Sammons Golf Course

The flow of the course is very difficult to follow with NO signs to direct you. Cart path crossed through other holes point of aim. Greens were in bad shape (off season) fairways were dead grass (off season). Carts were geo-tracked and kept going dead when you were in a restricted area even when you were still on the cart path.

Yardage not very well marked. No stakes in the fairway for 200/150/100 markers. Only seen a few markers at all,

Tee box markers were little pieces of logs about 3” diameter and hard to tell what color they were. Course gets heavy play and with the holes so close together the pace of play is SLOW!

Par 3 #17 was nice over the water,

The overall condition of the course was good, especially for a municipal course. We teed off at 3:00 pm. Play was extremely slow. All carts have GPS but the course is cart path only. The carts will shut down if you venture 10 yards off the cart path. It would have been quicker to walk. Staff removed the flags from the greens at 5:40 pm then instructed us that we have to turn our carts in by 5:45. There was still an hour of daylight left. This was frustrating as we only got to play 11 holes (we finally skipped ahead of the group in front of us). Doubt we will go back and definitely can’t recommend the course for afternoon tee times.

I have not played this course in years. My Daughter needed to play this course prior to her tournament, that is the only reason I stayed.

Good - Greens rolled true and were receptive. They had a few none plugs growing up, but nothing to worry about.

Bad - Tee boxes had sticks for tee markers and they were not on boxes. The fairways are rutted and they need attention.

Ugly - STAFF - if I had not prepaid and my daughter needed to play, I would have left. They double-booked two tee times, the pro-shop attendant was in a bad mood and was an unpleasant person to talk to. The grill was closed and they had no drink cart.

Course marking - YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE NEXT HOLE IS... simple signs would have made it easier... but signage on the course is non-existant.

The carts had a nice display system on them and had geofences, THEY DID NOT ANNOUNCE which holes were cart path only, there were no signs on the course and the starter did not tell us which holes were cart path only. I had to push a cart off of a fairway because it would not move.

This course can be great... but right now... it is nowhere near a pleasant place to play.

I have played Sammons many times and 2/22 was by far the worst experience I have ever had at this course. I had a 10:50am tee time which I arrived at 10:40 and was at the first tee in time. As I was driving up there was a group of 4 already on the tee. A group of 4 behind them and another group of 4 behind them. Then it was me. I waited 15 minutes before asking the starter if I could just go off the back since I was a single and no one was on 9 or 10. She promptly said no, that I would have to wait. I waited another 10 minutes and I looked behind me and 2 more groups of 2 showed up waiting. It was 11:15 at this point and still have 2 groups of 4 infront of me. I returned to the club house and got a refund. The guy in the club house said they were really busy. I never saw anyone on 9 or 10 the entire time I was there. I dont run the course so I just asked for a refund and left. Love the course because I live in Temple, but it has seriously gone down hill lately. Hope someone actually reads this from sammons and realizes there needs to be a change. Also sally or whatever her name is that is the normal starter could be alittle nicer and smoke alittle less. I know its public but not everyone wants to smell smoke while waiting.

One thing that would be pretty easy and low cost but provide a massive improvement is to improve the tee box markers. I’ve only played here twice and it’s very confusing and easy to get lost and many of the tee box markers have paint that has warn away so you often cannot tell which tee box it is. It feels like they assume everyone that plays there is a regular.

The course conditions were less than desirable as had a lot of difficult lies on hard dirt with no grass...even in fairways.

Also, i will not play this course again due to the golf cart situation of cutting off and us having to push it. Even while on the cart path next to the green. It seemed to be way out of calibration to the actual course.

This has been going on for a long time. I wish the carts gave you some warning before just dying on the side of a hill. But this cart was the worst one yet.

I am done with this course.

We played on a day that was still foggy at noon. Course was in good shape. Since we were playing the course for the first time, it would have been nice to have more signage to show which way you were going. Thank good for there GPS on the carts

Heard such rave reviews of the course from several. Bit after play g very disappointed. Course layout was confusing and it wasn’t in good shape.

They seem to cram people back to back so play was brutally slow.

They need to mark course with directions. Thankfully I was paired with someone who knew the course.

This was my first time playing Sammons, and I was not impressed. It’s a fun course and I like the layout. It was generally well-kept, and had some fun holes. That being said, the scheduling was way too close together. When we arrived on time, we has to wait behind two parties at the first tee box. We were a party of two, and there were two single players booked after us, and we ended up joining to be a 4-some, and there were still people rushing us from behind. I felt like I had no time to look for my balls, even when they were in the fairway or only barely out of bounds, and ended up dropping a new ball on several holes. I’m not an expert golfer, but I’m not slow either; I have played many courses before, but I have never felt so rushed as I did at Sammons. Also, the tee off areas were super poorly marked. If it weren’t for the guy who joined our party and knew the course, we would have been completely lost.

I thought I'd be able to play a quick 18 holes since it was a Tuesday but I later found out that Tuesdays and Thursdays are slotted for senior tournaments. Other than the slow play and maintenance guys working directly in front of a tee box, it was a good outing.

Sammons is a nice layout with a variety of holes ranging from wide-open links style to tight, wood lined fairways. Water can come into play on 14 holes with streams and a large lake . Wind is usually a major factor on the front nine. Course conditions seem to improve steadily over the past several years as the new greens grass matures. Hopefully it will escape the damages from another Snowmageddon like 2021. The staff is friendly and work hard to make sure you enjoy your time.