West Palm Beach Golf Course
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About
Editor's Note: Course closed for business in 2018.
West Palm Beach Golf Course has hosted a variety of tournaments since opening in 1947, some that have included famous players such as Arnold Palmer. This historic course stands out from all of the area's public courses. Unlike Florida's many flat courses, West Palm Beach has an undulating terrain that provides interesting elevation changes. The course features elevated tees and greens and rarely is there a flat lie. The rolling hills are covered with native vegetation, palm trees, and mature pines and oaks. There is also no water to be found on the golf course, another rare occurrence in this area. In 2009, the course underwent a major renovation that made it environmentally friendly. There is also a full grass driving range and large practice area that overlook West Palm Beach Golf Course.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 7002 yards | 73.0 | 128 |
| Blue | 72 | 6526 yards | 70.9 | 122 |
| White | 72 | 6051 yards | 68.3 | 117 |
| White (W) | 72 | 6051 yards | 74.0 | 124 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 5577 yards | 71.4 | 118 |
| Gold | 72 | 5577 yards | 66.1 | 112 |
| Silver (W) | 72 | 5023 yards | 68.3 | 115 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow M: 74.2/139 W: 80.7/147 | 564 | 416 | 158 | 477 | 260 | 395 | 201 | 453 | 586 | 3510 | 453 | 186 | 474 | 430 | 519 | 510 | 303 | 174 | 586 | 3635 | 7145 |
| Black M: 71.9/134 W: 78.1/140 | 540 | 391 | 140 | 451 | 227 | 359 | 185 | 400 | 550 | 3243 | 433 | 171 | 444 | 405 | 473 | 494 | 281 | 164 | 562 | 3427 | 6670 |
| Light Blue M: 69.1/127 W: 75.0/135 | 505 | 360 | 116 | 386 | 196 | 324 | 161 | 379 | 516 | 2943 | 411 | 141 | 403 | 374 | 443 | 457 | 261 | 144 | 534 | 3168 | 6111 |
| Sand M: 66.7/122 W: 72.1/129 | 471 | 327 | 103 | 365 | 170 | 279 | 140 | 349 | 468 | 2672 | 382 | 127 | 372 | 348 | 414 | 415 | 246 | 132 | 487 | 2923 | 5595 |
| Green M: 62.9/110 W: 67.2/118 | 448 | 268 | 92 | 324 | 121 | 250 | 114 | 290 | 429 | 2336 | 308 | 105 | 264 | 323 | 390 | 357 | 196 | 89 | 399 | 2431 | 4767 |
| Handicap | 13 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 6 | |||
| Par | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 71 |
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Sand, ,sand and more sand.
If you're looking for a challenge at a great price, this is the course for you. There are no water hazards in the course, but there is sure a lot of sand. The greens are surrounded by bunkers, the fairways are peppered with bunkers and the fairways themselves are surrounded by sand. The greens are elevated, and the course as a whole offers pretty good elevation changes, especially for South Florida. To add more fuel to the challenge, the day I played was extremely windy, 10-20 mph winds all throughout. Overall, this is a pretty great course for a municipal course, the greens are in awesome shape and rolled pretty fast, and with tons of undulations. This course ate my lunch, I cannot wait to come back again to try to beat my pretty horrendous score.
Hi "u000005819941" Thank you for the 4 star review. We hope that you will give us another try in the near future so that we can turn your 4 star rating into 5 stars.
Hi "u000005334443" Thank you for the 4 star review. We hope that you will give us another try in the near future so that we can turn your 4 star rating into 5 stars.
Pace of play is poor due to walkers
It is absolutely crazy to permit golfers to walk before 2 pm, as in our case with an 11:48 tee time, we had two groups of walkers in front of us. We repeatedly lost the momentum of playing.
Also, there was a lot of trash laying about the course.
The starter was courteous and polite.
