Southwyck Golf Club
About
Southwyck is new and improved after re-opening in the summer of 2002 with new fairways, tees, and greens. This links-style track features prominent bunkering, water in play on 14 holes, and is known for its difficult back nine.
Southwyck first opened in 1988 on the prairie lands east of downtown Houston-at the time, it was the only true links-style track in the area. Like the Scottish courses, this track is susceptible to the wind, and Kavanaugh did a nice job of confusing golfers off the tee, as it's difficult to determine exactly where you want to hit the shot. Depth perception is difficult, and local knowledge is helpful.
The course once served as the home course for the famous University of Houston golf team, and it served them well with its difficulty. Large mounding prevents level lies, and water comes into play on 13 holes. Tall native grasses line the fairway and require desperate hacks into the fairway when errant shots become buried in the heather.
No. 5 is a monster par 3 at 250 yards, but the par 3 No. 11 might be more difficult because of the long carry of a ravine down to the green 212 yards away. No. 3 might be the toughest in Houston. It rolls 467 yards into the wind with fairway bunkers lining the right side.
Getting there : From Hwy. 288 south find the Hwy. 518/Pearland exit. Turn left and look for the Silver Lake Subdivision. Take that road to the course.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 72 | 6914 yards | 73.2 | 127 |
| Gold | 72 | 6394 yards | 70.6 | 118 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 6394 yards | 76.7 | 134 |
| Black | 72 | 5867 yards | 68.4 | 115 |
| Black (W) | 72 | 5867 yards | 75.1 | 125 |
| White | 72 | 5145 yards | 66.2 | 112 |
| White (W) | 72 | 5145 yards | 70.5 | 120 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green M: 73.2/127 | 411 | 538 | 470 | 405 | 249 | 306 | 157 | 509 | 465 | 3510 | 423 | 209 | 493 | 434 | 510 | 329 | 379 | 195 | 432 | 3404 | 6914 |
| Gold M: 70.6/118 W: 76.7/134 | 400 | 501 | 453 | 387 | 225 | 295 | 149 | 485 | 395 | 3290 | 372 | 181 | 474 | 401 | 474 | 288 | 350 | 165 | 399 | 3104 | 6394 |
| Black M: 68.4/115 W: 75.1/125 | 375 | 457 | 425 | 336 | 193 | 276 | 145 | 464 | 374 | 3045 | 339 | 162 | 425 | 347 | 457 | 254 | 329 | 135 | 374 | 2822 | 5867 |
| Grey M: 66.2/112 W: 70.5/120 | 333 | 422 | 369 | 284 | 171 | 225 | 119 | 444 | 311 | 2678 | 306 | 103 | 371 | 336 | 430 | 206 | 280 | 111 | 324 | 2467 | 5145 |
| Handicap | 11 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 2 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 9 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 8 |
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No 7 green Photo submitted by u000008047504 on 04/17/2019
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Green Hole 1 05/14/16 Photo submitted by garbergr on 05/19/2016
Course conditions on the front nine are improving,buttrmains very bumpy. Grounds on front nine need to be levelled via grading etc
Good course. Valued +++ for the money.. I will continetoplay it. Hopefully within the next month or two, the course will be grated.
No Title
The greens have too much poa annual weeds. I also saw some damage on several under repair. The fairways and rough had too many dallisgrasses. The fairways need to be smoother. Right now it's a teeth cracking, spine jolting moon ride over them in a cart. Some of the players have no respect for course too. They ride their carts right up to the greens.
Fun and easy course
This is a great course if you are a new player and looking to play for cheap! Very wide fairways and kind staff!
Fairways are rougher than my ex wife’s heart
Green are pretty smooth and fast.
The drought really did a number on the fairways. Dang near threw my back out just driving across The staff was
Super friendly!
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We appreciate your feedback regarding the smooth and fast greens, but we apologize for the condition of the fairways due to the drought. We're glad to hear that our staff was super friendly and we hope to provide an even better experience on your next visit. Thank you again.
Needs TLC.
