Oaks at Ft. Walton Beach Golf Club

It is bad enough when a 2 some plays as slow as a 4 some but when a 2 some stuck behind a 4 some because they won't let you play through, you need to get them off the course period!!

Pines opening only for members for a month is a good idea to give the members some type of benefit. Would not totally recommend this course as just the Oaks available only because the golf management allows way too many people on the course at one time and you end up getting 3 or even 4 groups on the same hole plus EVERYONE piles over to #1 tee box regardless of their tee time thinking they can start early. That practice needs to stop and stop now. You cannot check in at #1 tee if it were up to me until 5 minutes before your tee time. THAT is the way many golf courses in the area do it so people basically are not in each others way - especially since 90 percent of the golfers out there cannot play worth a squat AND they take way too long.

The course was a strongest bone the grass was nonexistent the greens were full of sand no grass on the tees. Paid for 18 but only played nine it was pure torture!

Nothing but hard pan the whole course, the greens were full of sand and holes just terrible! There was no grass on the tees staff was very friendly but I will not play this course again!!!

Staff amazing but the course was Horrible! No grass tees,fairways all hardpan! The greens loaded with sand!!!! Very poor conditions!

So the I don't even know what you call 90 percent of the golfers out there but I am sure it is a derogatory word but you all draw the line at playing when 9 holes only is available? Packed to the max worse than ever yesterday - you all don't check with the golf course or its website to see if the greens are being done BEFORE you go out? Really? You will play when it is raining, you will play when the course is saturated so that you tear up the course even worse than normal because 90 percent of you can't hit the ball, you will play when it is 105 degrees out but you won't play when only 9 holes is available? No more comments about that - just be glad when the out of state foreigners are out of here!!!!

Do you NOT realize you have to control these moron golfers who have no manners and very little ability in the first place? Friend of mine just texted me and said EVERY HOLE has a minimum of 2 groups and they are too close together so it will turn out to be close to a 5 hour round!

We gave it one last shot and that was a disaster! Of course a 4some (military guys perhaps?) showed their manners and golf etiquette was totally non-existent and we noted a 5some TWICE on the Oaks. For a course management to say that won't happen anymore, it seems to happen a LOT. Since things really won't change until the Pines opens up for everyone, we will play up at Crestview and at Hurlburt.

Not even close. Played Gator Lakes teeing off around 10:30 - we finished before 1:00. Greens were every bit as good as any course in Destin. Fairways and Rough a little wet from the previous day rain but it was fair with plenty of grass on the fairways and the rough challenging but not ridiculous. Paid the same or maybe a buck or two less than the out of towners pay at FWB Oaks. I know this might involve a little thinking but a 10 second internet search will show/tell you how to obtain access to the Gator Lakes course but if you all want to keep getting in everyone's way at the Oaks, go for it. We won't anymore until the Pines opens up again!

Never fails when you have out of towners or out of state golfers - have no golf manners at all. Poor single player that caught up to them on the front nine had to wait until the 18th hole until they FINALLY let him play thru. That is unfortunately when the rain came down. What was the deal around 3PM with 4 different groups all on the 1st tee? Need to control when people actually go out on the course and don't let players tee off early. Of course they got drenched so that was kind of funny. Partners and I will recommend people to play this course once the out of towners get the heck out of our way!

Golfers who make a tee time for the morning that are single players - that isn't going to happen and that is something the golf course has made known quite a few times. Afternoons might be a different manner but mornings there are no single players.

I’ve played here quite a few times and I’ve usually enjoyed my rounds here but it’s only been downhill the last year. The greens are terrible, huge spots of dead grass and lots of sand all over. The tee boxes are like hitting out of a bunker especially on the par threes. The cups look like they haven’t been cut for a week or more, dead edges and mostly jacked up all the way around. I won’t play here again until the pines opens back up. Spend your hard earned money somewhere else.

So when the Pines opens up to MEMBERS only, who is going to be the first to try and play the Pines as a non-member - even if he/she tries to play with a member because you know it is going to happen FWB Golf Course Management so how are you going to prevent that from happening? I am assuming as a non-member I cannot play the Pines even with a member correct??