Baytree National Golf Links

I've always enjoyed Baytree's challenging layout. But I was a bit nervous to book the tee time after reading some recent negative reviews.

I gotta say, they must have been playing a different course. The course looked GREAT. Every green was in great shape. Fairways were good (the ones I had the pleasure of hitting from). I was very impressed with the quality of the course, and quite surprised by those recent negative reviews. Even the range had really nice grass to hit from!!!

Only thing I can complain about (not even that big of a deal) is the cart seemed to have some loose suspension in the front - it seemed to wobble/shift around while driving... I think it was Cart #5.

But I definitely recommend Baytree if you're looking for a good challenge. It was in GREAT shape when I played it on 3/14/25.

Teeboxes, fairways, bunkers and greens all good. Greens had varying speeds relative to the grain growing towards the sun. Very smooth. The 16th par 5 was immaculate. Take care of this course folks. Divots and ball marks. Yours plus another.

Have played this course 4 to 5 times each year we've come to Florida for the winter and have always enjoyed the layout. Conditions are always good to better than good every year. One main gripe is that pace of play the last few times has been horrendous as rounds have taken around 4:45-5:00 hours to finish. When I pointed this out to staff the response was that gps monitors pop but commented most gofers just ignore the warning on the screen.. I told him if that's the case then they need to get a body, i.e. staff member out to the back up and move the slow groups along. He also said it was a very busy day which there in lies another problem - tee times are 7 minutes apart, way to close.. Made for a very frustrating round of golf.

I usually play this course and am generally very pleased. This particular day it was very backed up. At the scheduled tee time there were 8 carts waiting at the first tee. Never found out what caused it (there may have been some earlier event). The starter did a great job organizing, however, and once we teed off waiting was not too bad. We only missed 1 hole due to darkness. So what could have been a disaster turned out okay.

Decent course. Was a bit disappointed. Conditions were not great. Fairways bit rough. More than a few bare spots all over. Greens were all tore up. Disappointing

Bay tree has improved this year. The greens are in better shape.

The greens were in great shape. My buddies and I enjoyed the game.

Too many people watching too much golf on TV…no-one even looks at their putt, until the person before is finished, everyone looks at it from all 4 sides, everyone straddles the line…and then no-one holes a thing…it’s a nightmare to take the best part of 5 hours to play in carts…we walk and carry back home, and are generally round in 3 1/2 hours…never more than 4 hours…