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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 | 383 | 2877 | 5784 |
| 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
No Carts
We showed up 15 minutes before our scheduled tee time. We paid, and waited for a cart for over 45 minutes. We finally went back, and got a refund. I kept telling them it was ridiculous for us to wait that long, they kept sending others out ahead of us that were walk ups. Once they gave us a refund, they just apologized. The problem is I drove almost an hour to the course. So their apologies didn’t make it better. I will never go back to this course again.
Hit n miss
Course is in good condition. I have experienced slow play (5hr rounds) but this round finished in 4.25 hours so cant complain. Course is flat so windy day made it difficult to enjoy but can't blame the course for that. No marshall to push play other than that good course.
Fun course
Played surprising well considering hurricane wind.
Perfect Day
A scant wind from the north was a nice change. Marshall paired me with a nice guy and a great 4 some. Price for holiday to too much. $45-47 is OK not 54.
course seems ok but poor pace of play
First the course seemed ok - decent - greens were a bit bumpy but the layout was fair and had some challenging holes - BUT we were plagued by poor pace of play issues all round - first we started of as a twosome - no one else had teee off for at least 15 minutes when we started.. first 3 holes seemed good - a single behind was us was playing fast so we let through - no problem.. then 2 holes later we caught up to the single and VERY SLOW foursome that backed everything up ( the single and our twosome decided to combine at that point)...we basically waited on each hole last 3-4 holes until we reached 9th hole.. was very long waits also..agonizing at times because the players were so bad.. after 9th the single with us had enough because it was taking too long - My twosome wanted to finish the round - we got caught behind a different threesome at 10 who were apparently originally in front of the slow foursome but somewhow they switched order.. This was even worse! - the threesome were so slow, poor players and so deliberate that we waited 15-20 minutes for next 3 holes to try and play - the very slow fourseome actually got 1-2 holes ahead of these guys! it was almost too much to bear - on a par 3 I believe 13 or 14 we decided to play forward and passsed the threesome - it finally seemed to open up - we quickly caught the slow foursome but to make matters worse on 17 somehow a DIFFERENT Threesome suddenly jumped in front of us and inexplicably didnt care that we were literally approaching the the 17th tee when they teed off! we called the clubhouse and complained but they didnt care..just made for a miserable round that could have been so much better - this is where a marshall can make such a difference.. I wont come back.
Windy after a rainstorm
Course in nice shape in general for March. Greens are amazing for March. How much time does it take to pull the weeds out of the center of the greens? Still very nice. There were 2 5-somes on the course. The first group was great and encouraged us to play through without incident and the second group was not. The round stalled at the 14th and took too long to finish. Really you permit 5 some?
Great layout... sub par conditions
Great staff. Course could be top course if they would hire greenskeeper or spend $ to bring turf up to par... excuse pun. They just never have made leap to great... so just average
course has no easy holes
Loved the layout,the par 5's will test you.You must hit a good tee shot to have a chance to birdie or par them.Put this course on your list to play
The course is in great shape. It is challenging. The staff and the cart girl- Mary at incredibly friendly.
Good shape for winter
Played on a Friday afternoon and course was in good shape for this time of year. Staff was very courteous and helpful. Not much you can do this time of year, but all of the bunkers were maintained and greens were as good as could be expected.
Layout
Love the Layout, challenges are there but not too crazy difficult for a once a month golfer
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