Oaks at Ft. Walton Beach Golf Club

Nice municipal facility to knock off the winter rust. A couple nice practice areas and a range. Course(s) are both fun and a great value.

Turf is a mess with a lot of bare areas and the greens are full of Poe, making it impossible to putt. These were problems that existed in 2019 and nothing seems to have been done about it.

The driving is limited to hitting off mats.

The course is an interesting layout and a value. It is too bad that the turf conditions are abysmal.

Or lack of marshals or lack of golf etiquette by the course. The man behind the counter didn’t tell the patron that he couldn’t have a 5 person group and neither did the marshal at the first hole. We got at the first tee at our tee time and the starter said our other 2 some teed off a half early and we were to get in line behind groups that didn’t have tee times. Not a very good way to run a golf course. Even if it is a city course. The course was a little better than in January when we last played but was still under construction and very slow, it took 3 hours to play 9 holes because no body was policing the course. Golf Now should take them off of their list. I don’t mind if people don’t play well but when you don’t tell them that you can’t play as more than 4 and don’t police it then you won’t be getting any more of my money or good reviews. The course is very dry like a lot of other courses are, the layout is good and challenging. The practice areas are very good.

Overall pretty nice. There is poa annua grass popping up on several greens. Maintenance needs to apply chemical to prevent the growth of poa annua. Serious wash out areas on holes 5 and 16 because of the serious downhill slopes in the fairways. Those washed out areas need to be fixed. The end of the cart path on hole 15 at the tee needs to be dug up and brought level with the surrounding turf. Throughout the course there are areas I will call "potholes" that need to be filled in and install sod. The fairways need to be seeded as the grass is too thin in the fairways. To the starters please do not send out fivesomes.

Today, I enjoyed playing here because it wasn't pack of slow golfers. I ran into a slow group, but they let me through. Over all this is a nice golf course to work on your game.,..

Greens haven’t been maintained with clumps of weeds and fairway grass .

The pro shop sent us to the Pines course at our option saying it was wider and longer. Only problem was they had a walking twosome, people that waited for someone to clear the green from 300 yards out and a foursome that must’ve had Rigamortus. The cups look like they haven’t been moved for a month and a half. The course has a good layout and the clubhouse is a nice big facility.

When you find 5 groups backed up on the fifth tee after moving through 1-4, ya gotta wonder.

Lots of dirt/sand in fairways- greens slow and bumpy. I’d come back hoping conditions improve, but only once if they didn’t.

We had a 2:00pm tee time. We were only. able to play 12 holes before sunset at 5:45pm.