La Quinta at Quail Valley Golf Course

Showed up for my 12:07 tee time on LaQuinta. Excited to play golf the weather was great nothing can go wrong so I thought. Walked in the clubhouse and was a cluster very unorganized.

The first problem was there is no golf carts. This has been ongoing problem I expected that. But what I was told next I didn't expect. The employee working the desk said if you want to use a cart today it will be 1.5 hour wait. Then he went on to say you can walk but you have to go get in line at the tee box.

Again I have a tee time. And to make it even worse they were sending all players to LaQuinta for some reason they closed Eldorado. My group decided to walk and get our Sunday round in but it wasn't a good experience. LaQuinta was backed up as you would expect. Waiting on ever tee box to hit. Just not a good experience, not what I expected. I play at Quail Valley very often and really love the facility and the courses. They have a few problems they need to fix especially the golf cart issue. A course with this much prestige can do better.

The young man who checked me in was very friendly even though y’all were short on carts.

It was a little wet, for some reason the LaQuinta course does not drain as well as the Eldorado. It was cart path only while Eldorado was not which slowed play but overall good time

Golf course should have been closed. All 18 holes were water logged due to poor drainage. Even the cart paths had patches of water. The restrooms need rehabilitation. The greens were okay but the bunkers had hard soil. The entire drainage system needs to be looked into.

The LaQuinta side doesn’t drain well at all after rains. Majority of the holes will have puddles of water. They have new ball washers with no water in them and no towel to dry the balls off. No big deal about having no towel to dry the balls, but at least put some water in the washers. The cart paths need to be totally renovated. And bunkers filled with a better choice of sand would be nice. Other than what was mentioned above, it’s a good facility with a lot of potential for greatness. Great course layout, and decent greens!

I'm starting to play golf and this is my third time playing. This course was more challenging for me but it was great. Nice golf carts with GPS systems and Bluetooth.

I dont normally throw out reviews but this course needs one.

Mr. Clark at checkin was great and very friendly. Range & chipping green were shut down for overseeding no biggie. The range has never been great(mats).

What ticked us off was as we walked up to grab a cart we were scolded heavily by an older gentleman who’s first words to us were”hey what do you think your doing” we told him we had a tee time to which he stated the carts were off limits and i would have to walk over to cart barn to ask for a cart. Walked in and Mr james was nice but upset obviously at something. We got a cart and got to first tee tailed closely by another gentleman saying we couldnt use the cart we were given and we would have to take this ole busted cart. The cart sputtered, rattled, had no windshield(it sprinkled most of the round) and overall needed to he retired. We were then asked to tee off 30 minutes early because they had a tournament that was overbooked and they needed to get people out of the way.

Calming ourselves down we took off on 1 and were met with mediocre course conditions to say the least. The maintenance crew was mowing the fairways and insisted on sitting right in the middle flashing lights at us to hit. The bunkers had more mud then sand on most and the greens had patches where repairs were made that looked horrible.

Overall i wouldnt play the course again anytime soon. To many courses in Houston for the hassle we were dealt and the course shape.

Normally pace of play not a problem. But 2 groups in front of us were very slow and playing wrong tees didn’t help. As well as four guys playing with 2 sets of clubs and not knowing course etiquette. Marshals should’ve recognized this and made adjustments. At least they lets us pass them at the turn so we could finish

Course is good,but there was a group of drunks 7 of them acting like they owned the course,they sat for about 20 minutes at the 1st tee box,not caring about other players,no marshall nothing. Course is challenging but they need to keep up with players.