The Golf Club at Texas A&M

The best course I have been on all year! Very nice and will be hitting this course more often!

We played the TAMU campus course yesterday and even will the frequent rains we were able to play the ball down. Nice layout and greens roll well.

First time on the renovate course. No course diagram on scorecard. Purchased yardage brochure.

Worth price. Not a lot of players.

I have played this course several times during the week and the pace of play was great; however, I tried playing a round on Saturday and it took almost 5 hours. The course is in nice shape. The fairways and greens.are really nice. I will play it again, but I will stick to the weekdays.

First time I had played the course since the remodel in 2013. Wide open golf course...wish they had left more trees during the remodel. Huge (excellent) greens with lots of slope & speed (10.5). Just like the old course....lots of leaks, irrigation puddles in the fairways (plugged drives on #3, #4, #6 & #14. For as much as the "big school" spent on the remodel you would think the maintainence crew (Sterling Golf) would pay attention to details. For $25 it was a great value.

The greens were comprised by dozens of unrepaired ball marks. Other than that they were fast and consistent. A hole map on the back of the scorecard would help.

The Greens are very fast, and the course is well maintained. I love it senses the remodel lots more sand traps fun to play.

Played here many times and like it. When a Hot Deals is available is when we play. Standard rate is on the 'too much' cusp.

If you like fast, fair and true greens, this is a great place to play.

The course was good for the time of year I played. Staff were friendly and helpful. A little confusing for a first timer. I would play this course again in the spring and summer.

... no one's listening. Suggestions are met with confrontations.

Played this course since the 70's, seen hole layouts shortened, lengthened and even reversed but this layout (esp. #6) comes from seems to be an insider novice designer bent on more length = more better.

PROS:

+ There's good grass everywhere/anywhere you hit/mis-hit the ball - luxurious.

+ Bunkers are excellent, well kept

+ Landscape crews WAIT for you to play, then move on = etiquette, not always typical on other courses

+ Burgers/etc. have rejoined clubhouse experience (once voted best burgers in town long ago then replaced by vending machines).

+ Driving range - no course should be w/o one

+ New vegetation promises to eventually create the nice ambiance the old course once had before being a) chainsawed then b)bulldozed

+ More of the property is being used for golfing and thankfully saved from new building construction thus far

+ Convenient, 1st Class facility potential to Brazos Co. locals

+ Coach Ellis PGA Pro still teaches classes there, always helpful

CONS:

- One bathroom clubhouse, only one more "out there" halfway house (port-a-potty if not in service); impossible situation for children, some women, all walkers and all seniors ... (there no more bushes, as if one to use them anyway)

- Only time for 9 holes? Pay full price until almost dusk, sucker. F-Sa-Sun = full price w/cart, no walkers!

- Beer flows, personalities change; once no booze on campus made this a delightful course as boozers went elsewhere.

- Newcomers easily get lost on course w/o a map (more money spent) as scorecard only shows hole layout segregated, signage not always clear (#6) where to drive the ball to your landing zone.

- Mostly windy as native trees from the old days were dozed for this insider designer

- Very odd driving range, always off mats when I've been over 2 doz. times and no yardage targets, only greens who have a yardage card/placard ... being downhill, balls not always easily spotted where they go ... watch out for driving into a fairway like #10 or dogleg #18 ... but this was always a bit like that

- Mostly long & boring holes but peppered with high stress, risk=reward ones that test one's "cool"

- Improvement suggestions are met with either deaf ears or invitations to wrestle over them, perhaps they know-it-all?

Friendly to riders drinking beer, having a burger, tournaments, anything making money.

No intent to attract children, seniors, women, walkers, 9-holers, discounted memberships to special groups. Note: the dawn seniors group pretty much was forced out to Bryan Muni, some splintered off to Briarcrest CC/Philips-something and no attempt to attract them back.

Missing the old course and ambiance.

Not nearly as easy as it looks. It gives you room to spray the ball a little and has large greens, which are in great shape, and a little tricky. A very enjoyable course in the shadows of A&M .Definitely worth the 75 minute drive for me.