Houston National Golf Club

Played this course thinking the price paid would reflect the facility and the course condition. Hundreds of ant mounds everywhere on every hole, tons of sand spots that are not bunkers but just not kept up. Mediocre facility and the food, you would be better off bringing a sandwich form two days ago

Been playing here several times, first time I notice a number of the fairways being in less than good shape, a lot of weeds and rough patches.

Ended up playing behind a 5 ball which meant we had to wait on every hole for every shot. Surprised there wasn't a starter nor marshal on a Memorial day when it was busy.

We played Houston National yesterday and it was a great round. The pro shop staff was very friendly and helpful.

We tied off before our scheduled tee time and played at a great pace.

The greens were in fantastic shape. Fairways in good shape.

Great value and the fees included lunch and a drink.

Really nice course design, but the condition was awful. Fairways taken over by weeds and lots of bare patches. Bunkers not raked, albeit there was rain overnight, but still could have easily been maintained by the green keepers. Greens ok, but quite a few damaged areas. I won’t be back and not worth the $80 I paid

Greens are in good condition. 17 and 18 are unusual holes that you need to study to understand. Overall a fun good value course. Not walkable.

Staff was great! Geofencing golf carts is annoying! Course condition is ok. Not worth $90

I liked everything about this course. Previous negative reviews about water on course was after it rained 5” in a few days in Houston, every course was under water…come on.

Course is links style with great layout but plays a bit more narrower because of ditches and elevated mounds along fairways, so keeping it in the fairway is key. I’m not a long hitter, but the white tees even allowed me to cut the corners and have some fun being aggressive on a couple holes! There are some cart paths where they shouldn’t be, but you can’t help that with the mounds blocking access to fairways from cart paths. Bunkers seem to have great sand, maybe even had been recently added to some. Greens were as good as it gets in Houston, seriously they were way better than most courses.

Bar was a great plus too. Right by driving range so you can sit there and have a drink and food and watch the action and surroundings. And Adam tending bar was awesome.

Price is what you’d expect for this level of course and is about the same with others in areas.

Only negative is that I live an hour away! But I play all over Houston and the drive will be worth it to go back from time to time.

Charging $65 to play a course that 1/3 of the holes are cart path only while a lot of the bunkers were flat out unplayable is laughable to me. Also the pace of play could stand to be improved.

Course was great except for the bunkers. After heavy days of rain, these were in bad shape.

The closure of the driving range right as I arrived at 11 am on a Sunday was annoying. Evidently their tractor broke down. Course needs to invest in reliable equipment or a backup. There were numerous bunkers throughout the course that had become small ponds from recent rain but so much so that balls were lost green side by my playing partner. Bunker had 3+ feet deep water in it. Don't these bunkers drain? One fairway on the back 9 had a lake in the middle of it and a flock of ducks there in 2 feet deep water. Crazy! Poor drainage. Cart path only when course was not that wet except where this lake was. All in all it was a good day on a tough course, made more difficult with cart path only and with no warm up because of closed range. The free hot dog/hamburger with round is very nice and great hot dog!

The driving range was closed because their tractor broke down. Course in worst condition I have ever seen over past three years. Several bunkers full of water like ponds, one fairway had a large lake two to three feet deep in the middle of it at about 250 yards. My ball dried up at front of lake due to how et but guy I was with hit it on fly and we could see ball but could not reach with ball grabber. Cart path only but only a few spots where this was warranted. Course is difficult and very unforgiving. Hot dogs and bar are excellent! My biggest issue was closed range and not notice of this. No warm up makes golf no fun for first few holes.

Let me just list them out.

Greens - Terrible. Bald and like off-road terrain

Bunkers - standing water with green algae or hard as rock if dried

Fairways - bad. Bare spots all over

I will never play there again.