Old Corkscrew Golf Club

Toughest course in SW Florida. Many sucker pins. Play to the middle of the greens.

The Good...very challenging requiring pinpoint distance control and accuracy. Good course for professionals.

The Bad...late morning weekday tee times running 15 min late as they worked in groups that showed up late for their tee times. Nice course if you like hitting 4 iron off the tee a lot and flop shots from greenside collection areas sculpted by bulldozers all day. Some greens are comically small or have landing areas that are such. The word "gimmicky" and phrase "through the clown's mouth" were uttered more than a few times.

The Ugly...Warning to those of you that believe COVID is real and potentially dangerous, this course has a "no single rider" cart policy so they will pair you with a stranger to share your cart if you show up as a single or a threesome. Overall, this course is overpriced and the service was subpar for $172. For comparison, Raptor Bay, which I played on Monday, for $120 allowed single riders in carts as a COVID precaution and was a way better value given the golf course quality and playability and overall experience. For context, I am a 10-handicap. Old Corkscrew was just plain annoying in so many ways.

Extremely challenging course, even from white tees. When you're 76 & hit driver 230 yds, it's a huge challenge to hit the well trapped, elevated greens with 3-4 hybrids. Greens fast with many undulations!

Unless you are a low handicap you are in for a very long day, won’t go back

My son, husband and I had the most enjoyable 4 hour round on a very busy Christmas Eve day. The course is challenging you have to actually think & you have to actually make real golf shots. The layout is spectacular and every hole is different than the previous hole. The greens have serious undulations and there is no such thing as a straight putt there, which is pretty cool. The cart girl saw us a couple of times and there are ample bathrooms;)

The staff was friendly and very polite and And we waited a little bit on each hole but it wasn't bad as that was a foursome in front of us and we were a threesome and this was our first time playing this course which gave us some extra time to be able to think carefully about our shots.

Our other favorite course is the Tiburon and we've played about six courses in the Lely area, And so far the Tiburon and Old Corkscrew are favorite courses!

I have played this course around 6 times, and always look forward to coming down to play from Sarasota.

I always enjoy the tough layout and tricky greens.

Unfortunately the course conditions ( mostly the Greens) were awful. 50% of the green was dead with some type of fungus and then coved up with green fairway sand.

They must have used soooo much sand on the greens and surrounding areas that they didn't even have enough left to put on the carts to fill your divots in the fairway. . Both carts in our group had no sand to fix divots. Im sure that was the same with others, as the fairways were in very rough shape.

If your reading this, I would give the course at least 30-60 days before spending any money to play here. We paid $130.00 per person.. and it was hardly worth $40.00 IMO.

I don't like to bash a course.. but I hope I can save someone a big expense for a disappointing experience right now.

Tight fairways and difficult greens but they were sanded when we played. I’m a 11 handicap and I didn’t have any GRs except par 3’s. The restaurant had great chicken salad and tuna sandwiches, with really good staff.

Course was everything and more! Very tough but enjoyable for even a novice. I will definitely be returning.

Love this layout but sandy slow greens all day. The range is also a sand pit with tons of bare spots. Nice staff. Will be back but call ahead for conditions.

Not your plain vanilla golf course here. Fantastic layout with an abundance of pine lined fairways, also a bonus feature of being a "core" golf course with no homes and condos on the property ... a rarity to find in SW Florida.

Conditions are very poor, especially for rhe price. They never seem to improve.

This course is not for the faint of heart,. To shoot par on this course you need to be able to do all the things Jack can (could) do.

Hardest public course you’ll find... Nicklaus design demands 4 hours of attention .... GROWN MAN’S Golf COURSE.