HI "jhreyelt" Thank you for the feedback, we will definitely look into this and see what the hold up is. We try and allow all golfers to play as long as the pace is kept up. We appreciate you making us aware of this and hope to see you again before the end of the year.
great dick wilson course
I really enjoy playing WPB, and the elevation changes are great and can make some of those 430+ holes into the wind and uphill just brutal! i would rather play this course 20 times before park ridge, the other south florida course with elevation change. all of the greens are elevated, very true to designer dick wilson, even some blind shots from certain sides of the fairways. the waste areas, which i like better than water for obvious reasons, can be frustrating if you end up in a deep foot print. great value for this course in the winter and i would recommend it to anyone.
Hi "tjw1029" Thanks for the great review! We are so glad you enjoyed your round with us, we hope that the weather cooperated today and that is wasn't to difficult for you. We hope to see you again soon before the end of the year.
Conditions declining
Played here before not as good as previous times
Hi "u922618329" We appreciate your honest feedback. We are constantly trying to improve the overall facility. We hope that you will give us another try in the near future.
Nice layout
Good value. Greens in good condition. Good value.
Hi "jkittay" Thank you for leaving us a review. We hope you enjoyed your day with us, please come back and see us again soon for another great round.
Good layout
This course has a fine assortment of doglegs… They used to be accentuated by trees lining the fairways but about 10 years ago thousands of trees were removed and now the course is not as pretty and a tremendous amount of waste bunkers have been established… We did have a problem with a foursome that took time off for lunch and then attempted to jump back into play ....they backed up the entire course… And assistant professional and head profession we're out there often to monitor their play to keep play moving… This is the first time I've actually seen management try to resolve a problem… The management staff did a fine job of working with this foursome
Hi "johnpenty " Thank you for leaving us a review. We appreciate the kind feedback as management did keep an eye on a few foursomes this day to make sure pace of play was at its best. Thank you for the comments , and hope to see you again soon.
West palm golf course
The car guy was not available to take our clubs and show us what card we can use. When we got to the starter he was very unfriendly and did not make any effort to introduce himself and tell us what the plan is I'm getting out on the course on time. He let a foursome out that was late and then a twosome which totally messed up play and then finally Let us out 30 minutes late behind two foursomes. 5 1/2 hour around terrible course management and the on ability to set the rate four sums up together
Hi "Christophe4224221" we appreciate your honest feedback, we do often get walk on's at the course and this may have been the case for the back up. We will take a closer look into this situation as 5 1/2 hours is way to long. We appreciate your patience and hope to see you again in the near future.
Getting better
Greens on the fast side but in good shape. Tee boxes improved, fairway grass too short, maybe due to lack of rain. Good pace, good carts, will return.
Hi "maestromur" Thank you for the great review, we are so glad you enjoyed the pace play. Please come back and see us again soon.
Public muni course
Went there for the first time because of special offer for Thanksgiving Day.
Amenities have a lot to be improved. 2/10
Tee Off 3/10
Fairways front 9 3/10 back 9 6/10
Waste areas 2/10
Bunkers 8/10 very nice but still some stones in them
Greens 10/10 just superb
Difficult to understand why the greens and bunkers are so nice and the rest of the course so BAD
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Hi "man0492" We appreciate your honest feedback we will definitely pass this along. We hope to see you back in the near future once the course has undergone some changes.
Very nice
Good course very well maintained
Hi "luckygril2" thanks for the excellent review glad you enjoyed WPB!
Great Course!
Overall I enjoyed playing the course. The only thing I did not like was being paired with other random golfers. I scheduled my Tee Time through GolfNow.com and was unaware that we would be paired with strangers. Not a fan of that. Would prefer at least having a warning on that.
Hi "jamahan23" We appreciate the review. Tee times are booked in groups of four regardless of booking online or at the course. By pairing groups up the wait time in between shots is less versus playing by yourself and waiting on the foursome in front of you. We hope that you will understand and give us another try in the near future.
nice and open
this course is nice and open. a lot of sand on the sides of the fairways. but i like it very much...
