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Ironwood Golf Course
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Ironwood Golf Club has the distinction of being named one of Golf Digest's "Best Places to Play." Owned by the city of Gainesville, this popular course hosts more than 50 tournaments year. The course winds through a scenic landscape covered with century-old pines and sparkling lakes. Don't be surprised if you're joined by the wildlife that calls the course home, which includes deer and wild turkeys. The layout will keep you guessing with interesting twists and turns. The elevated greens have dramatic drops from front to back, making them a challenge to read. There are strategically placed bunkers throughout Ironwood Golf Club, as well as thick rough along the fairways. The obstacles combined with some tricky doglegs will make you think twice about swinging the driver too freely. Strategy, not strength, is the key to doing well on this course.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange | 72 | 6607 yards | 72.4 | 127 |
| Blue | 72 | 6086 yards | 69.2 | 124 |
| Green | 72 | 5589 yards | 66.8 | 118 |
| Green (W) | 72 | 5589 yards | 73.2 | 134 |
| Yellow | 72 | 4805 yards | 65.5 | 111 |
| Yellow (W) | 72 | 4805 yards | 69.0 | 123 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange M: 71.8/130 | 499 | 361 | 421 | 180 | 367 | 217 | 386 | 420 | 528 | 3379 | 146 | 385 | 544 | 414 | 164 | 382 | 342 | 508 | 315 | 3200 | 6579 |
| Blue M: 69.6/125 | 471 | 331 | 385 | 162 | 337 | 197 | 346 | 387 | 492 | 3108 | 135 | 356 | 516 | 395 | 148 | 342 | 311 | 476 | 295 | 2974 | 6082 |
| Green M: 67.3/121 W: 72.4/125 | 438 | 298 | 350 | 145 | 311 | 174 | 322 | 365 | 461 | 2864 | 123 | 321 | 484 | 350 | 134 | 313 | 272 | 445 | 285 | 2727 | 5591 |
| Yellow M: 63.6/112 W: 67.9/116 | 355 | 266 | 328 | 129 | 224 | 152 | 282 | 316 | 375 | 2427 | 110 | 271 | 458 | 312 | 99 | 268 | 230 | 396 | 230 | 2374 | 4801 |
| Handicap | 9 | 13 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 16 | |||
| Par | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 9 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 14 |
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Photo submitted by u9680216 on 03/06/2023
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Photo submitted by u9680216 on 03/06/2023
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Photo submitted by u314161172500 on 01/21/2022
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Photo submitted by juandonis99 on 10/03/2021
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No. 2 green view from fairway. Photo submitted by u314159783524 on 07/27/2020
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9th fairway Photo submitted by hometeamfla on 04/09/2017
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9th fairway... having to tee up to hit, about 200 out from green in middle of fairway. Photo submitted by hometeamfla on 04/09/2017
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#9, looking toward green. All fairways are like this. Photo submitted by hometeamfla on 04/09/2017
Keep it in play or your round will go astray
Nice course for the money. Fairways are lined with woods and palmetto and some holes have some water. If you have a hard time keeping ball in play, you will lose some golf balls. But, the course overall is worth playing.
Good public course.
Ironwood is my favorite public course in Gainesville (being that we only have two currently). Most of the staff is very friendly and the course is in decent condition. The driving range is pretty good, the fairways are pretty good, the greens are fair to good at times depending when you go. The price for 18 with a cart is around $38 at the time of this review. It seems like about a third of the carts have a brake that doesn’t work well. Hopefully they can work on that. Overall I love IronWood and I am happy with the staff , management, and of course.
Greens just got punched and sanded
they just did a heavy aerations and sanding of the greens so if that matters to you i would wait a few weeks to play.
Great round fair price
For what I paid for this round was a steal. Great day Great weather I shot under 80 which is by far the best round I've played yet. Guess luck was on my side. Fairways were nice greens rolled Great just needs a little touch up work on a few greens but other than that Great place friendly staff and friendly and polite golfers on the course.
Some greens are well manicured, others have may brown patches
I last played this course about 6 months ago and it was in better shape. It needs more watering!
Greens - worst I have seen in a while
just like the title, greens were in a very sorry state of disrepair, made putting impossible to judge. rest of the course wasn't all that much better
Okay but greens aren’t good
This course has a fun layout and is relatively tight with tree lines, bunkers, and water. The main downside was the condition of the greens that made it very hard to make decent puts over about 5 feet. Other than that it was a fun course.
Convenient but not great
Greens will test your skills and luck! Very hard and patchy grass on the greens. Fairways and tee boxes we average as usual. Great play to have a good time with buddies but I wouldn’t stake my handicap on that course.
We would play again, but if you require perfection for your rounds, there might be a better option in the area. We had a short window of time to play a round before our day started. The rate was okay at $40 with the cart, but we have played much better courses for the same. There were some really rough patches on fairways and greens. We flew through the course with an 8 a.m. tee time.
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