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3 Stars
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2 Stars
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1 Stars
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Conditions
2.6
Value
3.4
Layout
3.5
Friendliness
3.8
Pace
3.4
Amenities
2.6
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About

Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Par 72
Length 7002 yards
Slope 128
Rating 73.0

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.

Course Details

Year Built 1947
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Tifdwarf Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Dick Wilson (1947) Mark McCumber (2009)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Snacks, Restaurant
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3.0
464 Reviews (464)
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Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Green great, fairway need to improve

This is great course, no waters, but lot of bunker and waste bunker. The green are great but fairway are not very nice . Seem they start to take care because they are putting a lot of week killers aroind the fairway . My feeling is the hignh season. Is coming and start to put money on the course. Staff is good .

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Pappalm

Good course to play at intereresting to play
chalenging if you dont like sand dont go

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 53
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Good course

Fun course to play and surprisingly with no water obstacles so you might go home with just using one ball which otherwise is rare for me.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Challenging Greens, don't get above the hole!

Not the most scenic of courses but a good value municipal course. Fairways not in great condition but greens very good if quick and difficult. The greens are this course's main defence, I three putted lots of greens (as did my partners). Try hatrd to avoid being above the hole, it's possible to miss from two feet downhill! Unusually for Florida there isn't too much water but bunkering is severe with most greens well protected. Good wedge and short iron play is essential if you are to score well. Off course facilities very limited with small pro shop and rudimentary catering facilities. However, everybody friendly and I was teamed up with a great bunch of guys who made me very welcome. I'll definitely play it again if I'm back in the Palm Beach area.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Overbooked tee times

Had a tee time for around 1:40, didn't get to start until 2. Waited for 10 minutes at each hole. By 4:30 we finally finished 9 holes and quit, since we were spending more time waiting than playing. People were playing from the black tees who had no right to be playing from there (several of their tee shots didnt make it to the white tees, and when hit solid travelled 240 at most). They really need to push for tee it up as well as space the tee times out. The course was not in very good condition. Very little difference between fairway and rough.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Good value

Good for average player staff friendly no water lots of sand

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Not bad at all!

No water, but lots a sand traps. Full round took almost 5 hours - no ranger around to speed up. Worth to play - at least once...

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
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Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Nice Golf Course

I could recommend this to any golfer. The course is rather challenging. However there were was no water. The golf course was good.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Stay Away

What a shame, such a great layout and such terrible condition. The tee boxes were like standing in a vacant lot with long patchy grass and dirt. At least the greens were consistent but very slow. The pace of play was pathetic, it took us 2 hours just to finish 6 holes; the pace did pick up a little but it took 4.5 hours to finish.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
First Time Playing
Average weather
Used cart

Nothing Spectacular

You get what you pay for. Price is reasonable. Greens in good shape.
Don't rent clubs here - I had no less than five different makes in my rentals.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 60
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 1000 Contributor
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Nice Muni!

One of the best munis I have played. Loved the layout as it was really different. No water but lots of waste areas. Pace of play could be better but that is my only complaint. Great staff. Decent food at the turn.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

First Time Player

I have been wanting to go and play this course so I found a very good tee time and went over. I found the course to have a very nice layout but the Tee boxes were not up to any standard. They were all torn up and had very little grass to tee up. Overall, I liked the layout but this course was nothing special to me.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Disappointed

I must say that the greens are in great shape, but that's about it, the fairways were very barren of good grass and the tee boxes were in disarray, we had to play winter rules and roll the ball over to find some good grass to hit from, and with the clubhouse gone there was nowhere to get a beer or a sandwich after our round. THe staff was quite friendly though.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Wonderful Experience

Friendly staff, excellent weather and exceptional fairways and greens. This is one of my favorite South Florida courses.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Lots of bunkers

No water but lots of bunkers . Unless your aim is good you will gets lots of practice hitting out of the sand.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 378
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Top 10 Contributor
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Fun course, great value

I love it when I come across municipals that are both affordable and fun to play, and West Palm Beach Municipal certainly fits the bill on both accounts. In fact, if you play it all the way back at 7,000 yards, it's quite a test, but totally not necessary to find challenge. After a renovation a few years ago, the course has a new look than it had in the last couple of decades. More wide open and unlike many courses in Florida, very little water.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great day at west palm golf

Greens were great!!! Fairways, not so much!!!!! Had a fantastic time... I suggest that the members and guests fix their ball marks on the greens and rake the the traps after their bunker play!!!!!!!!! Paul and Debbie were perfect playing partners! Thanks for asking me to play!!!

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

course condition

the greens were good but the fairways were a mess. They had aereated the fairways to try to get some growth. The fairways were thin with a lot of bare spots. I would wait a for at least 4 weeks before I would play there again.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Guarded by Sand

This course was renovated several years ago creating waste areas on both sides of the fairways, narrowing the fairways and, to me, taking a lot of the fun out of the game. Those areas have now grown in somewhat. There's no water hazards or forced carries. The major hurdle are the sand traps, which seriously guard every green and fairway. They are hard to avoid. The fairways are a bit ragged, the greens are okay. Our foursome completed the round in just under 4 hours.

Conditions Fair
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great old country club gone public

Easy access from I-95.no water,but plenty of sand,both bunkered and waste areas.Course is well maintained for public course,with excellent greens and good Dick Wilson layout.Good group of par 3's.Course was being aerated on tees and fairways when we played ,but we just played preferred lies.Original grand Florida clubhouse has been demolished now and club is run out of double wide,but staff is friendly and make you feel welcome.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
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