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4.2
935 Reviews (935)
5 Stars
267
4 Stars
416
3 Stars
158
2 Stars
51
1 Stars
43
Conditions
4.1
Value
4.0
Layout
4.4
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.2
87.9%
Recommend this course
782 out of 935 reviews
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4.2
39 Reviews (39)
5 Stars
15
4 Stars
19
3 Stars
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1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.3
Value
3.9
Layout
4.4
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.6
84.6%
Recommend this course
33 out of 39 reviews
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4.2
78 Reviews (78)
5 Stars
30
4 Stars
37
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
2
1 Stars
2
Conditions
4.1
Value
3.9
Layout
4.4
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.3
StaffFriendliness
4.4
84.6%
Recommend this course
66 out of 78 reviews
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Course Highlights
Plantation Palms consistently delivers fast, true greens and well-maintained fairways at an outstanding value for the area. The exceptionally friendly staff and GPS-equipped carts enhance a challenging, enjoyable layout near Tampa.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Style Links
Par 72
Length 6735 yards
Slope 139
Rating 72.6

Plantation Palms Golf Club, designed by David Harman, provides every Tampa golfer with a challenging and rewarding golf experience. The links-style design starts with a welcoming par 5, and then slowly steps up with a mixture of strong par 3s. Just 10 minutes north of Tampa, this course was carved a 400-acre citrus grove that slopes from west to east, providing interesting elevation changes. Water is in play on 17 of 18 holes. Plantation Palms Golf Club has an attractive framing of greens by the use of pine trees, water and large snow-white sand traps. The true-rolling elevated greens have good movement and are a challenge for golfers.

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Course Details

Year Built 2000
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect David Harman (2000)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
GPS No
Pull-carts No
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Walking Allowed No
Dress code Collared shirt, bermuda shorts req, no denim

Food & Beverage

Snacks, Restaurant

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities
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4.2
935 Reviews (935)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 6
Course Challenges Include:
Forced Carries 15
Water Hazards 13
Bunkers 12
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 7
Locals 7
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 8
In the 'Burbs 6
Worth the Drive 6

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Renovations and new course ownership: After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here. Find out more
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 8
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Amazing Course

Loved the course layout. When dry this course is a 5 Star

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 2
Handicap 20-24
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Needs Attention

The Tee Boxes were rough as were the greens. Very disappointed.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Fun course

A great course for the price. They even give you a cooler with two bottle of water. Always in good shape, play not the fastest as busy course. Overall great value for money

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 11
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Fabulous golf course!

Beautiful Golf Course, fabulous layout and very challenging. Lots of undulations, bunkers and water hazards. Although the area had gotten lots and lots of rain, the course was in excellent condition. I would highly recommend it, with one exception. The ranger tried his best to speed up the three horribly slow foursomes in front of our foursome, but was unsuccessful. Total time of play... 5 hours 15 minutes... grueling to take that long.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 9
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course, non existent staff?

This is my first experience at Plantation Palms and, based on the course condition alone, it was fantastic! The greens are in excellent shape and the fairways are perfect. My trouble was with the rest of the experience. I reccomend this course with some trepidation ...

With no starter around, it was basically when you are ready, go! Problem here is that now you have chaos on the course. No control whatsoever over pace of play, Two twosomes that could have made a foursome did not, a single and a twosome that could be a three, was not. In other words, everybody held everyone up and what could have been a very enjoyable round of golf was not. The pro shop was empty, there was absolutely no stock of any kind and the attendant, less than friendly. Of course do I need to say there was no starter? The golf course, the condition and the layout deserve a better staff than what was present June 28th.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Value

Course was in very good shape,especially considering how little we paid to play

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 6
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Love the course. but the greens are in need of some work, and the proshop was empty.

Thoroughly enjoyed our round of golf.Fairways are in good shape, but the greens are in need of work ,and the proshop was completely empty. I couldn't even buy a golf ball for my son's collection. When I asked if I could come back in a couple weeks to get one. They said they probably wouldn't have them by then either. Overall fun course but disappointed in greens and proshop.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 10
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Total let down...from a high recommendation!

