The Bridges Golf Club

I often play on this course last couple of years. It used to be good course with proper management of the course. But recently it got not decent. (This time though several fairways were on aeration. So cart path only in the hot summer day,,,!)

There was no water nor cleaning fabric for ball cleaning stand at all. Felt like the otherwise good course was abandoned since end of the last year..

Staff was friendly. Some of the fairways were aerated which is not a bad thing for course maintenance. If you hit it off the fairway, it can be difficult to find your ball. I would definitely play again.

No one informed us upon check-in there was a high-school qualifier tournament in progress. So the first 9 holes went by normal, and then quickly came to a crawl as all of those high-schoolers finished their holes. They all have to walk, and their pace of play was unregulated.

We ended up with a 5 hour round, and the 100+ degree heat starts to wear you out quickly. Never saw a single course marshall to help speed things up.

I love this course. If it were closer to home I'd play it more often. Started at 8:50am with temps in the mid-seventies. How great is that for the end of July? If I had a complaint it would just be that when we bought four beers from the cart girl she said she wasn't allowed to give us any ice. It would be nice if she had ice to give out when people are buying multiple drinks. No fault of her own. It seemed like is was a decision from above her. Other than that everything was great!

Josh Haynes (GM) should be embarrassed. He and his staff have an incredible piece of land and a beautiful course that they have operationally undermined through poor management and (what I have to characterize as) a general indifference to customer satisfaction.

A Sunday morning in July (the 28th), and there was not a single shift leader on site. At 7:30 AM, no coffee prepared, nor cook available for breakfast burritos. There was no cart girl available until after 12 PM, (due to the previous night’s attendant not charging the beverage cart), and good luck ordering food for the turn; no online menu nor accessible way to be in touch with the grill ahead of time - instead, a 20+ minute wait and a dissatisfied cadence of golfers.

And the cherry on top: Two woefully inadequate sets of rental golf clubs (esp for the price); one set missing 5 clubs (no driver nor 5 iron) and the other with a putter without a grip and a broken 3 wood.

Honestly, I don’t care that the pro shop lost their sponsorship a few weeks earlier. I don’t care that there is a new-ish administration. I don’t care that Josh, or one of his cohort, was on vacation. These are not problems that the customer should shoulder. These (and the above) are hallmarks of derelict leadership and woeful operational execution.

One star review, with 5 stars readily available if The Bridges decide to refocus on the customer experience and give their management some agency to fix obvious and glaring issues with their operation.

(BTW - happy to help you guys fix glaringly obvious issues. Josh has my number)

Great layout, great greens, fairways and rough all great condition. You can score if you can keep her in the fairway.

As always, the course is a pleasure to play. They had punched some fairways but on the whole conditions were great. Greens had been punched earlier the previous week but had already begun healing well.

I’ll always keep The Bridges at the top of my preferred places to play. Great value for the money/experience/conditions.

Greens were great but fairways and tee boxes were just ok. Pricey on weekends/holidays but golfnow deals during the week provide the opportunity for reasonable rates to experience a very nice course. Worth the drive from Allen to Gunter.

I absolutely loved this course, but the greens were sandy, and there were some cracks in the fairways. That's probably why there weren't many playing. Other than some of the course conditions, I loved the layout and topography. Playing from the blue tees, some holes were fun and easy while others were very challenging. Overall an enjoyable round of golf. I'd love to play here again.

One of my golf buddies came to visit and we decided to play this track. Tee boxes and fairways were good. Green we're solid and quick. Looking forward to playing it again.

This was my first time playing here and I was impressed by the course and how nice it is. Will be playing it again.