Royal St. Augustine Golf and Country Club

Fairways are dirt. Greens are dirt. WORST conditions I have ever played.

Not played here for a year. The course is in terrible condition.

Greens fairways and bunkers all awful.

Such a shame

I mean was my day fun? Yes, I was playing golf and not working. With that said though, the course was in terrible shape. The greens were ate up and the fairways incredibly spotty. I don’t remember this course being in such bad shape before.

Friendly staff and nice amenities. Greens could use a little work. Great food and drinks. Shannon and Barb are terrific!!!

This wasn’t the first time I’ve played 18 at The Royal, won’t be my last but won’t be back for a while. I booked a solo tee time for 08:00 for 18. Upon arrival, the man with the clipboard at the beginning of the course grouped me with a set of 3 other players. This should not have been done, and he did not give me an option to opt out of group play. The “starter” as he labeled himself needs to be more polite when addressing people. On a course note, the greens were patchy and inconsistent. Otherwise the course is beautiful. Please, if someone books a solo spot for themselves, let them play by themselves…..was not happy with that.

Needs some water and maintenance . Fairways and greens were burnt out with lots of bare spots. One tee box was more like a bunker. Left after nine holes!

2nd time playing there and course keeps going down hill fast. Haven't mowed in weeks because weeds are only thing growing. Greens are as dead as fairways.

I liked everything about the place but the course. It was baked, sandy and the grass was extremely spotty. The greens were in bad shape. Each hole has hazards on both sides all the way down each hole. The very skinny fairways and what little rough there is slopes towards the hazards on both sides. There is pretty much a 5 to 10 yard strip of safe landing zone down the middle of each fairway and if you don't land it there, you're probably in trouble. Driver is almost never a good option and laying up is almost mandatory on many holes just because of how much hazard area there is. Super difficult in a not fair or fun way.

I remember when they were practically begging people to play Royal St. Augustine..a round, bucket of balls, hotdog and a soda or beer for $18 after 2pm…the course was good (not great) but for all that the price included you couldn’t complain….but $55 in the morning and $38 in the afternoon is almost an insult to anyone, whether beginner or single digit player. I’ve played Royal a couple hundred times and have always come back no matter the condition or sometimes steep price but this may have been my last time. Staff seemed as upset as the golfers and more likely because they were hearing the gripes and complaints of paying too much for a dirt track. There were tee boxes that looked like sand traps and green side bunkers with more grass in them than the tee boxes. I understand that they recently underwent ownership change but this place has too much ground to get back to the Royal of even as recent as two years ago.

Beautiful course needing some TLC in the irrigation department. Fairways and some greens extremely dry. That being said, it may be due to drought conditions. Otherwise a very nice course.

We arrived before our tee time, however the proshop took nearly 20 minutes to check us in because there was a 4some who walked in before us and their computer system is that slow. When we got to the first tee the starter was rude to us about being late! Then there's the course. I have never paid full price for a course in such poor condition. If I would have been by myself, I would have demanded a refund after about 3 holes. The greens are dead. There is no grass. If there is a little grass, it is far away from the hole. The tee boxes are a joke. One of the people in our group joked he had never had a bunker tee shot before. Seriously it was soft sand and you had to dig your fee in while you're hitting driver on a par 4. Whatever you do avoid this course. I know I won't be playing there again.

I’ve got to say the course May have been beautiful at one time. The greens are hard as a rock and unmaintained. The sand traps have weeds growing and no rakes. The fairways and tee boxes have not seen water in I can’t tell you how long. It seemed as though the front 9 were worse off than the back 9, but still in terrible shape. It’s hard to believe they have not closed the course for a few weeks to get the course back into the shape it deserves. In one of the golf Mecca’s of the states, the course has got to be loosing valuable dollars to the world golf courses, TPC Sawgrass, and other public courses in a 20 mile radius of this course.

My opinion, shut down two weeks to revamp and beautify this course! Otherwise your going to continue to bleed cash! You need to keep pace with your competition. You have a great layout, challenges, and unbelievable natural hazards.

Course is rough shape to say the least. Not worth the money. It’s really a free for all after noon. First tee box had a 30 min wait. A few tee boxes are completely sand. No marshals, starter or cart girl.

Never been a favorite course to play although reasonable priced the front nine has not seen water for weeks. There are more weeds than grass. More bare lies with zero grass, green are terrible. The back nine is much better and we ended not hating the course as much.

Are they giving up on this course?