Tarpon Woods Golf Club

Been playing golf for 35 years, never played a course in worse shape.

Expect a tee off on the T box in sand teeing up the ball in the fairway teeing up the ball on the greens cracked dried up lava hard rock for greens no water ever in the water jug on the back nine it’s just never there. I’ve played this course more than 50 times in the past year. I’ve watched them give free teetimes 18 holes in a cart and nickel and dime military service member guests out of a discount. I witnessed this and immediately said to him, I would not be coming back after the front desk service man Robert had a arguing contest with me and wouldn’t let me pay for my food so I could go play the back nine. He was extremely adamant about me agreeing with him before he would do anything to move me along. I asked 7 times to please let me pay for my food so I can go play the back nine. I then said I will not be coming back here he snatched my food and kicked me out, acting like a clown.

Do yourself the favor and pay the extra 10 or $20 for a better course with better service with water and ice. If you wanna hate Golf and have a horrible service experience, then pay the $20 and sign right up. I’ll never be returning here again and for the record “the property has been sold and paperwork has been filed, for an environmental tax deduction breaks”-Robert

So they really don’t care about this place and they’re about one year to two years out from closing according to the talk from the front desk. This is evident by the way, they treat their customers and the course!

Course in really bad shape, tee boxes and fairways are weeds/sand mostly, and the green are about 20%grass. Get lucky and land on a grass island to putt otherwise bumpy weeds all the way to the hole.

Beautiful property just mostly abandoned. Hit hard by the storm I guess as the cafe was blown away.

Beautiful layout,love this course but greens are completely destroyed.

Great hike layouts. Really nice staff. Not busy. Facilities and course need a lot of work. Course was 50% sand including tee box, fairways, and greens. Would love to play this one in its prime.

Worst course I’ve been to. They are upgrading the greens but the entire fairway was a sand trap. The greens, while still being upgraded, caused the ball to bounce in the air when putting over stubs of grass. They had us read a disclosure in the club house about the greens prior to paying. For $40, it was overpriced

Greens are in terrible shape like playing in the desert. Course is horrible. Nobody cares about it. No bar service nowhere to get anything to drink. We should’ve had our money refunded.

This Course needs a lot of work. It is all sand and dead grass. It also has a lot of fire ants. I was bit/stung many times. I do not recommend this course.

Entire course needs an overhaul. Lots of sand and pests. Stepped in a pike of red ants and was stung all over my legs. Greens are not green.

I played this twice and gave it the benefit of the doubt and Oh Man…was I and horribly wrong.

So I’ve Never…… written a review on a course ever. This one was soooo bad that I felt like I should warn people. I got two separate “deals” on this course. This is someone’s badly managed backyard. Not a golf course. To call this a bad course is a an ins*1t to bad courses. This is a train wreck. Zeroooo tee boxes literally hitting from a sand pit every time. Out of 18 holes there was mayyybe 1 that had specs of grass on it to stand in and not slip. I have plenty of pictures to prove it.

The guy at the counter was said they sold to a developer and they want to use it for green space. Then he told another person it was bought by H**ters the restaurant

. Lol like why would Hoo+3rs want this joke of a “course”. The greens have grass on them but play like shag carpet. I was aiming 3 ft behind the hole on down hill puts and uphill double the distance and it was still stopping short. These play like a 3 on the stimp meter for sure maybe even a 2.

I felt cheated even PAYING $10 to play there. The fairways blend perfectly with the rough and the rough looks like a cow pasture. I’ve never lost so many balls in the fairway in my life. Patches if grass 9 inches tall EVERYWHERE in the field oh sorry the “””fairway”””.

It’s blatantly clear who ever owns this has zero interest in keeping it alive. Let these developers eat the holding costs with this one and DON’T give them a dime. Save your money and buy a Big Mac and you feel more satisfied than playing here.

Pathetic…. there were no fairways. They were all just waste areas…. played here probably three or four years ago. You know it was rough around the edges then but there was still some grass. Tees were like a sand box…..they water greens a little. There was some grass there, but most of them had significant patches of dirt and dead grass….will never play there again….

I've hit balls in a cow pasture that had more grass than the fairways tee boxes and greens at this I guess they call it a golf course.

This was the worst golf course I have ever played. 30 yrs of golf I have never played a club in worse shape.