Disney's Palm Course: #6
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4.4
968 Reviews (968)
5 Stars
496
4 Stars
343
3 Stars
76
2 Stars
28
1 Stars
25
Conditions
4.4
Value
4.1
Layout
4.6
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.4
90.7%
Recommend this course
873 out of 968 reviews
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4.4
49 Reviews (49)
5 Stars
34
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3
Conditions
4.6
Value
4.2
Layout
4.7
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.5
StaffFriendliness
4.7
89.8%
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44 out of 49 reviews
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4.4
61 Reviews (61)
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4 Stars
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Conditions
4.4
Value
4.1
Layout
4.6
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.6
88.5%
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54 out of 61 reviews
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Course Highlights
The Palm Course delivers a highly-rated layout with entertaining holes, strong tee boxes, and well-regarded green complexes that consistently impress. Attentive, friendly staff elevate the Disney experience with thoughtful touches that make every round feel welcoming.

About

Holes 18
Type Resort
Par 72
Length 6840 yards
Slope 134
Rating 73.3

The 18-hole Palm Course at Walt Disney World Golf Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL is a resort golf course that opened in 1971. Designed by Joe Lee and Rocky Roquemore, Palm Course at Walt Disney World Golf Resort measures 6840 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 134 and a 73.3 USGA rating. The course features 4 sets of tees for different skill levels. Greens and fairways are bermuda grass.

The natural Florida woodlands provide a stunning backdrop to one of America's premier resort courses. Architect, Joe Lee, designed the 6,870-yard Palm with elevated tees and greens. The key ingredient, of course, was the Florida palm and he made good use of nearly every variety for aesthetic and strategic purposes. Its fairways are crafted through a pine forest of mature, natural woodlands that includes moss-dappled oak, maple and cypress trees. Palmetto scrub fills the forest floor. It boasts of more than its share of water and sand with nine water holes and 94 bunkers.

This is a perfect choice for everything from a casual round to a large group outing.

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Course Details

Year Built 1971
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees (with GPS)
GPS 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 VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Dress code Proper golf attire consists of a polo-style shirt with collar, turtleneck or mock turtleneck shirt, and slacks or Bermuda-length shorts.

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities
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Reviews

4.4
968 Reviews (968)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 16
19th Hole Scenic Views 7
Brunch 6
Course Challenges Include:
Water Hazards 68
Bunkers 57
Undulating Greens 37
This course/club is great for:
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 48
Advanced Golfers 46
Locals 33
This Course's Location is:
Near Local Attractions 63
At a Resort 56
Convenient to the City 30

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Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Pace of play

As with some of the other comments made the pace of play was terrible. We were paired up so played as a four ball but it took us over two and half hours to play nine holes. We were concerned about being able to finish due to light but as luck would have it the four ball in front of us when in after nine holes. It still took us another two and half hours to complete our round. During the hole time of our round we never saw a Marshall to try and speed up play. Slow play is a constant problem but nothing is done to try and over come this they just try and get as many golfers on the course as they can. Which for us spoilt our impressions of the course.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Beautiful course

Great round of golf ! Greens were fast and some really tough holes. Can't wait to play it again.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Good experience

Playing some other Disney golf course. So very happy of it. The course was in great shape.

Corporate golf tournament in the morning. So late in the schedule. 51/2 for a 18 holes....oups !!!

Weather was great...it was a great golf day.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Bergsy

course was in good shape. very challenging. I would highly recommend for anyone to play

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Average weather
Used cart

Good course condition but that is not enough...

First start with the good parts. The course is very nice to play and the condition of the greens are really good. The rest of the course is fine as well.
Now to the bad parts...
The pace of play is terrible. I teed of before 1500 and was barely finished before the dark, the putting on the last green was hard in the lack of daylight...
Also there were no ranger visible on the course during the whole round to speed up play, this is not acceptable.
Another bad thing was the food from the cart, i bought a wrap that was not fresh, it was frozen and the bread was soft and wet, not at all as expected.
Still i hope Disney can improve, the course is too good to not recommend.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

New greens were in great shape.

New greens were in great shape. Excellent re-design. New bunkers were much deeper than old ones. Plenty of water in play. Lots of wildlife to be seen. Will definitely be back.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Nice course, but....

