Disney's Lake Buena Vista Golf Course

It really was a great course. It was wet but understandable after the storm. If you’re going expecting a course with a ton of Disney landscaping and the Disney feel you may not experience it as much as you think.

Loved the course, staff very friendly. Definitely will return.

I am 60 years old and my Father-in-Law is 84. We did not know that our round would be Cart Path Only until we arrived to play. 90+ degrees and the only rain in over a week was a shower the day before. I thought the Florida courses were all known for how great they drain and dry out, not this one. The fairways were very sloppy throughout the round. The greens on the front nine were in great condition. Receptive and true rolling. On the back nine they were terrible. Lots of muddy slop all over the course.

It is a fun course and I like it. If it rains in the summer, the course has tendency to get very soggy. Many balls will plug and you may have issues chipping off ground that is saturated. It will be better once the summer rain stops.

Our first round in Florida on this vacation. Pre-booked a week before, based on the weather forecast. On the plus side, it didn't rain! On the down side, it was VERY HOT - up to 98 degrees F.

On checking in, we were told Cart Path Only and carts would stop functioning if we erred on to the grass. So we observed that meticulously. Not all golfers did, it seemed.

The Starter was Vinnie who was very pleasant and explained the course was managed by Arnold Palmer Golf Mgt. and pointed out the features.

He explained the other Disney courses and their relative merits as we awaited our start time. He also said to expect a round time of 4 hours and 40 minutes. We are normally round in at least an hour under that.

For the most part, the fairways are VERY wide. So if you hit away from the cart path, you have a long walk from cart to ball and back. Signs encouraged you to replace and sand divots. Few golfers were doing that as carrying a trowel of sand/seed mix with your club from cart to ball seems pointless. So, basically no-one was doing it and the fairways had more untreated divots than anywhere I've seen. With the heat and slow play, my wife was starting to fade and so we gave up after Hole 14 and 3 hours 40 minutes into the round.

Lastly, and some may think this a little unkind. But this was a fairly BORING course. It is flat, tree-lined most of the time. So, surprisingly for a Disney-branded enterprise, it lacked "CHARACTER".

My wife called the course, to make sure it wasn’t cart path only like the day before at Shingle Creek golf course.

They said that there were no restrictions, fine!

When we arrived on the premises it was cart path only!

After a few holes we noticed that the course wasn’t that wet but it was in bad shape.

The rough was so long that we only saw the ball when we came right over it. The fairways were also long, I was hitting flyers at every shots. We had also mud balls and to top it off, the greens were at 6 on the stimpmeter!

The only positive thing of our day was the staff. From Al the gentleman who greeted us at the bag drop, David the starter, Mark the marshal on the course and Tom when we left the course at the bag drop.

Will we go back there? I don’t think so!!

I’m a CPGA member and all my colleagues will know about my worst golf experience ever!

PS: My wife didn’t write the review,, I’m her husband.

The course was great and the staff was the best. We felt welcome and respected. We were treated like royalty.

Had high hopes, but combination of multiple wet areas on fairways, slow greens and slower play left me disappointed.

Had a lot of fun playing this course. Staff were very professional. The starter was very helpful and the on-course ranger(Mark I think) was very understanding and extremely customer focused

Course was In pretty good condition but greens difficult to judge the pace Some fairways very wet due to the recent rain and cart path only, which was understandable

I have to give a shout out to the Ranger. We were a 4 ball and on the back 9 were being held up by a single (2 of the 4 ball I. Front of us had dropped 2 of the guys and then 1 of the 2 guys in front of us gave up after 11). The ranger came out to explain that the individual in front of us had a disability and was learning to play golf. He totally diffused us getting frustrated and proceed to help the gentleman with the disability so that he no longer he’s us up. Very impressive

First time here greens a little rough. Played with two local men had a good day dispite the rough greens. Enjoyable

It rained every afternoon so the course was soaked. Cart path only of course. Had a family with a five year old hitting balls with a toy putter making it extremely slow. Nothing against them but I couldn’t help moaning at the situation. Layout was good but due to my lack of distance it maid for a very long game in many ways.

This course has really gone down hill.

Granted central Florida has gotten a great deal of rain this summer but that is no excuse for some of the conditions at this course.

The greens were in terrible shape. A lot of dead native Florida grass all along the course. Crab grass all around the greens. Just terrible conditions all around. Thankful to get to play this course with a hot deal but if anyone is looking to play this outside of a hot deal I would advise not too. It is NOT worth the money.

At $80-$110 a round you can find much much better courses not far from Disney.

Storm 9.8 miles away they didn’t allow us to play

Wasted my time

Course was wet (cart path only). Overall very nice course with difficult holes. Staff was awesome and very accommodating. Will definitely play again next time in I’m in Orlando

Great layout. Lots of water on front 9 but the back 9 makes up for it. Neat course!! Must play if you are visiting Disney