GC of Houston - Tournament: #1
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4.5
943 Reviews (943)
5 Stars
581
4 Stars
237
3 Stars
68
2 Stars
30
1 Stars
27
Conditions
4.4
Value
4.1
Layout
4.7
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.3
90.3%
Recommend this course
853 out of 943 reviews
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4.2
17 Reviews (17)
5 Stars
7
4 Stars
8
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.1
Value
3.9
Layout
4.5
Pace
3.7
Amenities
4.3
StaffFriendliness
4.5
94.1%
Recommend this course
16 out of 17 reviews
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4.4
57 Reviews (57)
5 Stars
34
4 Stars
15
3 Stars
4
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
1
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.0
Layout
4.6
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.2
StaffFriendliness
4.6
87.7%
Recommend this course
50 out of 57 reviews
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Course Highlights
The championship-caliber layout delivers fast greens, well-maintained bunkers, and fairways that consistently impress golfers seeking a genuine tournament-style challenge. Helpful and welcoming staff, quality practice facilities, and a solid bar and restaurant round out an outstanding overall experience.

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Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 7425 yards
Slope 144
Rating 76.0
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Course Details

Year Built 2005
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Rees Jones (2005) David Toms (2005) Greg Muirhead (2005)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Caddies Yes
Clubs Yes - included

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes - "Mike McGetrick Golf Academy"
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes
Practice Hole Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No

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Reviews

4.5
943 Reviews (943)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 17
Dinner 10
Watching the Game 8
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 37
Water Hazards 33
Forced Carries 24
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 32
A Weekend Splurge 25
A Bucket list/Top 100 Pick 20
This Course's Location is:
Near the Airport 37
Convenient to the City 26
Worth the Drive 20

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Played On
Reviews 18
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Baking in the fairway

They day I decided to play happened to be on the warm side with real feel temp around 103. Aside from that the course was incredible. The greens were speedy, but not tough to read. Fairways were good and the rough made you pay. All the traps, which I saw plenty of were perfect. That's what you get 2 months after the Houston Open. This is one of my favorite courses in Houston and for that rate you gotta play.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 24
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Amazing as usual.

Place is always in great shape. Our caddie was a great guy. Bennie is awesome!

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Golf Club of Houston

Caddy was excellent with good knowledge of the course and greens.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

The course is by far the best course in Houston.

We really enjoyed the tee box, layout, fairway and greens(it's fast). Overall experience was great! Love it.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great course but overall not great golfing experience

Clearly a great golf course in fantastic shape, and this combined with its notoriety as the Houston Open course equals high price. However the fact that they allow five-somes to play severely slowed down our pace of play. There were multiple fivesomes ahead of us, which held us up tremendously. These people were also clearly novice golfers, which of course is fine, but the Marshall should have taken charge of this and enforced either pace of play or allowed us to play through. The only encounter we had with the Marshall was him basically yelling at us and accusing us of not paying (despite golf shop telling us a receipt of payment wasn’t necessary for starter/Marshall). In the end, nice course but a let down when considering how costly it is. Save your money and play somewhere else to find a more overall enjoyable golf experience.

Conditions Excellent
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Slow round, fivesome

Booked a GolfNow reservation and showed up at the course and they said GolfNow had added me to a foursome. They said they do allow fivesomes which probably has a lot to do the the pace of play. Luckily the guys I joined were accommodating (I don't think I would be happy about a fifth guy joining our foursome) I'm not sure who is responsible here.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Best Playability Track In Texas

Was able to shoot an Even Par round on a windy / stormy day in Feb. The conditions are immaculate. Being able to control distance and spin the ball at will is easy when conditions are this good.

Fantastic Day. Paid 50 bucks.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Love playing GCH

The course was in beautiful shape prior to the Houston Open. Great practice facility.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Excellent challenge

The course is in perfect condition! Won’t find a better conditioned course! Truly a gem! Great lay out fantastic challenge from any set of tees!!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Best bang for the buck!

Always the best manicured golf and practice facility

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 23
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Windy weather
Used cart

Winter Gem in Houston

Played the tournament course two times while visiting Houston over President's Weekend. Staff, Starter and Marshals were polite, professional and welcoming. A real bonus to playing this course is the incredible practice facilities including four separate greens and many bunkers and chipping areas to work on your short game as well as a driving range. Getting their early to warm up as this incredible practice area was well worth it!

The course is prepping for the upcoming PGA tournament and was in outstanding shape, in spite of the recent weeks of rain. On almost all occasions, according to a member we played with, this course is "cart path only". ..making for a 4 -4.5 hrs round, however also preserving the fairways to near perfect winter shape. The course offers four tee boxes per hole so you can readily adjust the length of your game to the T box selection. Bunkers and water are plentiful on many holes and help to make this relatively flat course challenging and interesting. In spite of being close to the airport, the course is replete with natural beauty and even offered us a view of a bald eagle and Bobcat, while we were playing. A good mix of long par 4's and 5's with dog leg left and right as well as many holes with water and bunkers protecting T shots and approaches to the green. Since we were heading to the airport after our round, the staff generously offered us the member showers...another example of their welcoming spirit to "non-members"

In summary, a great value, especially in the PM, for the average to above average golfer. I would come again in a heartbeat and a definite don't miss if you are in Houston.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Rain all during round. Course and greens held up great

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 20
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Tournament Course Shines Early in Winter Season!

The Tournament Course was in Excellent shape for early winter. Greens were still running a tad bit slow, but much faster than they normally would be this time of the year. Overall Speed was probably in the 8-9 Range. Fairways and Rough are relatively grown in with the Overseed. Course was a little damp in spots from overnight rain of over an inch. Several of the balls plugged on drives, which is normal till February/March when the Houston Open prep starts. Great day, nobody out on a Monday and 65 degrees!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 7
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played
Used cart

Nice Course

This is a nice course. People seem to think it is very difficult because pros play it, but because the course is well taken care of, you might shoot lower than elsewhere. I liked this course enough that I played 3 times within a month. Unfortunately on the last round I left a $170 speaker in the cart. I did not play it because we got paired with others. This is 3x the price we paid for the round. I called the next morning and left my info. The cart guys should have found it right? Wrong. I called a couple more times and they said they would look into it. I don't think anyone every really looked into it. Brian was very rude and condescending. Either the cart guys don't clean carts (they do) or they took my speaker. You would expect that this would be extremely unlikely for this not to happen. Haven't played here since.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing

Not bad

Fun, not a destination but worth playing if in the area.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 46
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Tournament Course.

Very nice pro shop staff, starter and Marshall. Course was in much better shape than the last time I played.

Cart path only was only down side, but prepping for tournament was understood.

Nice price via GolfNow, had a great time with my son!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 24
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Hot Deal

Great Hot Deal at $50/player. The course was really wet from the rain the night before but besides that it was in excellent shape. The staff was friendly and the cart girl came by regularly. It did take 4hrs to play for a twosome which was a lot slower than I’d hoped for but with it being cart path only that was to be expected. With deals like this I’ll definitely be back to play again.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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