DeBell Golf Club

I play golf once a week at this course, so it's nice that it's not crowded. It's short, but it's not easy because the fairway is narrow, and it's quite a fun course... It's such a beautiful golf course...

The 10th hole was closed. First few holes on front nine always screws me up. It’s too tight for me. But all else is fine

Played DeBell for the the third time, first time I thought I was fun and had some interesting shots, and a good, but not great collection of “target golf” style of holes. The front 9 demands crisp irons shots and shaping both ways to score, while the back 9 opens up with more elevation changes as asks for long straight drives off the tee, with accurate approach shots.

The collection of Par 5s are fun and gettable, the par fours are forgettable and the par threes (minus #7) either ask for a 180 - 220 yard tee shot, or an aggressive draw shot around a mountian-side, onto a blind green. They almost seem to be there to add overall yardage to the course.

Teed off early this morning and the playing condition were rough at best. Standing water we’re in most bunkers and felt like you could build a sand castle in them, which were littered with small rocks. Standing water was everywhere, and the turf was either extreme soggy or hard pan. It felt like playing winter golf.

I’m aware and appreciate that the grounds crew is doing its best with the poor irrigation, and I see that they’re working on getting new irrigation in the ground on the back 9, but this place could go from oaky, to borderline great with a proper renovation. Expansion of the Green complexes, re-designing the par 3s to be more interesting, rebuilding the bunkers with sand that doesn’t have marble sized rocks, and getting the irrigation up to snuff would change the course dramatically.

If you want to get your iron play down, great course. You might lose a ball or two but well worth the drive and experience.

Their parking lot gets crowded on busy days and pace of play is slow on weekends. Weekday play is great!

Course under heavy renovation, many employees on the fairways and around the greens. Better have confidence in your shot to avoid them because they don’t move for the players. Stood at several tee boxes hoping they would but ended up playing around them. The carts were awful, tee time before 730am should be at least kinda clean and fully charge batteries but no such luck. One cart died on 10th so we swapped it and second cart died on 15 and limped the last few holes with some pushes from the replacement cart. Issues that can be fixed though, great course when it’s not being worked on. Will recommend it again in a few years when they finally finish the construction

Quit after 14 holes - 5.5 hours - easily would have been a 6.5 hour round if hadn’t bailed.

Great course… But five par three holes on an 18 whole course leaves you feeling a little bit unsatisfied