Manatee Golf Course

Overall the course is in good shape and slow front nine but much better on the back.

The course is interesting, well kept and a great value

Carts were like new with very comfy seats. Course was in good condition and challenging enough to bring us back.

Decent public course to play with friends and family. Nice folks running the operation but greens need to be cut and rolled, fairways need to grow in.

Decent challenge on several holes - as I said, decent public course.

Started out in great condition several weeks ago, now slowly regressing. Many divot marks on greens, some tee boxes getting in poor condition. Cost $49 to play 9 holes on back before 8am which is very overpriced for the course. Very difficult to reach the Pro Shop when using the online number. Always goes to third party answering service. PIP is nice but being forced to hit drive off artificial service has potential danger as they sell rubber tees that fly 10-15 feet in front of you forcing you to walk out in front of others or wait until others have hit around you to retrieve your rubber tee. Marshals are inconsistent in enforcing this

I am not an exceptional typist, but I consider myself a palatable writer, conveying thoughts clearly using the current English language for a set purpose and as an informative reviewing instrument and if provoked, a weapon. Finding a story within every experience is my desire and using the characters I encounter to serve up some verbal animated fun.

Let's start with Milt, the Florida Fast Times at Ridgemont High wanna be with a wig-ish looking sun beaten off dirty white Joe Dirt mullet. Not sure what was more disturbing to me, his teeth or the poorly phrased words that tumbled from behind those broken scummy chicklets. Didn't tell me anything about anything, where's the starter, are we early or on time, will the weather hold off? All of which I asked about, but at least I can now walk away from that busted grill and get on with my golf.

Then a quick stop in the men's room and the stenches hit me like a ton of poopy bricks and as I spun for the exit holding my breath, I caught glimpses of a bathroom that's not been attended to in days.

Cart guy looked so life beaten he could barely lift his chin to notice the $5.00 I tipped him for nothing other than the fact that his tip jar had only enough pennies to almost cover the plastic bottom. Poor guy in more ways than one, I felt terribly for him, not for Milton.

The course is short with the one handicap hole being somewhat interesting with a quick turn right to a circular shallow green. The rest of the course was damp and chewed up on the fairways and around the greens with clumps of no grassy spots. Lift, Clean and Place was in play with so much constant muck on my ball and not a rain shower in days.

So if your going to play here, just avoid all employees as best as you can and look at it as a day if practice if you get a good deal as I did on GolfNow. It's not the place to get excited about, the bunkers were in decent shape.

Played the last couple of years, getting in better shape all the time. Well worth the money.

This course really needs an on course marshall to push the pace of play.

Our first 18 holes at Manatee. The greens and fairways were excellent with one or two exceptions. The layout was very good for intermediate and senior players with manageable hazards and traps and usually large & oversized greens. People were excellent and friendly going out of the way for new players to the course. Will be back.