Forest Creek GC
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4.4
926 Reviews (926)
5 Stars
479
4 Stars
301
3 Stars
83
2 Stars
32
1 Stars
31
Conditions
4.1
Value
4.2
Layout
4.5
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.2
90.3%
Recommend this course
833 out of 926 reviews
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4.0
31 Reviews (31)
5 Stars
14
4 Stars
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1
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.7
Layout
4.2
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.5
74.2%
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23 out of 31 reviews
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4.3
65 Reviews (65)
5 Stars
38
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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Conditions
4.1
Value
4.1
Layout
4.5
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.3
StaffFriendliness
4.7
87.7%
Recommend this course
57 out of 65 reviews
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Course Highlights
Forest Creek's fairways and greens are in exceptional shape, with speeds that consistently impress returning players. The welcoming staff and value-added package including range balls, food, and drinks make every round worthwhile.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 7147 yards
Slope 139
Rating 74.8

Designed by Dick Phelps, Forest Creek Golf Club has been named "Best Public Golf Course in Central Texas" by Golf Digest as well as "Golf Club of the Year" by Club Corporation of America. Phelps' design features plush, narrow fairways, and its namesake Forest Creek that comes into play on 11 holes. Many of the holes dogleg, and its most difficult holes are the long par 4s. These holes are especially evident on the back nine, with holes 10, 15, and 18 all playing well over 400 yards. The 15th is the most difficult, playing a bogey-welcoming, par 5-like 472 yards.

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Course Details

Year Built 1990
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Dick Phelps (1990) Colligan Golf Design (2018)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Tifdwarf Grass

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill

Available Facilities

Clubhouse

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  • Golf Advisor: Top Courses in Texas (2023 #23) (2022 #14)
  • Golf Advisor: Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses (2018 #8)
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Reviews

4.4
926 Reviews (926)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 11
Course Challenges Include:
Narrow Fairways 25
Bunkers 24
Forced Carries 16
This course/club is great for:
Locals 25
Advanced Golfers 19
A Weekend Splurge 8
This Course's Location is:
In the 'Burbs 19
Convenient to the City 16
Worth the Drive 16

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Reviews 2
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I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played

Forest Creek@ Round Rock, Texas

Course in pretty good shape overall.. Greens coming back from too much rain in Spring time and Hurricane Harvey. Has some spots on greens that are fungus related . But staff is addressing those issues . In several weeks the greens will look and roll real well.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Horrible Greens and Bunkers

Course is in rough shape! Greens are a horrible mess. Bunkers are mud pits. It makes for a bad experience no matter how nice they are in the clubhouse. They need to shutdown and overhaul. Don't play here

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 32
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

#badroundofgolf

Course was in very poor condition. Pro shop gave free sleeve of balls to try and make up for condition of most of the greens. Pace of play was terrible I understand it was a holiday weekend , but a course Marshal passed our group twice but did NOTHING about the group in front of us. Eventually had to call the pro shop to try and get situation resolved. It took nearly 6 hours to play round of golf. Will definitely not return

JH Copeland

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Course is rough right now

Just an FYI, the course is pretty rough. With recent rains the fairways are still recovering but the greens are in really bad shape. They are dying along the edges and on some there are pretty big bare spots in the middle. I'd give this course at least a few months to get back into shape and go for other courses in the area till the greens recover and they get the fairways back in order.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Greens were terrible

We had seen that there had been "advisories" on this course for the last three to five weeks and read that the greens were still in recovery - but had we known the actual condition of the greens we wouldn't have played there,

Let's just say that they should have left the advisory warning up and going for a couple more weeks at least!

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

really well

the course is in the best condition but the greens are in bad shape but that it the price is amazing and the fairways and tee boxes are in great shape

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Greens are in need of serious repairs and the pace was very slow, but we still had a great time and for the price on a Saturday morning, it cannot be beat in this area.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course description

Fairways and tee boxes great had 4 temporary greens and some others were rough

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Greens in Sad Shape

With the course in good shape generally, it is hard to understand how the greens got so bad. Most were un-puttable due to the rough bare spots. Four holes had temporary greens that putted almost as well as the regular greens. For a competitive round, you would have to use the "two putt rule". The layout is a little quirky and hard to visualize the first time around. $15 would have been a fair price for the round.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Green cobdition

Would like to have known that the greens were under repair before I made my tee time. Very rough green conditions

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens were extremely poor and will take a while to come back.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Normally great, but greens are in awful shape right now...

I normally love playing this course but right now the greens are just in awful shape. We were made aware of this and the price reflects the conditions but I simply can not recommend this course at this time. Give it another month or so and I'm sure the greens will be back to playable shape and it'll go back to being one of my favorite courses to play.

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Cold weather
Used cart

Ist Time at Forest Creek

We enjoyed playing this course, but had to stop at 14, because it began to rain. We would like to come back and play.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Terrible greens

I have played this course at least 50 times and this was the absolute worst. The fairways were in good shape as usual but the greens are dead and littered with poa annua. 13 of the 18 greens were not playable and hole 7 had a 20 ft diameter temporary green. If the green fee was 10 bucks I wouldn't complain but through golf now it was 40 bucks. Pro said they will probably close the course after summer and rebuild them all. There was a flag on golfnow saying the greens were recovering from maintenance which I took to mean they had been recently aerated. Not the case, don't waste your money unless you just want to work on tee shots and irons.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Disappointing

Greens are unbelievably bad and will have to be completely re done. One temp green. Worst I've seen in my 1000+ rounds of golf. Gonna be at least 24 months before I talk myself into going here again. Shame bc it's a great layout.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 20
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Winter conditions

Windy and cool day to play. Course was not in the condition I have seen in the past as grass is going dormant and greens were bumpy.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 13
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Quality fall golf at Forest Creek

Played Sunday afternoon as a 4-some. Started at 1:15 so we could finish before dark with the recent time change. Fairways and tee boxes in great shape for the most part. Greens were cut low and although there are coloration differences they are rolling smoothly and pretty consistent on speed. Make sure you don't get above the hole because the downhill putts are pretty quick. We played in 4 hrs 10 minutes, which on a Sunday afternoon is pretty good. You may only hit driver 4 or 5 times out here, it is a shot makers course and pay attention to the distances you need off the tees. Always a challenging layout and take plenty of golf balls because there are lots of trees and creeks that are in play!

The club house has your essential golf gear and the 19th hole has what you need to survive; reasonably priced drinks, hot dogs, sausage wraps... but don't expect on gourmet dining!

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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