Blackhawk Golf Club

I played the ladies' tees and it was a little longer than most of the courses in this area. Lots of water hazards--want to play this course again now that I know where they are!

Greens and fairways are in excellent shape. Sand traps were mostly unplayable due to recent rains. Fun course.

I used to play this course on a fairly regular basis, around seven or eight years ago. Haven't been back in a long time for various reasons, but I was excited to play it again as I remembered it being a fun course. Woah boy was I in for a shock!

The course was in extremely poor shape. It's basically like they fired their grounds crew and haven't hired anyone to replace them. The fairways were in awful condition - huge patches of dirt everywhere, huge patches of weeds that were two feet tall or higher, huge swaths of crabgrass and St. Augustine in the fairways and immediately around them, and half the greens were in such bad shape that it was like putting on the surface of the moon with all of it's craters.

On top of that, there was no cart girl like there used to be, the clubhouse was completely run down, and the grill was out of just about everything, and they no longer had the call ahead number posted on the tee markers so you could order food ahead. I ordered a "deli sandwich" off their "Grab-N-Go" menu so as not to slow down our play, and I still had to wait for the only person working the entire grill to make it for me. Even worse, they only offered turkey and ham. To top it off, they were out of lettuce, so I wound up with two slices of pre-packaged turkey on bread (of which there was no choice), with a single slice of American cheese and a single tomato slice. No mayo or mustard offered or available. And I had to wait for the one person working to take three other people's orders and serve them before she made my joke of a sandwich.

Play was extremely slow. It took our foursome five hours to finish 18 holes because we got backed up by another foursome ahead of us who took as long as they wanted. The course marshal was only seen at the first tee box when we started our round, and never seen again.

Needless to say, we won't be returning here to play, especially not at their normal price of $39 each without a cart.

The course was in TERRIBLE condition. Sand traps were rock hard. Fairways had massive mud patches where grass obviously doesn't ever grow. Greens were covered in weeds. Course played SO SLOW. No Marshall and no cart girl. Had a 5-some cut in front of us at turn...where is the Marshall? Will not be back.

The greens were very bad. They had crag grass spots on 90% of the greens and no matter how good a putter you did not have a half a chance to make the putt. They should charge half the price because you can only play half a game. Nothing on the green was make-able unless you were inside a foot.

Are in miserable shape, but this does not include the people in the club house who check you in. They have no personality and the professionalism is completely out the window. The course could be such a beautiful place to play if the grounds keepers could put some work into the areas around the greens as well as the fairways. There are so many weeds around the greens and some of the fairways look like your out hiking in some dirty state park that has peaks and valleys. The back nine is the worse with exception of 18.

For a Texas course on a cool winter day with much too much wind, the course played very nice with wonderful fairways that really helped add to the distance for any good and low hit drives and the greens were very challenging with the grass being so fast and cut low.

Fairways in bad condition, greens worse. $30 on a Friday so I won't complain too much. Would much rather play Shadowglen, similar price and they take care of the course.

Course was wet, but it played fair. Pace of play was awesome. Done in 3 1/2 hours.

Slow fivesome on a Sunday....Really?
Wish the marshal had been paying attention.

It was wet from recent rain but course is nothing special . Nothing to recommend it .

Though the condition was challenging along with sunset in my eyes. I thought, "What would Tiger Woods do if he were in this position?" I pressed on and to my surprise, I developed my swing, and results were impressive.

Course was in average condition. GOLFNOW fees are to high

The back nine is in much better shape than front. Overall, not bad but some issues with weeping heads and wet spots. Weed problems. My main complaint....played late afternoon....NO WATER in any cooler..not even the one in the clubhouse????? It is a fun layout and generally in decent shape...wouldn't take much to improve it.

Blackhawk has a reputation for being kind of a dog track. But you know what? Maybe you're not exactly Pine Valley material yourself!

And that's how you should approach the course. I came in with low expectations, and not only was it not that bad, I actually put together a pretty good round. The greens had recently been punched but were rolling really well; it was well-watered, maybe a little too much; and the bones are there for a really good course. Keep your shots fairly near your intended target, and you'll agree

If your looking for a reasonble price and an ok course to play this will work. I wouldn't recommend a membership here, if you are used to playing resort course the this place will most likely just annoy you. I wasn't asked much less offered the chance to get on the range to warm up, there were balls all over the practice greens, and there was no signage as to where whole #1 and #10 much less anything else.

I like this course as a Challenging place to play.

Excellent pace and up kept. Overall I would play in this course again.

The course was very well maintained. Greens were fast, holes were well set up. One of my favorite courses in Austin so far!

As always, staff is great. Course is in better shape, nice afternoon.