Hockley Valley Resort

Hockley Valley is, and probably will remain, my favorite golf course. The people in the pro shop are so welcoming and professional. Even when I'm not doing so well on a certain hole, all I have to do is look around at the scenery and I realize how fortunate I am to be at Hockley.

I'd rather sand and water!

Great course. Extremely challenging. Lots of hills and great scenery.
VERY difficult par 3's (Played from the blacks)

Lots of fun!
Only complaint; tee off was at 7:40am and drink
cart never came out until 11:30.
By the back nine, we were falling over.

I played this course early in the morning. Since it was Spring, we had a frost delay, which was fine as it was zero degrees out and would warm up as the day went on. The course was in awesome shape for having just opened a week or two before my round. I can imagine this would be an extremely tough course in the Summer with all the fescue grown in, however, it was fairly easy to find balls when my inevitable slice kicked in. Highly recommended any time of the year!

First of all you need to be a Billy Goat to play this course. I couldn't imagine playing it without a power cart. The elevation changes are severe, it also has some of the greatest views in the area. I'm not going to lie, if you stop for a second to take it in, it'll speak to you. My brother and I make this a regular stop on our spring golf weekend. Even though this course seems to have my number and I find a way to score badly, I still really enjoy it. There are a few tricky greens but not too bad. Maybe the greens keeper was in a good mood for us that day. The good: views, layout, interesting elevation changes, greens overall feel. The bad: weak practice area, bunker and water are sparce, some tight holes that are very penal. We played once and had the course to ourself, second time there was a bit of traffic. Had a sausage dog at the turn that was delicious. I'd definitely play this course again, in fact I will this spring. A solid 4 rating maybe slightly higher because it is so unique.

3rd time playing this year and it never disappoints! This is not an easy course even though it has no sand and only has water on the 18th hole. The views are fantastic, and the course is very fun and challenging. This is not a course that I try to shot a very low score since it never seems to happen but I always enjoy my rounds. I usually shoot mid to high 80s where at hockley im consistently in the mid 90s...... Also, Hockley beer is delicious, unfortunately there wasn't a cart girl but if you have a chance I recommend the amber ale...... I would recommend this course especially if you can score a good deal!

wow, what a great place...undulating greens and fairways. A tee shot in the fairway is very important but you can still be left with an uneven lie. no sand thank god!

Nice course with rolling hills. A little slow play was encountered.

Picturesque course with lots of elevation changes and undulating greens, club selection is challenged on par 3's.

Somewhat like bondhead north or Black diamond, in that the chief feature is serious elevations, which is not neccessarily a great thing. It's cool, and awesome and the views are amazing, but as a golf experience, I'm not sure that that's the way to go. Sort of gimmicky in a way. But it's alot of fun. Went on a slow day, course was packed, and I thought it was going to be super slow, but the pace picked up and we finished in just over four hours. The greens are maniacal too, which is also fun but perhaps too much. Course could have used a good haircut and the greens seemed a little raggedy. We played for $25 on a hot deal which of course is amazing. You have to take a cart! The hills are ridiculous! Views are amazing. Had a great time, would definitely go again. Almost forgot, no sand bunkers, only grass bunkers, again, gimmicky, interesting.

Beautiful scenery and the course is very playable. Lots of opportunities to go for it and extreme elevation changes on par 3s make for interesting club selection. Definitely a course worth playing again.

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Great course and challenging layout. Absolutely brutal pace of play yesterday, 5:20. Unbearable, we were 20 minutes late for our second tee time in the afternoon. So of course no time to get anything to eat or drink. Figured we'd hit the halfway house (since of course there was no cart going around). Halfway house was closed; no food, no water, no beer, no gatorade. Ridiculous. They need to pay more attention to these details. Very bush league imho.

Just make sure you take everything you might want to consume and I guess you'll be fine. Really ruined a beautiful day.

It was a very beautiful course with some degree of difficulty even though there is no sand bunkers or water hazards. The challenges came with the curves and slopes in the fairways. Overall it is worth the money just to see the scenery of the course. The only problem with course was the past of play from the group of 4 in front of my friend and I but, It was an amazing looking course with beautiful views

played this course numerous times now. most recently played from the second set of tees. I shoot around 100 on most courses and play up on this course due to the difficulty of some holes. lots of elevation changes and tough meandering greens. my advice is to play up to achieve a couple pars. a tough course for women if they have trouble carrying distance off the tee.

The view from the tee's are beautiful, even from the middle of the fairway,, greens were great, tough course but highly enjoyable experience, recommenable

This is a great course if you are looking to challenge yourself a little bit. I have played this course before and had an excellent experience, however my most recent round was not a good experience for the two guest I brought to the course for the first time. It was the pace of play that ruined the day, it started out moving ok, but later in the round there would be at least two groups waiting on the tees to hit, and no marshal in sight to try to remedy the problem. Unfortunately it became such an issue that my guests decided to leave with two holes left, not a good end to the round.

Challenging course, no two holes alike. Calls for precision play as the fairways are narrow and the greens small with lots of hazards. The greens need attention to make them faster. Staff & food excellant. Seemed to be a lot of doubles going off for a busy time of day. Little to no visibility of marshals after T off. Fun course at the price that I paid!

Friendly staff. Challenging course for all handicaps.

Rated "overall facilities" average because I couldn't understand why washrooms were co-op though there were two of them side by side. Female point of view is that, there should never be co-op washrooms.

The course seemed like it was on last days of operations. Weeds in fairways, no starter or Marshall to be found anywhere. Not a sand trap to be found. Grass off fairways in rough shape.