Blue/Red at Myakka Pines Golf Club

We truly enjoyed playing the Red/White combo today. The course was in good shape and the greens were pretty fast. We played under 4 hours, a miracle for a public course in FL. Super friendly staff. We also saw the “big boy”, pic attached.

I called an hour before our teatime to ask if there was problems with the fog if there was gonna be a delay and the lady informed me that no there was no issue in the golfers were already going out so we went on our way and got over there and it was just totally fogged in, but there was no wiggle room on when we were gonna start our starting time was our starting time so we played the first four holes not seeing anything. Where were the fairways were where the greens were it was kind of crazy beyond that it was just it was all right.

Have played here numerous times in the past and I don't know why I expect conditions to be any better than the last time. The greens are quick (but so is practice green). Grass is dormant but I would have liked a little more green in the fairway. There's a lot of nearby construction from the Wellen Park development. On a few holes on the outer edges of the course we met with quite a bit of dirt/sand from the winds.

The lack of rain has hurt the course like all of Florida. The fairways and rough are in tough shape. They are watering the greens and keeping up with everything else. The greens are like a golfing in a wooden floor. Not much you can do without rain.

Had a group of 4 older gentlemen in front of us, we were two couples. We waited on every hole. Several times after we finished a hole they would only be 50 yards from the next tee box. No rangers around, no beverage cart, many of the fairways had bare spots from lack of water.

I brought a foursome to the course that I booked on golf now and when we showed up we wanted 3 carts so that 2 of the wives who are handicapped and never play golf wanted to ride along with their spouse and enjoy the nice weather and see the birds and such on the course and we were prepared to pay for the third cart that was not offered on Golf Now and did not state thier policy . The course msnsgrmted started that we would have to pay the 77 dollar fee for the extra cart for the wives to ride along and we asked to speak to a manager who was very rude and unwilling to make any exceptions as they were not busy at all on Super Bowl afternoon. We explained that we would not be coming back to this course if this is the way they treat our wives who are handicapped and just wanting to ride along. I will be sure to let all who will listen about the way we were treated. Bad management decision on her part. We would not have objected to paying a cart fee and we told her that and she refused. She had an opportunity to take care of a good customer who would have brought many people to this course but we will go to Heron Creek or other courses in the area were they value customers and treat them with the respect deserved.

Course condition, pace of play and enjoyment factors were all great. Aprés golf sadly let down by lack of somewhere to eat and enjoy good company.

It was great to see a driving range that you can test any club in your bag including driver. The starter was quite efficient and very organized.

I've never seen that many alligators on one course (none were too scary) but it kinda took my mind off some poor shots by me.

We had lunch afterwards where we enjoyed a couple of sandwiches but the Caesar salad with chicken was very underwhelming and small.

There is some construction adjacent from the course which gave our group a bit of sadness as it removes some of the 'wilderness' aspect of this course.

Too much construction creating poor atmosphere

Starter had no idea what he was doing as I showed up 40 minutes early, hit some balls and returned 10 minutes before tee time. He then went to see with other starter and didn’t return. I chased him down after waiting 8 minutes to only find out the group I was with was already on tee box

No ball washers on cart

No beverage cart for all 18 holes was to be seen

Pace was super slow

GPS does not allow cart into lo to unload clubs. Family members have worked at various courses in VA and Nj..

A scam to try for a second "tip" after tipping ar the bag drop. 50 years of golf....never seen this before

P.s. "members" are allowed to drive into lot. Much safer drivers, i presume. Smells like a scam.