White Oaks Country Club

The course layout is challenging with narrow treelined fairways throughout and well placed sand traps. However, many sections of the fairways were muddy due to watering and lack of sunlight from. all the trees. The rough was strewn with piles of leaves and if you were lucky enough to find your ball, you are hitting off of sand and gravel in most areas around the many trees. Our cart had gps onboard which was malfunctioning the entire front 9 beeping stating we were in a restricted area while we were on the cart path multiple times. Very aggravating and we changed carts at the turn. The course appears as though it would be a nice and challenging place to play in peak season when there are no leaves and conditions are better. Oh yea, I saw someone with a Ranger jacket on at the clubhouse, however, I never saw him on the course where a foursome two groups ahead were causing a 5 minute wait for every single shot for at least four groups behind them at the very least the entire round. Maybe he would be out in peak season as well.

There were too many leaves on the fairway to play without loosing many golf balls. Understand it is difficult to keep up with the leaves at the end of October but it was frustrating and slowed the pace of play.

Course has a nice layout. The greens are in very good condition but sand traps need dressing, they have a lot of stones. Staff is friendly and when the cart girl is on the course she’s very attentive. Pace of play is normally fairly good for 3 people 3:45-4:15.

Came to play, but discovered there was an outing, so concerned we would get stuck behind them, but didn't need to worry as starter put us out on 10. Pace was great until we made the turn. As we were the first group to off 10 we were amazed to see a 4-some teeing off on 1; I guess the new stater did not tell them starting hole was 10 due to the outing. So, the great pace we had going was lost; what should have been a 4 hour round came closer to 4.5. That was the only issue we encountered on what was a beautiful day for golf on some slightly sanded greens.

It is no secret that White Oaks has suffered over the past several years and this summer's weather extremes didn't help. They are working to get the course back in shape. The greens were in very good condition. A lot of the rough was dried out hard soil. The fairways are much improved but there still are large patches of grassless areas on some of them. Tee boxes were iffy but you can see they are working to bring many back. They have added GPS to the carts. They are priced low due to the conditions so it is lower cost option.

My wife & I had a nice time playing White Oaks. It is the closest course to our home, and we got a nice “hot deal”. I was unhappy about the lack of water in the ball washers. I stopped at the turn, and mentioned it to the young man at the desk. He told me that they did’t have sufficient staff to maintain the ball washers and it was a public health problem. He suggested I bring my own. I was not pleased with his answer. How often would the washers even need to be serviced? Considering the increases in the cost of golf in recent years, I don’t understand. Why such a simple thing would be a problem. I have not had this experience at any other golf course, I play several times per week at various courses in the area and on vacations. This does not make me want to return to White Oaks.

Was able to snag a $25 round off of golf now. First time ever playing this course and i had a fun time. Paired up w 3 other gentlemen. Would deff come back and play again.