Cottonwood Golf Club - Ivanhoe Course

Excellent value for the money

The greens were bumpy however

Frost delay pushed out 12:22 tee time out to 1pm. Only got to hole 15 before full darkness at 15. Thought the pace would be faster given the delay. It happens. I’ll be back in the warmer months.

Agree that anyone who writes a bad review of this place has no appreciation of good value. One can walk this championship golf course for under $30 and finish. Unheard of in a place like SD. Greens have been rolling great since the brief closing during C19. Totally disagree with the reviewer stating they r bumpy. I can afford to bring my kids to this place and get in an old school legit round of golf. Cottonwood used to be the Monday qualifier for The Buick which is now The Farmers. Not surpirsed college golf is being played here. Great to hear. The driver can be used on almost every par 4 if you want to as there are essentially no gimmicky holes. Would prefer a great course with average off course amenties to keep the price down all day every day. Thank you Cottonwood. Lucky to have you in SD.

The greens are are always somewhat challenging, all greens are lacking aeration, something management needs to probably address... They've been like this for quite sometime now that I have noticed! Most of your putts will bounce allover the greens. I also noticed on this day that there were some collegiate golf taking place here, and all were walking! I don't know how often this happens here maybe it was just a one time ordeal, but they slow the heck out of the pace for everyone else, and tensions were running a little high amongst golfers! Pace is usually pretty decent, but not on this day! At few times we even got to see as many as 8 to 12 players on the green. MARSHALLLLLL????

Course shows signs of actual maintenance, but there are still many items which need attention.

It was really bad pace if play due to drunken guys and loud speakers on the in front of us.I couldn't funish my round but also no marshalls are managed them.

The entire staff at Cottonwood is friendly & very accommodating!

I don’t understand why people give this course a bad review, what more are you expecting at this price point? , have y’all played some of the other courses around town that are way more $$$ This is a fun course with nice greens, yeah there’s a few crap spots here and there but not really horrible like some places. I’ve been playing here off and on for years, it’s worth it every time

So to start off the staff were very friendly and accommodating. The price for a full 18 plus cart is excellent. The course has a nice layout that is not overly challenging but is great for a nice round. The tee boxes were in decent shape but a bit chewed up and due for a tee move to a new spot. Greens were good but in need of some care as they were getting scared up a bit. Always challenging this time of year is the amount of leaves that littler the course which can bud your ball or complicate your puts, brining a leaf blower could be helpful haha. The carts are getting a bit dated as ours had very loose steering but was manageable. The charge light started flashing on the 13th hole but it held up for the entire round. All in all it is a good course and I would recommend it. Now for the only negative. Because the cost to play is a bit lower there can be groups of newer players which we had in front of us and led to an almost 5 hour round. My group are not the fastest players and I remember struggling but hopefully some ready golf is practiced a bit more.

First off, minus one star to Golf Now for preemptively telling me that C-19 should have bearing on my review almost three years since the scamdemic started. I left at hole nine because the course was not being marshaled the way it should. We couldn’t even play past the group in front of us because of the group in front of them, then a patron wants to mouth off to me when I said how ridiculous the situation was.

The driving range is trashed and way too close to the course. Actually had an old gentleman tell us it used to be the 18th hole. The greens were mediocre at best without every tee box having basic amenities such as ball washers. The staff was friendly which is a huge plus but with pros simply did not outweigh the cons for me. Hopefully anyone reading this will have a better experience than I did.

Still improving. Get a new picture of Cottonwood Ivanhoe course. You are using the old Lakes course picture. Great fries. and people working there.

Based on the recent reviews we knew the course was in poor shape. It was actually a tad better than expected. We played "find actual grass" rules. Pace of play was poor, and not necessarily because the two groups of inexperienced golfers playing scramble style in front if us. On the back 9, they played as an 8-some, even though they had been told to let our twosome play through. No marshall followed up with them. The round took almost 5 hours. The cart wrangler wouldn't give us a cart 30 minutes before our tee time because they needed carts for the two groups in front on us, but then gave carts to groups after us while we were on the putting green. We didn't get a cart until less than 3 minutes before our tee time, which is a stressful way to start a round. The cart wasn't recharged (had just been turned in) so almost died on the 17th, and barely limped home.