Forest Creek Golf Club

Rained out, but still can’t get a rain check because I booked through GolfNow. This review is more for GolfNow than Forest Creek.

The old man working at the club house desk was the most rude and borderline racist person I’ve ever met at a golf course before. Slammed the cart keys in front of my face and threw the receipt at me. The course was good and if it wasn’t for him I would definitely return, but just because of him I will never go back nor recommend to anyone. Bummer because I’ve been looking for a course to get a membership at and I would choose this one if it wasn’t for the terribly unfriendly staff. Management needs to get rid of him or something because that ruined my whole round. Never in my life have a felt so disrespected.

Have always enjoyed the layout and test of FCGC. While the 90 degree turns require extra course management, the clear out of some trees in 2023 allow for better sight lines. Greens are coming back from a winter disease and good to see the staff hard at work to better them. Tough but fair test of golf with Forest lined fairways & creeks to cross.

Course was in good shape except the greens were mostly very patchy and in some areas there was no grass. Other greens had large sodded areas making chipping and putting only possible by moving the ball. If the greens can Make a comeback the course will be in nice shape.

Do yourself a favor and play elsewhere. The greens are completely gone. Cannot believe they are charging what they are for this course currently. Shame cause it used to be one of my favs.

Really liked the layout. Greens are hurting BUT management is trying to correct the situation. Everything else made for a good day.

Booked a tee time a week in advance like I usually do just to find out course is closed for maintenance. No notification was given and tee times were still available for this day on golf now. Drove over an hour to play and was told pretty rudely I was SOL. Course told me they were unable to offer any refund for money paid so I’m out the booking fees I paid. Out of principle this is an awful way to do business and I won’t be going back to this course.

Lots of greens under maintenance, lots of sod ripped up. Hole 16 closed. Hole 3, par 5, turned into two different holes. One is a par 3, the other par 4. You still play 18 holes but its not the same Forest Creek.

Fun course. I can tell this place used to be amazing in its early years. Fun, challenging layout. Back 9 definitely plays longer and harder than the front, so get your birdies early. Alot of doglegs, and a couple of holes where you can't hit driver because of the fairway runout. Fairways were good. The sides had a couple bare spots. Front nine greens were pretty decent, but the back are having some trouble, but most are puttable, except for 1, which was pretty brutal. Tee boxes were ok. I can't fraction the stars, but condition would be more like a 3.6. And considering Austin courses right now, 3.6 is pretty good. Find a weekday to go play Forest Creek, because it's not worth what they're asking for on the weekends.

I've been playing Forest Creek for 25+ years and think yesterday is the worst condition I have ever seen the course (other than the ice storm a couple of years ago). To be clear, I saw the grounds crew all over the place. . . they are very obviously trying to address the problems but they have major issues. Should be paying about $25 to play right now. My favorite track in Central Texas. Really hoping they can recover but really irritated that they are not adjusting the pricing to reflect. Pace of play was not great either.

For the record, I was a member at Forest Creek for 10+ years. It’s my favorite course in Central TX. A few years back, they changed management companies and the greens went to heII. They closed the course for almost a year & reestablished the greens and renovated the course. It was in pristine condition in 2022. Unfortunately, the greens have gone to heII, again! And to make matters worse, the rates have gone up.. this was the first time I played the course in 6 months, it will probably be another 6 months before I go back. So much potential wasted. City of Round Rock needs to make some drastic changes.

Played for the first time with my sons. We loved it. Staff was courteous, friendly and efficient. It was a busy Saturday, but we teed off exactly on time and finished in 4-1/2 hours. Never waited to hit a shot. Some greens were a little rough but overall the course was in good shape. Nice variety of hole layouts and challenges. We will play it again.

Always enjoy the layout presented at Forest Creek, was dissapointed to see the greens in such poor shape. IN hte past FC has painted the greens during winter and not sure if that is killing the grass but in a lot of areas it was just now painted dirt or sandy dirt/grass. The clear out and grass cutting done in "rough" areas was a welcomed update.

Good fairways and tee boxes but greens were in really bad shape. Many had significant dead spots, thin grass and lots of dirt for surface. Quality of the greens has really declined.