Hi "Steven9844596" Thank you for the great review. We hope you stayed out of the sand today and it wasn't much of an issue. Please tell your friends and come back and see us again!
Needs course management
I've played this course a few times and generally been satisfied but my most recent round was less than average. There was a 6-some in front of our 3 and the pace of play was appalling. They totally overbooked for the day to the point where there were 2 groups waiting on every tee. They may want to say it's "the season" but clearly better course management was needed. There were other 5-somes, too, again that should be addressed. Not sure I could recommend the course to anyone based on that round. No ranger, no one trying to keep up the pace, which during the season is really necessary. If you try it be prepared for a looong, slow round.
Hi "Jayhibb" Thank you for your honest review. We apologize about the pace of play on this specific day. Under normal circumstances the pace of play is never an issue. We did however had a lot of walk on's that slowed up the pace of play . We hope that you will understand and give us another try in the future.
Disappointed , extremely slow
Booked 18 holes and only played 9 as it took 31/2 hrs to play 9. I understand it was a beautiful day and lots of people were out. My partner and I followed 4 guys- 3 adults and 1 adolescent. They all played from the black tees which slowed down the game. They never asked us to play through and there were no marshalls out. We left after 9 holes and the starter did not feel she could compensate us. We golfed at a different course today and though busy it moved well and there were four of us not 2 and we played 18 in just under 4 hours. What a difference? We were asked where we played as the couple were visiting Florida and we could not recommend your course.
Hi "Gribbon" We apologize about the slow round, pace of play is always our number one priority for us. We have looked into this specific day and our ranger went home sick so we were unable to make it around to everyone. Next time please call into the golf shop if a group is holding you up, we would of definitely sent someone out to you and had your group play through. We hope that now knowing this you will give us another try and recommend us to your friends.
nice layout, needs TLC
As a once quality course, the layout is very good with a variety of holes and many tee options. The greens were somewhat dried out but still putted true with good speed. Tee boxes are in bad condition and the course overall shows minimal maintenance which would be expected foe a muny course. It is certainly playable with good value for price for a bogey golfer such as myself playing forward tees. There are quite a few walkers some of which are very slow No 19th hole. I will play again.
Hi "Alaich" We appreciate your honest review. The course is currently going through its transition period from summer to fall. We do appreciate your patience as the course takes time to heal. We hope you enjoyed your round with us and hope to see you back out on the course in the near future.
West Palm Beach
Only course in the area with good drainage, all others are under water. Lots of sand, don't forget your SW
Hi "mwengender" Thank you for the great review. We appreciate your feedback and kind words regarding our drainage. We hope you enjoyed your round with us please come back and visit us again soon.
Beach Exactly
layout is pretty cool fairways were in horrible condition, but greens were nice & rolled true. The ruff was actually sugar sand, so keep your ball & cart outta there. This course would be a great course, with a lot of great potential but what do you expect from a city run courses, I don't understand most courses have great fairways with average greens & this is the total opposite, horrible fairways but excellent greens. better than hitting a bucket of balls
Thank U WPB
Hi DJXJ9,
Thank you for playing at West Palm Beach Golf Course. We are happy to hear that you enjoyed round, course conditions, and the layout of our facility. We hope you will be back to see us for a future round soon.
Best Wishes,
West Palm Beach Golf Course Management
Course in great condition
Great staff.
Very friendly staff
Hi Raawj,
Thank you for playing at West Palm Beach Golf Course. We are happy to hear you enjoyed your round and your experience with our staff. We hope you will be back to see us for another round soon!
Best Wishes,
West Palm Beach Golf Course Management
Hi "tiburonazo" Thank you for the honest review. The course is pretty challenging and you definitely need to play it a few times to get your score down. We appreciate the great feedback and hope to see you many more time this 2017 new year.