Royal St. Augustine Golf and Country Club

Overall, course was in good shape, great value.

Pros:

Staff was great

Value

Cons:

Condition of greens

Amenities

I've played this course many times in the past, but the course is in the worst shape I have ever seen. Didn't even see any signs of effort to improve it. Greens are full of weeds, hard to tell fairways from rough, club house starting to fall apart, Do not play here.

I always loved this course but right not it is in the worst shape I have ever seen it.

This course has hit a new low for course conditions on the front 9 holes. The first hole "green" is a temp flag hole 100 yards short of the normal green in the fairway. No maintenance work appears to be ongoing on the extremely poor regular green. Progressively worse conditions have been ongoing on the front nine since reopening mid last year after the Covid shutdown. Weeds, missing grass of any sort, throughout fairways and tee boxes is prevalent. EVERY green has significant weeds that are part of the putting surface. A sad situation for a one-time great golf location. The current ownership is sucking the life out of a once proud and enjoyable golf course.

Course conditions were awful. Like playing in a swamp land. Greens were nonexistent and like playing on backyard grass

This place used to have good grass and bunkers. It was a nice tight course that required accuracy. They have really let this place go. I chipped from the fringe with my face open and hit 2 inches behind the ball. Got my ball stuck in a green bunker a few times. Will not be back here for a while until they get this under control.

I would normally recommend this course as a fun one to play, however the greens were probably the worst I’ve ever played on or seen in my life. The grounds crew has their work cut out for them to get this mess playable.

Tee Boxes and Greens are the worst I have ever see there. Staff is great. Bar was fun but course was rough

Played this course 7-8 times when I first started playing it was tolerable after those couple of times it went downhill so quick. Greens have multiple different types of grass most are completely sand filled, fairways are brown, tee boxes are absolutely horrible I’m sad this course went downhill

I saw all of the negative reviews and was debating playing this course, however the reviews were 100% correct. The greens were for sure the worst part, the entirety of every green had weeds growing out of them, it was very hard to putt. The fairways were 50% dirt, tee boxes looked awful. I would practically consider $50 a scam. I could play twice as nice of a course where i live for $20. It is sad that they call this a country club when there are nicer municipal courses. The only positive thing about this course is the hard layout. Very narrow. If you are considering playing here, I would find another place.

Although there has been a lack of rain, the conditions were not good at all

Poor excuse for a golf course. Abysmal conditions. Greens were unplayable. Tee boxes bare. Should be embarrassed to charge what they do. Don’t be fooled by website. Stay away from this one.

I have never seen a course with such poor lack of care and mainitence. Uncut tee boxes, greens that look like pot holes, covered in crab grass, tee boxes unlevel, weeds and mold covering fences. I have pictures. No water, no ball washers, worn off paint for yard markers, terrible sand in traps. The place is a wreck. When I specifically asked about course conditions, I was not told about what horrible condition the greens were in. Only that they were punched. This woman I am sure has never seen the condition of the greens. I could not count my round score, the putting surface was in such bad condition. Large areas of fairway were totally dead and brown, or covered in sand.

As a person in their mid-50s, I've played a host of course in my lifetime -- dog tracks included.

But this just may be the worst-maintained course I've ever played. There is not a single redeeming aspect of this course. I played the course the first week of June 2022, which should be when courses are in their prime condition.

No such luck here.

The tee boxes are barren and the fairways aren't much better. And the greens are an embarrassment -- a third of them have sections that have absolutely no grass on them while the others are mostly crabgrass.

And to make matters worse the people that work there do not see to care. When I voiced my opinion to the person working the Pro Shop I received a weak "I'm sorry" with a shrug.

GolfNow should remove this course as an option for players because it simply lacks any basic standard of a working golf course.