Water Oak Golf Club

Quite a few area courses are experiencing conditions ranging from fair to just plain terrible. Give Water Oak credit for keeping the fairways playable and the greens and traps in excellent condition. The super smooth, quick greens are impressive.The approach fairway on #15 needs work, and has been in subpar shape for a while. Likely due to plenty of leaves and tall trees to block the sun. Went out as soon as a rainstorm cleared, and played extremely fast. Not long, but a great layout in fine condition for mid-March.

Course was in good shape for this time of year. Some bare spots but nothing horrible. Greens are nice and interesting holes. There is elevation which makes it nice. The only complaint I have is when checking in. They ask for a lot of information and is very time consuming. They need to improve on the checking in.

Wonderful to hit the ball off grass instead of sand and weeds.....

Great time...great staff.... will play often...

The greens were great but nothing else impressed us. For the price we expected better overall course conditions. We won’t go back.

Great value alternative compared to The Villages. Excellent staff, decent conditions, reasonable pace of play. . Excellent staff and value at the restaurant after golf.

The course conditions were great. All the staff were very friendly and helpful. The greens and next tee off box were very close. The customers that were residents, most were not friendly to non resident customers. Saying snide comments to us. The other customers were friendly. I'm sorry to say I won't be going back because of the residents behavior to my friends and myself. My friends and I are avid golfers, we know the rules and followed them.

Best of luck.

Spent a lot of money on course and it shows. I enjoyed and recommend thiscourse!

My GPS was on the course before this new redo of Water Oak, so I didn’t have correct yardages however there are some yardages throughout the holes. Lots of blind shots but the course is in good shape and has lots of grass unlike most Florida courses this time of year.

Definitely NOT a Top 25 course!

Layout extremely tight with tees crossing on a couple holes on the back - and one tee shot over a green just yards away.

Starter could not find the twosome I was to play with.

A group slid in between nines. The ranger said they were unaware, verified it, and did nothing about it.

Course is holding up pretty well for the Winter months, with tees, greens and traps in good condition. Despite all the rain, the fairways are a bit thin and hard. The ball will roll forever, especially on the down hill holes. Expect to drive a couple of Par 4's with a well placed shot. Strategic placement is essential to be in the right position for your approach shot. Several holes are close together, and a few stray balls may be flying your way. Overall, an interesting place to play.

This could be a real nice course but they cannot (or will not afford to) grow grass in the fairways! Lots of ‘up & down’ holes, forced carry over water on 7 holes, nicely contoured greens in decent condition…but NO grass in the fairways. Only near hardpan & dead leaves. At $40 or less it is OK but not for the $58 rack rate.

All the staff are great, as are the people I’ve been paired up with.

Greens and tees excellent. Layout great. Really beautiful course, except the grass on the fairways. It's winter but the fairways are like playing on dirt.