This course has much promise and has been very nice in the past. Just a little extra fertilizer and mowing could make it very playable. 150 yardage poles to mark distance and directions could be done for little or no money. Owners don't seem to put anything into it. That is a shame because it could be nice.
Hi, uBGTS1372BG! Thank you so much for leaving us with your feedback. We value our customer experience, so your review is important to us. We will make note and we hope to see you back at Southwyck Golf Club!
Great Layout
1st 3 holes, fairways were patchy. Then it got a lot better.
u314164778217, thank you for your kind words! We hope to see you again at the course very soon for another 5-star experience. Thanks for choosing Southwyck Golf Club.
Fairways were like driving the off road baja.
Greens not consistent, realistically they should have been cart path only due to standing water and very wet
We apologize for the poor condition of the fairways and the inconsistent greens. We appreciate your feedback and will make efforts to address these issues. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review.
Needs a lot of fairway work
The fairways on the front nine were in really bad shape. Not sure what happened, but they were even hard to drive a cart on they were so bumpy. Prior rain made the course very wet and probably should have had some cartpath only holes. No marshal so the pace of play was very slow due to a foursome ahead being clueless. This was a very good course a few years back, but has gone way downhill.
We appreciate your feedback regarding the condition of the fairways on the front nine. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and we will strive to improve our course conditions. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Very disappointing Fairways!
I really like the layout of the holes of this course and have been playing it for over 20 years. It is so sad to see that the Fairways have deteriorated so badly.
There is the imadequate grass and driving the bouncing golf carts to the next shot can require needing a chiropractor once you get there!
The green fees are very and in past years, it has been an enjoyable course to play. As much as I like going there, I will probably not be until I hear some word that somebody’s throwing some dirt in the crevices And filling up all the uncomfortable and unnecessary gaps.
I hope this message gets to the owners of the course and that they will do something at least try to restore this old lady back to her original beauty!
Hi, Leonnelkin. We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 5-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing Southwyck Golf Club.
Same old song and dance
I’m a local resident so I like to check the reviews every so often to see if anything has changed/improved. I won’t play the course b/c of how terrible it is but I do hold onto the pipe dream that someday things might improve. But the reviews are the same, slow pace, horrific fairways on the front, mostly terrible greens, lack of consistent mowing of the rough, and last but not least, no water stations. They took out the water during the pandemic and never brought it back. Still have never heard an explanation. People consistently complain about the lack of water but I’ve never seen one single mention of it when the course responds to the reviews. Seriously, name one other course that doesn’t provide water. The worst part about there being basically no improvement on any of the issues the reviews raise is that the course responds with the same lip service: we strive for a 5 star experience, we’re working to improve the fairways and greens, we acknowledge the slow pace. I see the course every day from many different spots so trust me, they’re making ZERO attempt to do anything they claim in their responses. It’s like they think they can simply provide a nice apology response and that makes it all better. Very sad to see a gem of a layout be completely run into the ground.
Too bad
This course was one of my favorites but it ran down big time. The bunkers were eliminated and fairway grass neglected; very bumpy to drive on fairways almost dangerous. This course is 1 step up from a driving range! TOO BAD!
Been terrible for years
I live on Southwyck and haven't played it years. It's been really sad to see the course run into the ground in the past 5 yrs. Before the pandemic they removed all bunkers and claimed it was to make the course more playable when everyone knew it was b/c they didn't want to maintain them. During the pandemic they took out all the water coolers and never brought them back. No explanation. Name another course that doesn't provide water! The layout is great but the fairways and greens are mostly terrible. They don't water. Every other course went through the same drought but Clear Creek and Country Place don't have 4 inch cracks in their fairways. I've been reading these consistently bad reviews since the pandemic and the mgmt responses have been the same for years. They just apologize for the conditions and say that they strive for a 5 star experience but yet nothing changes. I wish they could sell it to someone who will put some money into it. Just apologizing and doing nothing just makes it worse. My son plays golf for one of the local high schools and the team considers southwyck a joke and they never play it. All we can do as locals is continue to leave poor reviews and hope something changes.
Hello, AKelley10. Thank you for visiting us at Southwyck Golf Club. We appreciate your 4-star rating and review. We hope you join us for another round soon.