Old at Firewheel Golf Park

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.

This was my first time to play this course. Scheduled for a fun day with my son. To be fair, they were booked up and pretty crowded. That said, most of the staff didn’t seem to be in any hurry to help out patrons.

Our tee time was at noon, and we arrived over 30 minutes early. The driving range was functional though there were no tees on the mats and it was “mats only”. The problems started when we went to grab a cart and they had none. We had our names called to go to the first tee, but were still waiting on a cart. 5 minutes after our start time, one arrived. No bid deal, right? Except that cart died near the 1st green.

I had our other twosome driver bring me back to the cart shed, where there were still no carts (and no one really working either). I walked all the way through the cart prep area underground and found someone after 5 minutes of looking. We did get a replacement cart, and it held up through the round.

As for the course, the greens were in pretty good shape. However, there were places ALL OVER the course that had serious drainage issues, mud all over, and trenched areas where carts had driven and we almost got stuck multiple times.

For the money, it still wasn’t a good deal. Not sure I’d go back.

Disappointed by the large powerline going across the fairway on a par 4 hole. Never seen that before on any course we’ve played.

This was my first time playing “The Old Course” I’d played “The Bridges” before and had a nice experience. I thought they would be similar. I was wrong. The pro shop was fine, but you have to go through a weird abandoned lobby to get there. It had rained the day before, which if there was grass throughout the course, wouldn’t have been a problem, but unfortunately the course had large expanses of dirt, or should I say mud? The entire course was cart path only. If there was actual grass, maybe this wouldn’t have been necessary. The greens were terrible. The previous days’ holes were not filled in correctly. Some were poached in too far and made a crater, while others weren’t poached in far enough, and made a plateau above the level of the green.

The staff needs to communicate to potential golfers about the state of the course. Construction impacted 2 holes on the back 9. Tire tracks and even muddy ruts on the edge of several greens. Greens were patchy with lots of bare spots. Tee boxes and greens were like concrete. Actually broke several tees trying to get them in the ground. Booked a later tee time knowing I might have to play the last few holes as the sun was going down. The course supposedly closed at 7pm but they required the carts be returned at 5:30. With the slow course play and the early cart return I only got to play 15 holes.

Although the greens are still in good shape, it appears they have started to let the fairways go. Lots of dead spots and dirt. It also appears they’re doing a lot of construction either new either drainage or sewer pipe so several holes are torn up.