Pines at Woodmont Country Club

Today I expected to play a round of golf on a beautiful day. Well that is not what happened. At the time of my TeeOff a threesome rolls up and immediately tells the starter they will not play a round with me because I was wearing my MAGA hat. I said ok I’ll play with the next threesome, they too told the starter they would not play with me. I told the starter I would play alone and he told me he couldn’t and I should go to pro shop for a refund. I asked if this was their policy of discriminating against golfers that supported the President. They apologized for the inconvenience. That being said avoid this course at all costs as it obviously anti anybody that believes in Making America Great Again.

I would definitely recommend this course to anyone traveling in the Fort Lauderdale area. The only negative feedback I have is just the proximity of the Pines course to clubhouse. At one point you have to drive the golf cart through a 4way stop- sign intersection.

I played this course with my buddies a few times I enjoy it. The front line has been redone and it's incredible. The back line still needs some work but still a very nice course. Nice surrounding lots of huge lakes, beautiful trees. We enjoyed every time I played there.

Pros

- good layout

- front 9 greens and bunkers have been renovated ( back 9 will soon be upgraded)

- good pace 4:11 minutes a 3some behind several foursomes

Cons

- fellow golfers: fill divots, fix pitch marks and rake bunkers

The course has been around for sometime. The 27 hole layout with its typical Florida meandering holes amongst housing developments. Somehow they sold the driving range to a developer to build more homes. Now, the driving range is made up of netted bays.

This notwithstanding, the course layout offers quite a challenge with its variety of holes and doglegs with critical ball placements. Also, I enjoyed the 5 par 3s ( 3 on the front and 2 on the back).

Carrying a 6 index , I added some “fun” by playing the five par 3 s from the tips ( gold) and all other holes from the blues. It added both a nice degree of variety and distance exceeding 200/210 yrs.

Compliments to the staff that worked on the front 9 renovation of greens and bunkers. The day before I played, it rained all day and night. When we played all drained very well - excellent sand and fast greens. I will say though that the back nine greens allowed you to stick the ball on the green and play with more spin given their moisture.

The staff was welcoming and made for an enjoyable day.

We played the Cypress course twice and loved it. The course was in great shape, and the pace of play was good. The staff was very friendly. Snack offerings could have been better, but the sandwiches at the turn were great. Will play again when we come to Ft Lauderdale!

Course was in good shape. A couple of greens had some rough spots but overall great.

Love both courses. Great value for the money. Staff is super friendly. Greens are great, a lot of subtle challenges in layout give a good mix of play.

Played with another single that had game, so that was enjoyable. Greens were awesome and fast, but true. Fairways and rough were good as were the tee boxes. Nice track!

Good things I can say are that I teed off early and got my round done in 2.5 hours. I played alone. I was met in the parking lot with a cart as soon as I pulled my car up, which was convenient. They also took the cart once I loaded my car at the end of the round. Staff was great.

The golf course itself was a different story. If you want to just hack around this is your course. If you are a golfer then just move on. Don't expect a good lie, even in the fairway which had shotty grass and weeds. The rough was basically barnyard grass/weeds and cloverleaf or even worse. The greens were ugly and contaminated but actually rolled pretty well.

I am new to the area looking for courses to play but I will definitely not return to this one.