Kiva Dunes Golf Course

Nice course, greens are great and roll very nice, will play again when in the area.

Great greens and wonderful bunkers. Super windy and dry conditions made for a unique round. Busy course but we still finished in well under 4 hours. Course is meant for advanced players.

In a week staying at the the resort I was able to play the course at Kiva Dunes twice. It was a cold and sometimes rainy week, but things turned out great for me and my group. In both rounds we had the course to ourselves. No pace of play issues as we were able to make our way around the grounds unhindered by other golfers.

Kiva Dunes Resort is an amazing facility with lots of great lodging options, fantastic dining (though limited in winter) and a very friendly staff.

The golf course is a fun stretch of mostly back and forth links style holes. There are plenty of lakes and swamps to avoid during the round. Fairways are quite wide and generous. Driver is a good option on most holes that are not a par 3.

Look out for a few directional posts in the fairway to guide blind tee shots. While the course is pretty flat, players have a few decisions to make off the tee. Especially on the great par 4 ninth and possibly driveable short 10th. The closing stretch gives a nice test leading back to the iconic clubhouse building.

Starting with the par 5 15th with a tough elevated green, hole 17 is a difficult par 3 with water all the way up the left, and the closing hole demands a good tee shot while avoiding water down the right side.

While the course lacks a variety of hole shapes, the green complexes are anything but boring. Many of the greens are elevated, large, and most have multiple levels to put hole locations. Shots left in the wrong spot are a three put waiting to happen.

Conditions at Kiva were very good, definitely the greenest we saw in south Alabama that week. Fairways and tee boxes were well manicured. The greens were very firm and rolled quite fast. There are some changes in grain making them difficult to read in some spots. Tricky, but quite fun to putt on!

Overall this is a very fun golf course. There is plenty out there for both novice and scratch golfers to enjoy. The course is not punishing off the tee and there are plenty of opportunities to score. All in a beautiful setting near the gulf. A must play when in South Alabama!

Other then the slow play, everything else was great. Nice course, plays long, quick greens.

Hurricanes and staff have made this tract much more playable by removing wilderness trees. New greens are awesome as well. They are also the only course I have found with green dyed fairways. That is a welcome sight in winter.

Course as a whole was very dry with some extreme dried out areas. Greens ran very fast and most could not hold a shot. Ground crews removing foliage in several areas and the once attractive course looks so barren that some holes look unrecognizable.

If your going for lunch it’s nice but if your going for golf think again. This may have at one time been a beautiful golf course and ranked high but it is not anymore. It is overpriced the first thing it says on golfnow is it’s on a beautiful piece of property on the gulf of Mexico. Well the golf course has no view of any water but the hazards, the trees have been all ripped out in between the different fairways. Don’t waste your hundred bucks on this course very disappointed.

The course layout and conditions were great. The pace of play was excruciating. Some self-absorbed group found a quasi-Ryder Cup thing took so long that we were left in the dark(literally). It's a resort course with old, slow folks and the aforementioned group tying up things. Too bad. It's a great course

Lots of brown turf, greens fast and course getting a lot of foliage removed

Greens were fast but true, course was in amazing shape for late January. 3 hour 20 minutes for a round , never had to wait on a single tee box. Or fairway

Great course layout. Well maintained. Drains after rain exceptionally well and wildlife on the course is an added attraction.

This golf course was amazing and fun to play! A must play if you're in Alabama. The staff was very friendly, and the pro shop was great. I will be playing this course again in the near future.

If I’m looking for complaints-green speeds were inconsistent. Tee boxes were uneven at times. Now that the bad stuff is out of the way. It was an absolutely beautiful course. Not at all intimidating. I do recommend eating before or plan to eat right after because there is no clubhouse visits at the turn as you don’t come to it.

The price was a bit high but the course itself was very nice. The extra care that a great course would take was not seen here. The edges were frayed with no color that helped its image. Between the uprights it was extremely cared for!

This course is very demanding and has a ton of undulations. There are not many flat spots in the fairways or on the greens. Its borderline ridiculous. I enjoyed playing it but its not an everyday course because it wears you out with the slopes and wierd lies. Great staff, great course layout, too tough. I'm glad i played it from the tips but too many other good courses out there for me.