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2.9
2155 Reviews (2155)
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722
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
178
1 Stars
201
Conditions
2.4
Value
3.2
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.1
56.1%
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2.8
56 Reviews (56)
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Conditions
2.1
Value
3.1
Layout
4.3
Pace
4.0
Amenities
3.0
StaffFriendliness
4.1
46.4%
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26 out of 56 reviews
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117 Reviews (117)
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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Conditions
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Value
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Layout
4.2
Pace
4.3
Amenities
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StaffFriendliness
4.1
51.3%
Recommend this course
60 out of 117 reviews
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Course Highlights
Red Tail's course layout consistently earns high praise for its fun, challenging design with memorable holes around the lake. Friendly staff, smooth check-in, and comfortable pace of play make this an outstanding value for the money.

About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Style Links
Par 72
Length 7152 yards
Slope 141
Rating 75.1

Atypical of many Florida golf courses, RedTail Golf Club is a links-style layout dotted with 100-year-old oak trees and azaleas among its rolling green fairways. Designed by Dave Harman, who also did Shingle Creek Golf Club in Orlando, the course features four lakes with water coming into play on the last five holes. Holes 14-18 work their way around the largest lake on the course, while the finishing hole's approach shot plays over another body of water in front of the clubhouse. Located in rural Sorrento a little more than a half hour north of Orlando, RedTail Golf Club prides itself on catering to "members only."

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Course Details

Year Built 2004
Golf Season Year round
Architect David Harman (2004)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Proper attire is required.

Available Facilities

Clubhouse

Available Activities

Swimming, Billiards

Available Sports

Fitness, Tennis
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Reviews

2.9
2155 Reviews (2155)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 62
Patio Dining 55
19th Hole Scenic Views 41
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 116
Forced Carries 93
Water Hazards 87
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 103
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 75
Locals 73
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 128
In the 'Burbs 43
Convenient to the City 22

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Reviews 36
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

What Happened to this course?

I don't know what happened to this course. It is absolutely horrible. It is getting very little maintenance. The only thing green out there are the weeds. What a shame.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
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Player

My wife and I haven’t played at Red Tail Golf Course in about three maybe four years. When we drove up to drop off our golfing bags the course looked beautiful, but when we walked onto tee box of hole #1 my wife and I couldn’t believe our eyes. The course looked like it hadn’t been mowed or treated for weeds for weeks and the greens were terrible as well. I know I booked the tee time on Golf Now, but when we arrived at pro shop worker or the starter should have said something. There were a couple of holes that were beautiful and nicely maintained, but the overall course condition wasn’t worth $25.00 a person. Just my opinion.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
1.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

STAY AWAY!!!!

Once a beautiful course now it's unplayable. The T box are muddy, the fairways are like the rough and the greens are so bad you can't even putt in a straight line. The sand bunker is now filled with dirt/mud. STAY FAR AWAY from this course. My foursome did not finish 18 holes because some holes are so bad that its unplayable. I give this course months before it's shut down for business.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Previously Played

How bad can it be…

It’s been about 6 years since the last time I played Redtail and from what I remember it was pretty decent. Found a hotdeal for yesterday and disappointedly shocking when we got to the 1st tee box. Extremely poor conditions from the tee box to the horrendous greens. Couldn’t even tell you were on the fairway since it looked as bad as the rough. Such a letdown. Hopefully they can turn things around because it’s not a pretty site!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course was in rough condition, greens were especially bad, I would not rethink course in present condition

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Horrible conditions

They haven't watered greens, tee boxes or fairways in months. We were told this was due to a broken pump. There is no grass to speak of, and where there is grass in the roughs, it hasn't been mowed and is over 6 inches high leading to several lost balls. The course is unplayable and should be shut down. It definitely is not worth what they are charging to play there.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 248
1.0
Top 100 Contributor
Verified Purchaser

No improvement

They've had irrigation problems so some of the damage is Mama nature, but can't see how they'll be ready for the winter play season.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 57
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Course need maintenance

This is # 6 hole. Par 3. The fairways were not cut. The explanation given was the course has no water. Don’t recommend anyone to spend their hard owned money to play Red Tail in Sorrentor Florida. The course is in horrible condition.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Course very poorly Maintained

This is # 6 hole. Par 3. The fairways were not cut. The explanation given was the course has no water. Don’t recommend anyone to spend their hard owned money to play Red Tail in Sorrentor Florida. The course is in horrible condition.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 20
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

ByeForNow

Sad state of affairs at Red Tail right now. I’ve always loved the track but apparently they recently had their irrigation pumps go down and the course went without irrigation (or rain!) for 26 days! Greens are trash because of this but the whole course is just a big weed bed at this time with tee boxes bare and only a few holes with any fairway to be found. I’m forgiving for all these things because of why …but still charging $50 per golfer knowing these conditions exist and not giving full disclosure is pretty unforgivable.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 16
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course is looking rough.

Fairways are dying. Greens are dying. What isn’t dying is overgrown. Just overall failed maintenance lately.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Over Priced cow pasture

Wow I thought paying for a great course you would think the staff would worn you of some issuing the course paying over $50. Trim tee to green missing grass and sand everywhere. Most tee booster sand or weeds no lush grass. The fairways you are looking for live grass to hit off of. The poor greens have problems in several ways the birds are digging up the greens looking for the bugs underneath.. if any type of fertilizer was on any greens no damages would happen from the birds!! This is such a beautiful layout goo to waste by the leadership and so called owners of this course.. sad shape

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Rough conditions

They do not take care of this course at all. It was very overgrown in. Areas and had weeds and bald spots everywhere. The fairways looked like the rough and greens were half bald or pitted. The only saving grace was there was no one on the course so pace was my pace which did make it a little easier to forgive the conditions

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Previously Played

Never Seen A Course This Bad!

This used to be my all time favorite course in the area to play. I’ve been playing here for more than 10 years and the course and the golf club have seen many ups and downs.

I knew they were going through some difficult times with new owners that didn’t care about the golf course but WOW. They should not be allowed to charge money to play there! ABSOLUTELY UNPLAYABLE!

Good luck finding anything resembling grass on the tee boxes. Impossible to putt, it’s all sand and dead grass. So many fire ants and bugs all over the course, the ground is literally moving from all the insect activity.

The cart path on 18 is in such bad disrepair, they’re rerouting cart traffic right over the ladies tee box.

The greens are in terrible shape from lack of water, insects and cranes feeding on the bugs.

Apparently they fired their golf pro this week so they could pay for fertilizer, according to one of the grumpy guys in pro shop.

My advice, save your money and the headache and go play a course that actually wants to stay open!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

WAS a solid course

Red Tail WAS a good course for many years. I've played at Red Tail about 40 times in the past decade and it has always been a well groomed, slightly challenging public course. I went out there for the first time in more than a year and it was DESTROYED. From tee to green the course looks like the owners gave up on it. There wasn't a single green that did not have patches of grass missing. Several of the tee boxes are dirt and the fairways look the same as the rough.

Save your money and go elsewhere until they bring this course back to it former self.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Terrible conditions

I know it's the middle of summer in Florida but this place was in such bad shape it seemed abandoned. Driving range was dirt and weeds No grass on Tee box’s and you can't tell the fairway from the rough. Greens even worse. Bunker's 😂. This place used to be so nice.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 31
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Too bad

Normally a pleasure to play but they have had mechanical issues and had lost their irrigation system. I will go back next year after conditions have improved.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 20
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
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