La Quinta at Quail Valley Golf Course

Course is in great shape. The layout is similar to the old layout but it is much more challenging. Quite a few well played fairway bunkers make tee shots and fairways much tighter. If you haven’t made it out to check out the new design, you should book a tee time.

This course has such potential to be a great course, if only they had better management. This is one of the worst managed courses in the Houston area. Two weeks before this round we played the other side, El Dorado, and one of the carts died at the turn. It was 100 degrees outside and there was no one available to take a call and get a new cart out to our group. When you call the club house it goes to a third party answering service who just said the clubhouse was closed and they had no way to reach anyone, even though the cart barn had plenty of staff and what we needed was a golf cart. This week, we showed up for our 3:50pm tee time only to have a large group of five (which also had a small child trying to learn how to play) jump ahead because they were late for their 3:20pm tee time. We were stuck at the first tee with a late group and the tee time in front of us all on the first tee together. If they only had an actual Marshall instead of just an old man on a golf cart, this could have been avoided. We ended up switching and playing El Dorado instead because we would not finish otherwise. This place is an absolute clown show and I would only recommend the course itself, but would not hold your breath for competent staff. Avoid if possible until they change management, the current staff is running this place into the ground.

La Quinta is a great remodeled course with brand new gps/bluetooth carts. Looking forward to playing the course again.

This is my third time playing this course, i must say that i am very pleased with the renovation that was done, i will be playing there again for sure, my only complaint was that the cart paths were flooded, and not knowing how deep the water was knowing i had to drive through it.

The course had been under renovation for more than a year. Considering that, I was surprised it was cart path only (no warning) and a lot of areas still under repair.

I will only play this course again later !! Chart Path , Is brutal in the heat overall great course 4 Star

Everything is new. Cart paths, fairways, greens hazards, it's all new. Only open on the weekends for now and it's cart path only.

First time playing the La Quinta course on 8/7 and it's a great looking course with a lot of potential as it matures. For the price and location, I'd be happy to return..there is a but...

Pros:

1. Lots of water and sand in well thought out places to test all levels of player

2. Great value for money - I didn't feel like my wallet had been abused at all

3. Brand new buggies with GPS, yardage and score tracking functionality - absolutely first class (almost perfect)

4. Mostly friendly staff - the guys in the pro shop and working the buggies were super helpful.

Cons:

1. Course is awaiting official sign off of yardage so hasn't got printed scorecards, only a sheet of paper with current yardages. No big deal as the official ones will be done in the coming weeks and the buggy has a cool scorecard feature

2. Greens were firm and a little slow - need more watering to make them more receptive.

3. This is the main BUT...there was some very unnecessary Game Starter rudeness.

When our group checked in with the starter on the first tee, there was ZERO mention of needing to stick to cart paths - ZERO/NOTHING SAID AT ALL to any of our group. Nor was this mentioned when checking in with the pro shop.

After teeing off and heading down the cart path to play our second shots, there was no one ahead of us so we made an assumption it may be 90 degrees rule with it being a new course. So we followed the path, turned 90 degrees and drove to our balls to hit our approach shots...only to look back and to see the starter driving towards us like a psychopath waving arms and calling us over.

He then began to rant and rage at us for not following rules that hadn't been communicated to us that could have easily been printed on the paper scorecard or put signs on the first tee to raise awareness. He then threatened that this was our only warning and if we moved off the cart path again we'd be removed from the course.

This course had just re-opened to the public that day so more effort should be made to ensure all players know this rule.

The starter didn't ruin the day but definitely didn't make a great first impression and should get some guidance on more effective communication skills.

We will likely come back, and hope this feedback is appreciated and used to better communication with other future players.