Roy Kizer Golf Course

If you live in S Austin this is the place to golf. Great people and nice facilities for any level of golfers. Both courses are awesome and well maintained. Driving range,putting greens, and a short course are available all day.

This is probably my favourite Muni in the Austin metro area. Fairly wide and forgiving, the course is usually in reasonable condition. I have heard lately that there have been some issues with the greens. On this sunny day in September there were no such problems.

Fairways were nicely cut and the ball tended to sit up, greens true, if a little slow. The holes tend to be fairly wide off the tee, but there is plenty of water and bunkering that can make things difficult.

Hole highlights for me are the par 4 3rd with bunkers right in the driver landing zone. Depending on the tees you play and the wind, you can drive them but the safer approach of being short of the bunkers requires an unsighted approach to a green with bunkers and OB behind the green.

The par 4 11th is a difficult hole that requires a very decent drive over water and a fairway bunker for a mid-to low iron approach. It can play as a par five if the wind is not right.

I like the short par 16. Driveable but a deep bunker protects the front, and a ditch behind protects a thin green. Lay up and take a wedge approach instead.

The 17th is also a lovely dog-leg left par 5.

As mentioned in my Jimmy Clay review (in my opinion the poorer-cousin conditions wise), the 36 hole golf complex has a 4 hole par-3 course (with another practice putting green and bunker), a full grass driving range, two putting greens and even an area where you can hit your own balls (beside Jimmy Clay #9 hole). An excellent setup for a public course.

Always had a good time here.

Excellent condition. Great pace of play. Fun to play a links style course in Austin.

For being the end of a very dry summer 2018, we found the course to be in really good condition. Tee boxes, fairways, rough, and greens were all in surprisingly good shape.

It's been 5-1/2 years since I last reviewed this course. In reading my last review and thinking about playing this course yet again, it remains my opinion that it's easily one of the most open courses available to all skill levels. You have many wide fairways, normal rough, normal bunkers, and good sized greens. It's not one of those courses with towering trees ready to knock you down when you're not hitting perfectly off the tee. It's not going to give you any significant forced carries either. For all of these reasons, I find it to be a great course to relax and practice your shots a bit more. Instead of having to play course obstacles, you can use this course to work on target placement shots. You don't have to just hit it as far as possible nor over a particular obstacle. You can opt to play a hole from one side or another just to give yourself a different angle on the next shot. I like that I don't have to play a hole the same way every time. Know what I mean!?

I can't say much about the bunkers as I didn't find any today. My playing partners however found them challenging ... but that was 99.9% their playing ability (for today) and only 0.1% issues with the bunker conditions. The water, however, was still wet as always; found it a couple of times. The greens were slow today mainly because they'd aerated a week prior. And then we had rain the night before and day of play. So we had to adjust our putting power a bit. I only saw one green with any kind of issue (a small patch of fungi or something got to it). Otherwise, we were very pleased with their condition and how they rolled.

We played on a Tuesday afternoon. I found it odd that they had a beverage cart running around the course. I'd normally only expect that on (maybe) Friday thru Sunday. It's nice to have it. However, one tip for the course and/or cart driver ... make sure you have the basics in stock. When asked about cokes, we were told she only had DIET Coca-Cola and DIET Dr Pepper. Really!? Only diet on the cart!? How does that happen ... ever? The course or the cart gal simply failed in keeping proper inventory.

They also had a marshal driving around and he passed us at least twice during our round. Everything was pretty easy going this round so there weren't any issues. But I like seeing a marshal making regular rounds.

The walking pushcart 3-some that we caught up to for the last four (4) holes were slow. They each took quite a bit of extra time with every single shot. We might've had the marshal say something to them had he been around at that point. On a normal lazy Tuesday we wouldn't have minded too much. But on this day we had a dark thunderstorm rolling in on us. They could've picked up the pace just a bit so that we could all finish our respective rounds. Instead, we had to skip the final hole (I gave myself a bogey) while they s-l-o-w-l-y finished it out. They were senior players and someday (many years from now) I'll be one of those guys. But I guarantee I'll still play at a good pace and be aware of other groups around me.

