The Preserve Golf Club

I felt like I was playing in the jungle. Everything was wild and on manicured

So I played here last year and it was rough. I was told they hired a new groundskeeper and it was going to be much better in time. I'm back again this year and it looks even worse. It's mostly the greens. They are just horrendous! I didn't even bother putting on 3/4 of the holes. Once you fix those you c em focus on the tee boxes then the rough. I play there because of the price that's all. It's never busy there even with the low price. I really hope they work on these issues soon.

The course continues to deteriorate. We are hoping that someday soon they will fix it.

Greens eat up with fungus. Poor tee boxes. Foot tall grass growing in the traps. Not worth even the cheap rate received. Hard pass!

The course needs work, which they are in the process of doing.

It will be very nice soon when the greens are repaired and tee boxes are cut.

This condition of this course is an embarrassment to the USGA and the sport of golf as a whole.

The overall design brings in some difficult shots and the need to shape many of the shots, it is certainly not a straight up and down course. You have to know your distances and be on target. The design itself is challenging, but the lack of maintenance and extreme overgrowth creates a multitude of blind shots, translating into a lot of balls lost in what was supposed to be the fairway.

The greens are in horrible shape, with broken up patches and crabgrass. Some were so bad that even the course recognized it and low cut the fairway in front of the green on three holes and out the pin there. There is no additional marking or notice, so your blind shot of 185 yards to the “green” should actually only be 150 yards because they moved it 35 yards closer.

The pace of play was perfect, but just because I was the only golfer I saw out there once I teed off on #1. I didn’t see anyone else after that.

There are water fountains and rest rooms between 4-5 and 13-14; however they looked abandoned. The fountains were covered with spider webs and thankfully I didn’t have to attempt the bathrooms.

The driving range was a pond. Not sure what yardages were what, so it was simply hitting to hit, then watching the floating range ball hit the water. No shade, no cover.

The gentleman behind the counter was great, seriously, very friendly and organized. To their credit they did have cold bottled waters in the Pro Shop for a quarter ($0.25). At the turn, I stopped in the grab some (since I wasn’t attempting the water fountains). While in there, I asked him is this was a municipal course. He said no, it wasn’t owned by the city and immediately let me know that they were going to be starting renovations on the course by the end of July. I asked him if they were going to completely shut down the course? He said no, they would shut down the back and work on it leaving the front open for people to play twice for 18. He said they plan for the renovations to be completely finished on the front and back by the end of October.

All and all, it was $20 for me to play 18 with a cart. That’s about what an hour on the range would cost, so for that money, two hours on a “course”, it’s more practice than playing golf for any kind of “score”.

This is the worst course I have ever played on. The greens are awful. Three greens were moved to a grass area because the normal greens are in such poor place. If for some reason you hit a shot that is not in the fairway you cannot find your ball. The foliage and bushes along the course are over grown. If you want to just go hit the ball and not worry about your score or how well you putt, then this is your course for a $17 round.

Greens were in poor condition. There was no drinkable water on the course. Several of the water fountains looked like they hadn't been used in years

It’s truly heartbreaking to see such a beautiful piece of property with one of the most fantastic layouts ever! Be completely destroyed by ignorant and arrogant ownership!

I booked this after looking at the course photos on their website. When I got to the course, they met me at my car and loaded my clubs. I actually got out 30 minutes before my tee time which was fine because the parking lot looked better than the practice area. I figured the course couldn’t be all bad so played anyway. I was wrong. No real difference between fairway and rough, all over grown. The greens were unplayable so I just left my putter in the bag and added automatic 2-putt. The course has a lot of potential, beautiful layout, just a complete lack of maintenance.

The layout of this course is absolutely beautiful. Winding through woods and around pretty lakes. BUT, this was in the worst shape of any course I’ve seen, ever. We played 3 courses this past week. The first 2 were a bit rough from the hot weather, but this one was pathetically bad. Most greens were mostly ruined from the heat, and the last 3 were so bad they had cut temporary greens on the fairway (with no previous warning).

This was my first time playing the preserve at Tara. Based on my experience today, I can whole heartedly say, it should not be in operation. The course is not even minimally maintained. The entire round was awful. I had gone out with the intention of playing the full 18 holes. But decided that 9 holes was enough of my time and I left. The greens are a disaster, with spider grass all over and what looks like grass that is diseased. Not a flat roll to be had. The fairways look like they were cut last week and rough is longer than Oakmont. Yardage markers were completely wrong. Lastly, the tee boxes are like an afterthought. Long grass, beaten up. The entire facility is a disaster.

Staff and the vibe of this course is awesome. The back line was under repair so played two rounds of the front. Love the layout of the course main issue is the greens. But I’m not a professional never will be and it’s great to get out and practice Would be a five star for me if they would just get the greens in shape but very much enjoy playing here.

Avoid this course at all costs.

I’ve played a lot of golf, and this is hands down the worst-maintained course I’ve ever seen. The back nine was closed with no notice, so we were told to play the front nine twice. That would’ve been fine—if the front nine was playable.

The greens were a disaster—patchy, covered in dirt, and barely puttable. The bunkers? Filled with weeds and grass, like no one’s touched them in months. Fairways were just as bad. It honestly looked abandoned.

I’m genuinely shocked this place is still open. If you care about the game at all, don’t waste your time or money here. Go literally anywhere else.

I like the course lay out and design with water surrounding. Some green are not puttable and have no grass.

Amazing staff and a beautiful layout. They are putting a lot of work into the course. looking forward to see where it goes!

First I thought hey low ratings let’s give it a try anyway. The day before I received an update they were aerating so we could only play 9 holes and play it twice for 18. We decided that was fine since it’s our daughter’s first time out to play. I confirmed our tee time at that point. Then once we drive the 45 mins to the course the doors to the pro shop are closed there is not ash employee in sight. At 9am the time of our tee time I get an email that says they canceled due to weather. Great first experience for our daughters who want to get into golf.