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Riverside Golf Club
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Riverside Golf Club is appropriately named. The course sits in a floodplain along the Trinity River with water in play on seemingly every hole. This is a combination links-style/traditional layout that is surprisingly difficult for a municipal course. Great holes abound on the Roger Packard layout, which requires the rare combination of length and accuracy when playing from the tips.
Holes 4-6 offer one of the better stretches of golf, starting with a 462-yard par 4 that is cut in the landing area by pesky fairway bunkers, and features a long approach into an elevated green that is surrounded by water and slopes back-to-front. Club down on no. 4 because leaving it short still offers the chance for an up-and-down. No. 5 is a good par 3, especially from the middle tees where it generally plays as a short iron. Watch for the front pin placement, which can leave you with a long downhill putt if the tee shot is too long. Water looms to the right but it takes a bad shank to dunk it in the drink. No. 6 goes 543 yards, doglegging left along the Trinity with water fronting the green. The tee shot must be long and straight, and anything too far right leaves a precarious second shot around the bend.
The back side is the more fun of the two, taking you through good combinations of holes that offer excellent birdie opportunities if you’re on your game. You'll need those birds when you come down the home stretch.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 6957 yards | 74.4 | 132 |
| Blue | 72 | 6389 yards | 71.5 | 126 |
| White | 72 | 5783 yards | 68.4 | 119 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5247 yards | 69.5 | 113 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 74.1/131 | 442 | 504 | 377 | 462 | 212 | 543 | 434 | 198 | 450 | 3622 | 402 | 544 | 355 | 181 | 545 | 325 | 179 | 366 | 438 | 3335 | 6957 |
| Blue M: 71.2/128 | 392 | 472 | 358 | 402 | 154 | 512 | 404 | 175 | 411 | 3280 | 371 | 506 | 320 | 155 | 515 | 320 | 168 | 343 | 411 | 3109 | 6389 |
| White M: 69.0/120 W: 75.2/126 | 352 | 422 | 327 | 371 | 121 | 486 | 279 | 155 | 394 | 2907 | 337 | 474 | 292 | 123 | 490 | 317 | 141 | 320 | 382 | 2876 | 5783 |
| Silver M: 67.0/118 W: 72.4/122 | 340 | 410 | 295 | 320 | 100 | 471 | 275 | 140 | 382 | 2733 | 290 | 440 | 275 | 110 | 480 | 315 | 98 | 310 | 375 | 2693 | 5426 |
| Red W: 70.8/120 | 330 | 407 | 276 | 300 | 84 | 463 | 270 | 134 | 376 | 2640 | 286 | 427 | 263 | 96 | 471 | 313 | 92 | 296 | 363 | 2607 | 5247 |
| Handicap | 13 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 2 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 14 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
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Photo submitted by u5118160 on 06/27/2025
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Photo submitted by Masematt on 06/21/2023
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Photo submitted by u314159892591 on 09/29/2020
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Photo submitted by dwaz777 on 09/26/2020
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Morning on the Range before round Photo submitted by p51Clarkie on 10/06/2019
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Photo submitted by InkedGolfer80 on 09/04/2018
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Photo submitted by InkedGolfer80 on 09/04/2018
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Photo submitted by InkedGolfer80 on 09/04/2018
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Photo submitted by InkedGolfer80 on 09/04/2018
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Photo submitted by InkedGolfer80 on 09/04/2018
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Photo submitted by InkedGolfer80 on 09/04/2018
Excellent Course
The greens were well kept and fast, tee boxes were immaculate, and the fairway was in good shape. This is a really good value course that if they put some money in could be a real gem. No cart girl and the bunkers need work.
Slow paced rounds!!!!
Friendly staffs at pro shop.
Happy Veterans day!!!
No Marshall's... end of the 18 holes.
Waisting times every holes.. 4 hours 50 minutes.
Who knows why???
Thanks
Way. Too. Slow
Apparently you don’t have to worry about being on time at this course, and you might be penalized if you are. We were there at 1040 for an 1152 tee time. There was a group booked for 1145, that hadn’t showed up to the starter by 1145. We were told a 2-some was going the 2 of us. It’s 1152, we are waiting for the fairway to clear. The 1145 group shows up and they pull us off the tee. Took 2 hours & 50 minutes to play 9 holes. Left after 13. Won’t be back for a long time
Great Greens
Overall nice course, not very challenging if you can hit the ball straight, the greens are in great shape.
Good to Play Again
Has been close to a year since I played. Surprised to see the greens have shrunk quite a bit in some cases. Makes the course a little more challenging. Course in great shape. Greens a little slow but good.
Hot day
Course needs some work, cart paths and restoration where river has washed out.
Terrible experience
Some sort of tourney so teams stacked shotgun style on holes 7 and 8. We caught them then had wait if 15 mins per hole. Finally skipped them then caught up to 5-some. We just went home without playing 8 holes.
This is becoming common place at Riverside.
Too bad, the staff are nice and the layout is amazing.
SLOW PACE
It took over 3 hrs to play 9 holes. Unbelievable! I ended up leaving after 9..Tee times are every 7 minutes, crazy! Why? Spread your tee times out to 12 minutes..
There were no carts available when I arrived. Had to wait for finishing groups. When we arrived to 1st tee for our tee time, we had to wait for the group ahead of us that were running late. We shouldn't have been penalized for there late arrival..
No marshal on the course to keep things moving along, even if there was one it wouldn't have mattered because of the every 7 minute tee times..Only 1 cart girl, and only saw her once, and she was out of water..
Beware hole #6 a par 5 is cart path only.. Thats where all the issues start..It took 45 minutes to play that hole starting with the wait in the tee box that had 2 groups on it along with my foursome.. Perhaps this hole shouldn't be cart path only?
On a positive note, the golf course was in great shape, greens were very nice.
Not sure if I will return, and if I do it won't be Fri, Sat, or Sun, and I will try to get the first tee time..Manage your course!!
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