... I was slightly disappointed, maybe due to my higher expectations of a PGA Tour-quality course. Greens were slow and didn't roll true - maybe needed to be cut shorter.

Pace of play was OK on front 9 but slowed down drastically in the back 9 due to the short par-5s that just about everybody thought they could hit that miraculous shot from 250 yards and get on the green in 2. Bu is Mickey's fantasy world so I guess this was as good a place as any to act like Tiger.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

good time

good time..lots of wildlife....lost quite a few balls on back 9 lol

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
4.0
Previously Played

nice course. head pro has a poor attitude

I had a nice time on the couse. Even though they were fixing tee boxes and had machine's running while hitting. No one was behind my group and since the course was a little wet we played lift clean and place. On hole 7 or 8 I was hitting my approach shot and as I went to pick my ball to clean mud off a man in a cart off to the side started yelling at our group to hurry up. I thought this was pretty rude since this is one of thentoughest shots on the course and he couldnt wait till afterwards to tell us to pick up the pace. Not only that but there was no one behind us. I believe the group was on the previous holes tee box. What did he want me to do hit thenball with mud on it. Vey unprofessional. This guy happened tonbe thenhead pro which disapointed me even more. I appreciate himbuying our drinks but hencould have come up to ourngroup and appologized in person. For this reason I willnnot be.going back to this course since there are course just as nice and nicer in the area for the same price.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Wonderful

Golf course is beautiful.Even though i didn't play well, I Loved playing it.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great challenges with great rewards if your hitting well

Great course excellently maintained , the greens were lightening fast with no give, the course set up is very challenging giving you the chance to play safe or really go for it to reap the rewards if you make the shot

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 32
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Fast Greems

Found the course in good shape, greens were hard with my short irons I was able to stop the ball. We played in 15--25 mph. Had a great time. Lots of wildlife out there.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Very disappointing for a Disney World golf course !

Three friends played the Palm Course which was updated this past year; we had played course also in January 2014. Course is in poor condition: too many dry areas, too many spot sod plantings that didn't live, poorly edged sand traps, super hard greens where there were no divots, no indentations because greens are rock hard. We had way too many lawn leaf blowers and edgers all over the course with little regard for players. Electric carts come without ice, so if you want ice, you drive to side of building and use a 20 year old ice machine that barely works. At end of round, you ask about air compressor to blow off shoes, and you're told by staff, "Oh, the compressor never works, but it's on other side of building." This compressor didn't work this past January either; who's in charge of this place? Net: a very disappointing day. I suspect that a non-golfer is managing the course and getting praise for cutting expenses while the course declines. For a great golf experience, play the Celebration Golf Course just 3 miles away, or even the Disney Lake Buena Vista Course. We will not return to Palm.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great day of golf

There was a little mix up with the tee time and I was a single player so I waited until the
foursomes teed off and then played with another single.Still had a great day of golf. I always enjoy playing Disney courses.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 27
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Prettiest course on Disney

This course is easily the best looking course on Disney's property... perhaps closely rivaled by Waldorf. When I played this course I found it to be in excellent condition with beautiful scenery (past hole 4). This course played 4-5 shots easier than Magnolia and for my money was more enjoyable.

The stretch of holes from 13-17 are some of the best holes in central Florida highlighted by the par 5 14th. Big Break Disney Golf was filmed here and it was cool to see some of the shots hit from that series on this course.

This is my favorite Disney course by far.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

great course, despite the recent rain, plyed well and was challengeing

great course, despite the recent rain, played well and was challenging.
Pace of play was good.
I rented the clubs but these were in god shape.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing

Good course, below expectations.

The course was nice and had some good holes. However, nothing was really memorable and the playersdo a poor job of helping to maintain the course; ball marks, divots, etc.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Good course, Bad Greens

Unfortunately, the greens were aerated prior to my play on this course. The track was good, but the greens were in poor condition. I was aware of this prior to play, however the greens were worse than expected.

Staff was friendly, pace of play was good.
With healed greens, this would be a good course.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 15-19
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

The staff was attentive and the fairways were in great condition. Greens could use attention

Course was in good condition and staff was friendly. The greens were a bit rough with complete bare patches on some of them. Overall the day was good but for the price spent on the day I would have expected a bit better.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great experience

From the check in, to the beverage service on the course, the experience was superb. Disney has done a great job with their employees. I will be back!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
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