Cove Cay Golf Club

Slow play, no marshal to hurry things up. Staff super friendly. Greens decent. Not worth the money

A variety of holes to challenge your putting skills

There is so much potential for this course. Challenging and well laid out. All that said I found the course to be poorly maintained. They need to up their game

This is a fun course with a challenging layout and good conditions. The major issue we had with it was pace of play. We played the course two times (Feb 25 and 28) and came very very close to walking off the course both times due to the terrible pace of play. On the 25th, it took 2:50 to play 9 holes. That was miserable. We waited on every hole with backups of three foursomes on some holes. On the 28th, it took 4:45 to play 18 holes. The front took over 2:30. The back side moved better but we still waited to tee off on most holes. There were no rangers on the course and no efforts to warn groups to maintain a reasonable pace of play.

Course was in good shape. Very fast greens. Played 18 holes in 1 hour 45 minutes.

Good course layout with mature trees with fairly tight fairways required accurate drives off tee box. Some tees were quite ragged. fairways and greens were in good condition. A lot of bunkers on course. Sand was very firm and moist, but better on back nine. Some blind shots to maneuver. All-in-all, a fun course to play.

Beautiful golf course, one of the nicest for us so far on our Tampa vacation, we have golfed at 6 courses and the main issue in all of them is tee off times to close together and it takes forever to play 18 holes…fortunately this was not the case here on a Saturday, great staff, great course, loved it…we will be back.

Nice golf course, reasonable pace of play. Greens rolled nice and had plenty of grass. They are Bermuda greens so if you are from up north and used to bent grass be sure to account for additional break and distance adjustments for your putts. Sand in bunkers was ok but very playable. Many folks had stated course is tight and I feel that is not the case. There is room off the tees and there really aren’t any houses in play. The back nine is a little more scenic than the front. There are several holes with doglegs so you will be able to use most the clubs in your bag.

We teed off around noon and finished in 4 hours. We did not see a ranger and there isn’t any beverage carts on the course so grab your Gatorade in the pro shop and at the turn. They did have a separate clubhouse which offed hot dogs and sandwiches along with a bar if you want adult beverages.

Overall a pleasant day and we were paired with a retired couple and we enjoyed their company.