Seems the dog days of summer have beat down the course a little. I played 3 months ago and the course was in better shape. Good course considering the lack of rain lately.

Even though many folks I speak with in Austin say Kizer is their favorite of the city courses, for me it's 4th on the pecking order behind Clay-Lions-Mo Willy.

That said, Kizer seems to be kept in some of the most consistent shape and Mo Willy has been struggling with its greens this year. So that said, it's probably #3 at least in 2018. During our hot August round, the greens were pretty much flawless.

I just think the other three city layouts have a little more character to them. Kizer is wide open and can get breezy, so a lot of folks refer to it as "links" but there are a lot of wetlands to navigate. All in all there are just fewer holes I get excited about playing at Kizer vs. the other Austin munis.

Played on a very hot Thursday afternoon. Course was in terrific shape...especially considering how hot and dry this summer has been. But pace of play was glacial....especially for a Thursday afternoon. Saw at least 2 fivesomes ahead of my group. Waited on EVERY shot. In addition to throwing off my playing rhythm, it was no fun just to be waiting in the sun and 100 degree temps. Stop booking fivesomes!!!!!

A unique golf experience for Austin. Wide-open links style with only one two holes with any trees to contend with. The main challenge is wind, water, bunkers and moguls. Played on a cooler afternoon this summer and it was just perfect. Fairways are lush for the most part. Green are good. The only problem was that weeding was needed on the collars of a few of the greens. Kizer is also a nature preserve so its natural beauty, especially near sundown, is up there with the best in the area.

Great, open course with some challenging greens on the back 9. Fairways are in superb shape. Had a great time for $30 round!

I found a hot deal for $14--an awesome value for this course. The greens have been aerated and sanded, so it may be some time before they are in better shape. That said, I was all alone and it was a great time.

I like the rhythm of the course. The marshall, Carlos, was making me laugh when he came by. It was ~97 out and he told me he was trying to get the A/C turned on... I loved that haha

Not my first or last time at Roy Kizer or Jimmy Clay.

Aerified and sanded the greens on Monday 6/25/18. Course is in pretty good shape, but GolfNow did not have an aerification notice. Other than that, no complaints. Greens are extremely slow (long grass + sand)

I got a Hot Deal from GolfNow to play Roy Kizer on Monday so I jumped on it.

The weather was predicting some chances of rain, but it didn't hold me back. Possibly the threat of rain and it being Monday made the course wide open for play at the time of my tee time.

The fairways and greens were in great shape (compared to next door course, Jimmy Clay) with wide fairways, a goodly amount of water and bunkers to negotiate and make it more challenging, and really good shaped greens that were fairly slow for easier play. Only one green was in poor shape, but the challenge of the hole made up for it.

My only complaint about the course was the marking of distances to the pin. Oh, it had it's requisite markers of 200, 150 and 100 yards on the cart path and on a few holes, but for the most part, I was merely guessing the distance to the pin.

I suppose I'll have to buy a distance spotter.

But, I really was pleased with my outing and will definitely come back again with a friend next time.

I showed up at 12:40 for a 1:12 time in the rain. No one around. A dozen players out on the course. The sour puss in the pro shop tells me that I have to wait to see if his other 1:12 shows up. "I'll call you - just don't leave until you hear from ME." says the big-shot.

All to save a cart. Of course, the other guy doesn't show - the rain is steady now. So I slog around 18 holes in rain growing heavier by the minute. 2 hours 50 minutes. It would sure have been nice to have those extra 32 minutes at the beginning of the round.

I would love to! I’ll bring a bottle of wine. Rudy’s in Houston he may or may not be back in time but I want to catch up with you guys

Roy Kizer all the time so really good golf course they keep it in good shape but they do not know how to cut greens they are slow!