Old at Firewheel Golf Park

They’re doing a bunch of construction on the Old course which will hopefully improve things, but for now, the course is a mess. The greens are terrible. Most hard as a rock and bumpy/dead. Carts on the cart path only, so A LOT of walking. Sprinkler pieces dug up and laying around all over the course. The 18th had a make-shift green sitting right in the middle of the fairway, like a hundred yards from the actual hole. That was confusing.

Slow play and bad greens to go along with reconstruction. Not the best round I've ever had. I was told that they will be closing the course soon for a major reconstruction, but it appears that they have already started based on the conditions.

Played it today and it was a complete mud pit after only a 1/4” of rain last night. The fairways don’t have a lot of grass. I understand they’re about to close for renovations so looks like they aren’t maintaining the course. Which would be nice to know before booking. Greens were a disgrace. Dead in spots, patchy sprouts everywhere else. I’ve never see so many old hole locations with extremely poorly filled holes. It was like the moon’s surface. For $48 thought it was overpriced considering the conditions. I won’t be back until the renovation is complete.

Even for the time it year this course is in terrible condition. They are replacing the irrigation system and are not watering the greens so they are awful. The fairways are like concrete.

If fine this course a year or two to recover and then m maybe try it again.

I played here ten years or so ago and remember it being a decent course, but they have let it go completely. There was literally ONE tee box that I could get a tee into the ground without breaking it. It is clear they haven’t watered at all this year…greens were terrible. Fairways were worse…nothing but weeds and dirt. I don’t think I hit a single shot off of grass. I hit a perfect 8 iron on one of the par threes, landed it about 10 yards in front of the greeen because it was clear that balls were not stopping on greens, and it still bounced and ended up 5 yards behind the green.

I’m no scratch player, but I play enough to know this is about as bad as it gets…and to top all of that off, they don’t even have a proper bar to drown the sorrows of a terrible round when you’re done.

Never again.

The worst conditions I have ever seen a course in. Been playing this course consistently for the last year and a half and stopped playing it because of the winter. Came back this spring and when I say it is pathetic I mean it. I broke 6-7 tees just trying to get them in the tee boxes, middle of the fairway (which I never find myself in except here, of course) is just gravel, no grass to be seen except for the weeds growing around the base of the trees. Construction is going on everywhere. They are chopping down a bunch of trees and there are wood chips lining just about every hole. And of course the range is down when we go, the one savior they could have and we can’t even use it. Bunkers are concrete, greens are half dead everywhere. Pin placements are laughable. Please go anywhere else than this, you will have more fun staying home on your couch than playing this course. Trust me.

Looks like they are getting ready to install new irrigation and upgrade the course. Currently it is in poor condition and almost entirely hard pan. Greens still dormant from winter

I started playing here more last year 2024. This year 2025 I plan on playing a lot more. The Old Course I believe is closing for remainder of upgrades. Super excited to see the outcome.

Played the Old Course after getting a deal on a Saturday afternoon tee time. First time at Firewheel and was pleasantly surprised by the overall size of the complex.

The Old Course was in decent condition for the winter. There were some patchy areas in the fairways and the greens need a little love but for $40, I’d play again. The course is wide open and pretty forgiving for a beginner. It’s the last course to be renovated, but they’ve begun doing work laying pipes & wires. I look forward to playing the other two courses soon.

The course currently has heavy equipment stationed on numerous holes...they are under going major irrigation system upgrades. Including open trenches with exposed water mains. Fairways obviously have not seen water...nor have the greens.

No beverage cart, no ranger for pace of play, course had a lot of construction going on. This course doesn’t get the same amount of attention or love as the newer courses at Firewheel and it shows.

Muddy and cartpath only not ideal. Courses should alert prior to booking.

Since it is Winter, the grass was brown. sometimes it was hard to locate the ball in the fairway. There also a number of places where there was no turf. I usually move the ball in those cases so as not to have to hit off of hard dirt.

As the day progressed it did get warmer, abut 50 degrees. I thought that was quite pleasant.

All in all, I enjoyed my round. As of today, here in the greater Dallas area, we are going to get lots of Rain for the next 2-3 days. So I took the opportunity to play when I could.