

They should be closed during reseeding.

Fairways uncut and wet and muddy.

Unplayable.

The course was great, I really enjoyed the 9 I got to play. However, they shouldn’t have allowed it to be open to the public yesterday. There was a scramble tournament and no where to go for public golfers. I only played 9 because it took 3.5 hours. Very frustrating, however the course was amazing and in good condition.

I like the course layout. However, they had just over seeded so carts were restricted to cart paths. But that was not the problem. They had way overwatered the course for the over seed. Most fairways were mushy with a lot of standing water. A number of tee boxes were so soggy that we had to find alternate places to tee off. I will certainly play the course again because I like the layout--but I will wait a while. No warning on the website that the conditions would be like this.