Mount Dora Golf Club

This course could be one of the best in Central Florida if only there was more investment made in the maintenance of the fairways. The property needs some tree maintenance as well. Too many overgrown oak trees. Greens are always in good shape though.

Fun place, but needs a little work. I will go back again.

What a friendly place - everyone was so welcoming and helpful. My wife and I loved it and will return soon.

Teed off 15 minutes past our scheduled tee time due it being backed up. Pace of play is a big issue. Multiple groups waiting on tee boxes. Fun course if you’re willing to play a 5.5 hour round.

Fairways need attention but the greens were challenging

And divots were repaired. Pace of play was consistent and no waiting for an 8am tee time, no one waiting behind either. Staff very friendly and helpful. Most holes were straight out there with a few blind Tee off. Tee boxes need grass seed as do the fairways! Several side slanting fairways, bunkers were wet but soft. For a casual relaxing game I would go back and recommend to a friend. For a challenge and a higher cost look close by!

Fairways are rough need some maintenance greens were very fast not a bad layout needs lots of work.

Our first time playing here. It is very tight. Meaning, t-box and greens next to each other and more than one. Lots of chatter with putting and driving. We did like the layout as far as the bit of up and down fairways. The greens were in good shape however if you don’t land on top you may find you next shot from the fringe or further out. Some holes if you overshot the hole you rolled of. The back nine was more interesting than the front. I like #12. The staff were very friendly and my friend thoroughly enjoyed his cheeseburger!

Putting was a challenge

The greens were fast and many missed putts rolled right off of the green

There were many breaks that were hard to read which resulted in frustrating misses

Many of the greens had false fronts and doomed backs which resulted in balls rolling off the green after hitting it on the fly

The fairways were extremely hard and difficult to get under the ball

Don';t let the yardage and the par rating fool you, this course is tougher than it looks

Don't believe the yardage book! With four holes playing very uphill (I'm talking 50-100 foot elevation increase from tee to green), the course plays longer than you would expect. Both of the down hill holes are severely sloped, during at least parts, from side to side, and one of those pushes you into the only water hazard on the course.

This is a course where being able to work the ball both ways will serve you well (unfortunately that's not something I can do). Then, some of the greens have significant slope to them. The grounds crew needs to be aware of these, and manage green speed, and second cut height/thickness in order to avoid what I saw...which is people putting from above the hole, and rolling off the green, through the second cut, and stopping 20 yards away. If the course had been crowded, a couple of holes could easily have jammed the whole thing up behaving like that.

On a Sunday with temps at 11 am of 55 degrees and cloudy, I finished 18 in a little over 3 hours and didn't catch up to anyone until the 7th hole. So, my pace of play may not be the norm here. Course is fairly tight, but there are enough gaps in the trees that balls can appear from a couple of fairways over.

Greens were in good shape (but like many older courses, they are small), most of the fairways were also in good shape. The tee boxes in several cases needed some TLC. I only hit into one bunker, and it seemed to be in okay shape (not packed sand, and there was a rake).

I would play it again if it weren't over an hour away.

Old style course. Some very uphill holes. Hole #5 has an extreme right to left tilted fairway. Almost no water hazards. Pace can be an issue. Most recent round, we had a fivesome playing two groups ahead of us and they really slowed down the pace.