Lakes at Firewheel Golf Park

To me, this course is much more difficult than The Old Course. And requires as much thought to get around the course as The Bridges. This time out, the fairways were really hard. So, hitting a record drive should have been no big deal. Good thing is, the greens were very receptive and rolled well. For the duffer, don't even think about cutting the corner on the par four, fifth hole. If you push your drive right on the par five, number eight, hit no more than an eight iron into the fairway, right of the bunker. You will still have a par opportunity. On the par four, twelfth, every thing roles to the right, toward the water, and there's a big tree on the left side of the fairway. So, consider just writing down a double and moving on. Not really. I have parred this hole before. You'll enjoy The Lakes, if you stay out of them.

First time at Firewheel Lakes Course. Overall, it was fine and in good shape, but nothing remarkable or memorable about it.

The course was nice (much better than Firewheel's Old Course). Tee boxes, fairways, bunkers, greens all in good shape.

The Par 3s all felt the same - not a whole lot of difference in distance or club selection. There are some tight fairways to deal with. Not a whole lot of drink / snack cart attention.

The experience was fine, but that's about all I can say. It's not a destination, but it can be close and serviceable for a regular round. Nothing bad to say about the course, but nothing great to say either.

The only thing keeping me from giving the course an excellent rating is the first hole.
Really ugly rough, dirt, and rocks on the right side of the fairway and rough. Tees, fairways, greens are in fantastic shape. Even with the rain that day, the course was fun to play. Stay out of the rough!!! On par five number 9, ere to the right a touch on your tee shot to avoid some water. Then, if you hit a good one, the duffer (me) needs to lay up with a nice smooth 7 iron. Heroes who go for it are likely to put it in the creek, either left or right of the green. Ask me how I know. Hamburger was really good!

Scenic course tucked in the city of Garland. Great, traditional layout that will provide a challenge for any level player if you play from the proper tees. Not a long, course, but need to keep it in play off the tee. Plenty of opportunities with the shorter par 5's. Nice greens! Careful with all the "Lakes!"

Good conditions, a little slow on the pace. Well worth the money. I recommend keeping all 3 courses on the short list of places to use as a fallback.

Course was in great shape, but the pace of play was lacking. Understandably so as it was a great day for golf. Just couldn't get in a rhythm when having to wait on each shot on each hole.

I'll be back!

This course was a fairly difficult one. I liked the challenge though. It was my first time playing and it was difficult one 3-4 holes know how far creeks and lakes and on one hole in particular which fairway to aim for. We had someone with us who had played it before so they did their best to navigate around the course. Greens were a very good pace for me. They seemed hard but we're surprisingly receptive. 4/5 smoothness to them also. Fairways and roughs were mowed an excellent height. Lush roughs. Bunkers had some work being done to a few of them but most did very well to hit out of. Would highly recommend

Play the bridges course at Firewheel. The lakes course was not in that great of shape. The greens were way better at the bridges course and they had GPS in the carts.

This is a good course that makes you focus on shot placement. Unlike the old and bridges course the lakes is all about placement. There are a few holes that allow you to open up with a driver but not many twice I drove it into water because I didn't pay attention to where I wanted the ball to land. The food needs an upgrade and the cart paths mirror Dallas streets with massive bumps and areas of raised concrete. The staff is friendly and I give them an A.

I love the layout...it has great bunkers wide open fairways nice soft greens, it's a beautiful
course and I will play it again for the price I pay on Tuesday

Thanks,
Kevin

It's a tough course I admit but the bunkers could've been better greens had a lot of debris on them. Overall it was decent but needs some work

Greens had not been mowed today so they were extremely slow and bumpy. Most sand traps had no sand and were grown over with weeds. No monitoring of pace of play. We played at a rate of 20 minutes per hole so my friend and I had to quit after 13 holes because we were over 4 hours into the round and had to go to work. I would not recommend this course to anyone.

Course was in pretty bad shape this time out. Fairways were like hitting out of the rough and the rough might as well have been OB. On a course that's alread pretty tight it made for frustrating day. Whole group had a lot of shots that seemed playable only to never find the ball. I understand that it's the middle of summer so the grass needs to be kept a little longer, but this was like hitting out of the bush. Number 10 is still the hardest hole in dallas a lot of fun to play.

Course was fine considerering the recent floods. Traps are still a work in progress. However the ones that were repaired were in great shape.

I was pretty upset that the greens were just punched last week ... Makes for a pointless round if you cannot putt.

Bunkers unplayable. Greens recently airrated. The $42 price was overpriced for condition of course

Wish they would mow the grass. Lost a bunch of balls that should have been playable but couldn't find them in the thick rough. Overall greens should be in good condition in another week since they were just punched recently.

I've played the Bridges Course several times, but this was my first time playing this course. The fairways were cut low, course was in nice shape, and the greens were soft and fast. I'm a 6 hcp and I shot 77 from blue to give you an idea of the difficulty.

My only complaint was pace of play, a lack of marshalls, and the cart girl came around once in nearly 5 hours. Also, some of the holes are so close together that there is often an issue with people hitting into you.

Bring a lot of balls. They aren't cutting the roughs short enough and you will lose a lot, a lot of balls!! Wasn't that way 1 or 2 years ago. If you can always keep it in the fairway, ok, otherwise expect problems.

The grill ain;t as good as it used to be !!

Played less than 8 hours after a heavy rain storm and was impressed with the course condition - a few soggy low-lying areas but in general not as bad as expected.

This was a great course and would highly recommend it. However, my only complaint is the grass outside of the fairway was somewhat high and thick and VERY difficult finding you ball. We lost MANY balls due to not being able to locate our balls and spend quiet a bit of time looking for them as well. That was a complaint by many other golfers having the same problem. Otherwise, great time!