Red/White at Myakka Pines Golf Club

Enjoyed my round, greens were in great shape. Not crowded, definitely will play here again.

The whole course was saturated. Cart path only in effect except the paths were flooded as well. I guess due to all the renovations the public needs to pay for it. If I could of gotten a rain check I would of.

While most other area courses are priced $20-30 higher a round for no better conditions Myakka pines is keeping it affordable

Well, in light of the 1.5 inches of rain the night before, and Hurrucane Helene 5 days earlier, course probably shouldn't have been open, or I should have canceled my prepaid tee time. Lots of standing water in fairways & rough, over a foot of water in sand cart paths. Greens obviously not cut in over a week, so it was long and slow. However, staff was very friendly. So, I recommend the course, but not after a rain, and staff probably should have recommended against playing, knowing how wet it was.

Every hole was wet. It was not fun. You were soaking wet after the third hole course was built on a swamp and it seems like it never dries out.

Booked an afternoon tee time and brought along my wife and two kids. Oldest is 3 and has about 100 rounds under his belt. Youngest is 1-1/2 and she has rode along since week one. Get to the course to see an almost empty parking lot. Maybe two other groups on the course. I’m told in the pro shop that the members do not allow kids or people that are not playing on the course. The lady is kind enough to say we can play but if a member asks you to leave that we must do so. I tell her that’s a little weird but say okay.

We end up getting through 8 holes in about an hour and on the ninth hole, the lady from the pro shop comes out with the cart barn guy to say that a member has complained and we must leave. Meanwhile the closest we got to another group was maybe two holes away and my kids were more behaved than most kids at restaurants.

Overall weird experience and I’d hope this is the only public course like that. I’ve had my family at private clubs and was never treated in this manor. I mean, it’s 4:00PM on a Sunday at a course posting $30 tee times in the most dead time of the season…. You have to be kidding me people! Absolutely pathetic and a disgrace to golf.

It’s a real shame because the course has a fun layout surrounded by nothing but Florida nature.

Using a hot deal and my monthly credit, Myakka Pines was incredibly worth the fees. Not a single house on the course since it is more like playing in a natural reserve or park. Pace of play quick enough since I was playing in the heat of September.

The course was built on a swamp very very wet got done, playing shoes, and clothes, all wet

Several improvements to air flow and cart paths. Still need to fill in most of the bunkers on the course - there are some over 75 yards long.

Just want to say thanks for the friendly course staff all around and the food court staff too.

Very friendly staff that wanted us to salvage a golf game on a very soggy course. We had a great time connecting that nature made it wet.

Thanks again to everybody

Problems from beginning to end. You can’t take golf cart to car to load up. Have to carry everything to the cart from your car. The greens were rough on blue and white courses like they were just topped off. Pretty plain holes with just straight fairways. No variety. The course was very wet. Had to stay on cart path only. I wish there was a way to get conditions of courses before you book. Since we couldn’t drive cart to car, again we had to carry everything. When we went back to get other items, attendant handed us our cup. We felt like he was in too much hurry to clean cart. We didn’t get to check over cart . We didn’t get one phone. After making it home we realized we needed to make another trip to course to pick it up. We won’t recommend this course to anyone.

Had we known the course conditions from the rain we would never have played. The driving range being closed was an indication of what was to come. We knew it was cart path only but what they did not tell us that there were ponds of water 5-6 inches deep everywhere. We could not walk to some of our balls that were in or just off the fairway. Our ball retrievers were not long enough to use. Water was over our shoes in many places. The traps were filled with water. I was particularly upset the driving range was close as I had a new driver I wanted to checkout. The management offered us nothing for what I considered an unplayable course and a loss of golfballs due to not being able to get to them.