I was told of this course by the two some I joined when I played Seven Hills Golf Club. Their recommendation for this course was very high. I had been prepared for a great round. The Golf Now had a tee time for more than 56% off. I had a great deal, great warm up facility, but the course was in poor condition to play! The greens had been aerated WITH sand a week prior. They were impossible to read, putt or decide which mogul to bounce off of to putt. The layout is great, but the soggy conditions were a force to recon with. The GPS was off, too. Having not played the course before, I was unaware of the common place of the residents. Literally some tee boxes are 10 yards from kids screaming on your back swing! There were kids fishing in the ponds without getting out of the way. There were kids practicing on the greens. I will never play this course (if ever!) during the summer or a weekend again. I would give it a month to allow the course to heal properly should you dare. There should have been a warning from Golf Now about the course's condition! I didn't play Silverthorn Country Club because they were aerated recently. At least, their residents know how to behave on the course.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 24
Handicap 20-24
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

OOPS

Alright. I have wanted to play this course for almost a decade but its out of my price range until June 4th. I was shocked when I got there as I have been told it was one of the nicest courses in the area. The club house was just empty shelves. The course had garbage all over it. They had just ariated the greens so couldn't hold that against them. There was no ranger or starter. They obviously don't care about time of play as it took me over 3 hours to play the front 9. But it started to rain and I waited for about a half an hour and watched everyone leave the course so I continued in the rain since I have wanted to play this course for almost a decade. I played the last nine by myself in just under an hour so was happy I got to play the whole course. The course itself is set up really nice with extremely wide fairways and is very pretty. Hopefully they get whatever the problem is taken care of for they're sake.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 63
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 1000 Contributor
Previously Played

straighforward holes, wide fairways, well maintained, great value

They had just arified the greens so we got great rates. Wide fairways where you almost always knew what was needed on all shots. 9 and 18 are great ending holes. Overall a good experience with easy to moderate difficulty.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 4
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Nice layout

Very nice course, in good shape. Challenging and difficult layout but very fun to play. Need good tee shots if want to score your average here. Will certainly love to okay it again.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Well maintained

It is well worth the money. Great course. It's a little secret treasure in Land O lAkes.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 26
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Nice layout and challenging

Plantation Palms is a well-maintained, interesting golf course. Wildlife is abundant. Several holes over water will challenge you.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 3
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Challenging track

Nice challenging layout with more elevation than most florida courses. Nice clubhouse restaurant.

A bit overpriced but would play again if discounted.
Greens are somewhat slow and need some work. Quite a few greens have large patches of sand not marked as ground under repair.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser

Course was in great shape

Course was in great shape. Not crowded, surprised that we were not held up at any of 18 holes. Had a late lunch after the round - food was great.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 37
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser

This course is lady friendly.

This course credited me for halfway decent shots. Delightful afternoon.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Challenging for all levels.

Due to handicapped individual in our group we played from the gold, which perceivably lessened the degree of difficulty. However, even some of the gold tees were plenty difficult. Would like to play it again from longer tees.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Slow Play

Course conditions seem to be improving but the pace of play made things tuff. 5 hours for a threesome can ruin the best round!

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 8
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Good Value

Course was in overall pretty good shape. Greens were all rolling true but there were a few fairways that really needed some TLC. Driving range was VERY busy and the grass showed that. Starter was very professional and offered some great tips on the course. GPS in carts was a nice touch as well.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Renovations and new course ownership
After closing in 2014, Plantation Palms reopened in December of 2016 under new ownership. You can read updates to the renovation in progress here.
Reviews 17
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

The layout is great. The greens were in good shape but the fairways could be improved.

Four stars. The fairways need attention. I have always enjoyed playing the course. However, the last couple of years, the course has deteriorated.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
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