Pine Barrens at World Woods Golf Club

This piece of ground is an amazing layout to drive to for a special golf paradise experience. Course has been there for 30+ yrs and it shows in certain places and it will be a travesty if the new owners come in and tear it apart!
The tranquility among the hundreds of Oak trees with the hanging air moss makes this golf experience like no other public golf place. Its about the golf, not the clubhouse which it should be. Its about meeting golfers of all ages and locations enjoying this special layout using every club in your golf bag. Check it out soon before the new owners come and potentially screw up this special expereince.

Driving up the entrance you can see that they have not maintained the property as the asphalt was buckling and the gate house was unoccupied. Very friendly inside at check in and starter at first tee very knowledgeable. Fairways were green and almost looked like bent grass. Greens were in excellent shape and on the smallish side. Lots of workers cutting and blowing leaves off course. This was best course I have played in the area. Would I pay $100 to play here? No but at $50-$60 is an excellent value. Course has been purchased by Cabot Links out of Nova Scotia Canada. They are going to close it down this summer for 18 months and redo both courses, clubhouse, etc. Going to be a destination spot in 2023.

Been a couple months since I played at World Woods...Pine Barrens was "healing" in nice shape. Greens were overall good and the rest of the course in fine shape. Always a treat to play at World Woods!

Fantastic layout and conditions. Worth the 2.5 hour drive from my home. Played the Pine Barrens course and the par three course. Extraordinary practice areas, as well.

Great layout, course in good shape. I would go 4.5/5. Playing this course makes you feel like you are not in Florida. Greens not super fast but rolled well. Few greens had small dead spots, but doesn't change my opinion of the course. Staff was very friendly. 4 hours & 10 minutes to finish our round as foursome. Will definitely return in the future.

Greens could have been better. Live course layout but bummed about green conditions.

As many accolades as this course got previously, the reviews lately are accurate. The greens are struggling. Infrastructure is dated. The layout is fantastic, which makes the putting surfaces so much more disappointing. The rest of the course is still quite well maintained. Patchy grass over black algae/disease on the greens and far more damp than they should be given the season, allowing the disease to thrive. It may not be as simple as a bake out, but there's nothing being done to improve the greens other than a few spots with old holes used to plug some repairs. Depressing, but I had to see if the reviews were true for myself. I probably would have been better off not seeing how poor the conditions are, and just how great of a design it is. I'd deal with broken cart paths for good putting surfaces.

The layout and design of this course is truly special in the state of Florida and a joy to navigate, even in spite of its difficulty for a higher handicapper like myself. That said, the cart paths are in serious need of redoing and some trees have clearly overgrown their intended design, so it could overall use a little upkeep. Greens were also a bit patchy. Pace of play was a bit slow, 4 1/2 hours to finish as a twosome. Overall though, I still would greatly recommend this beautiful track, and also as the slightly more interesting of the two over Rolling Oaks. Sand was in great shape, which is especially impressive with how much of it this track boasts.

The clubhouse may not be the Taj Mahal or the oaths the smoothest but the courses are well kept and beautiful to play!

Arrived and was told cart path only due to overseeding !! Nothing on website to indicate that ! Fairways were like hitting out the rough ! Traps were terrible no maintenance done in awhile . Rakes were unavailable on most holes Greens were in terrible condition! Have played this course numerous times over a 20 year period & sorry to say it will be my last time . Rumor has it that it’s to sold & hopefully the new owner will return the course adequate condition. Talked to person in pro & was treated like they don’t care at all ! My advice would be to play elsewhere until under new management!!!