Sammons Golf Course

Expectations are important before playing here. Public courts, great price, great staff. Layout and conditions aren’t terrible considering the price. Practice areas are great minus the range being a little hard to read distances. Recommended improvements are restrooms and signs pointing to next hole (specifically back 9).

Stuck behind a group of 5 for 6 holes. They never offered to let me play thru. Course marshal suggested I skip them. So I did on 11. On the 12 tee box they came over yelling at me for skipping them and that I was slowing the pace of play and holding them up. We argued about course etiquette for a few mins and I just picked up my ball and finally left on 12. The course marshal was right there watching the entire argument and never stepped in or said a word.

Pro shop gave me a free round.

Course is in great shape. Pro shop was great. Course marshal and the 5-some in front of me???? All @$$holes.

Played this course this morning as a solo tee time, when I got there nearly two hours early they gave me my cart and I got some range balls. The range has a really wonky shape to it but it's not half bad if you have your own little section( the range balls are cheap too)

the round itself was overall a mid experience at best. When I got to the tee I was greeted with a rather grouchy starter( the course has no martials) who tried to pull me out of my cart and pair me with someone else even tho the general manager inside clearly stated that "it was no big deal for people to have separate carts".

The pace of play was so slow overall which can definitely make or break a round. Due to the short holes and the short gaps of time between start groups there's alot of waiting.

There little to no privacy on any of the holes you could very well find yourself hitting into a completely separate group on a completely separate hole.

And NO WATER to drink on the course which is pretty brutal on a hot day in Texas.

No bev cart either which would be fine if there was water on the course..........

Felt more like casual city golf or maybe even a 9 hole course.

No matter what hole your playing it feels like your hitting into a completely separate hole.

The course overall plays okay but the staff and the other players that I interacted with seemed like a sour community,

The greens however were in outstanding conditions and I think that's a rarity for a lot of the courses for this rate. If your looking for some casual golf cheap golf that also feels like cheap golf this is an amazing spot.

Front nine always goes smooth and I soon as you go to the back nine it gets very cluttered. 18 hole round of golf last time I went took five hours. And that was just with me and a friend. People cut holes and pace of play is not kept up. Doesn’t help the fact if anyone shows up late afternoon, they get thrown on the back nine. Cutting people who have already gone through the front nine. Slowing everything down.

I have been playing this course for decades. Some fairways are so undulating. We will think there’s Florida sinkholes.

Many tee boxes are far from level, making it difficult to get a stance

I have played this course 150-200 times (I live 10 miles from the course). They revamped the greens around four years ago. They aerated the green and sanded them 3-4 weeks ago. They are in GREAT shape.

Nice, somewhat challenging layout.

They have an electronic gating system which is HIGHLY annoying. If you get outside the gate you hear 2-3 beeps and your dead in the water. They need to have 2-3 beeps with a message that says you have 20 seconds to get back inside the gate. As it is...I hate the gate system.

Other than that, it's a great course.

I’ve played here probably 9 times in the last 2 months. Always over booked. It gets stacked up like firewood. They let the school kids just take over the course. Jumping holes and cutting people off. It’s the only golf course around tempu

Maybe the friendliest staff I’ve ever met on a golf course. Course was is in nice condition. Greens were rolling well.

The pace of play was surprisingly good as we were a twosome, but rarely had to wait on the foursome ahead until the ninth hole. The course was in decent shape, but loses points because of the golfers more than the course crew, i.e., divots not replaced nor filled even though each cart has sand, bunkers not raked, etc.

Word of warning for those unfamiliar with the course, as the layout for holes 1, 9, and 18 kind of criss-cross, also the path to 12 requires either going around or through the tee off path on another hole. That said, it's a challenging course and a fun play.

We wondered why they aerated the greens in August.

We assumed they did it in spring as well but if they are doing it now, might be a bigger issue.

Enjoyed the course as usual

Wide open and forgiving for newer golfers. Water is in play on most holes but easily avoidable with proper club selection. Friendly staff. Would recommend.

Except for teeing off 20 minutes late, it ended up only being a 4-hour round. I think they could have done better in pushing full foursomes after the senior event.

But there started called in sick and I guess he is the only one who knows how to do that.

I've played at Sammons a few times now. I love the course and the care that's been given to it. My only drawback is the pace of play. I don't know if it's so bad due to the number of golfers/groups they try to cram in or if the folks in this area just play that slow, but it's hard to get into a good rhythm.

The worst backup is usually on the turn heading into the back 9 because of the folks that stop at the pro shop to get food, drinks or bathroom that take an extended amount of time getting back onto the course. Several times I've had 2 or 3 groups in front of me on the front 9, and when I make the turn for the back 9 it's 5 or 6 groups deep waiting to tee on 10.