Wellen Park Golf & Country Club

Great course..

Great staff

Need to hurry up with restrooms

And eating/drinking building

Very Nice Course in excellent shape. Followed a foursome that was incredibly slow. No one in front of them and they backed up us and everyone behind. Desperately needed a ranger. Our cart died on hole eight and we still waited for the group in front. Replacement cart died on hole 18. Fortunately all carts are being replaced on 5/15/24. Club house is currently a trailer but new club house is scheduled to open May 15, 2024. If you don't have an ultra slow group in front, you will like the course.

Course is in great condition. Straight forward layout. Greens rolled very true

The layout is strange and dangerous at times. Due to the fact that there are so many cookie cutter homes that were playing around and through. The course is well maintained.

Greens are in beautiful condition. Rolled quite quick, and received the ball well. Very nice.

Tee boxes were all excellent.

Fairways are mostly generous and a few dog legs make you think about club selection off the tee - a good variety.

Bunkers all had lots of sand, and played as expected.

The course is set in a construction zone right now - I simply didn’t know this in advance - could have been my oversight. The community looks like it will be nice in the future, just not yet. Lots of machinery running all around you. Trees have yet to be planted anywhere, so it looks very barren and open. I am assuming they will add some. There wasn’t much wind the day we played, but was told it’s usually quite windy.

An oddity: GPS on our two carts weren’t set to the same pin locations so unfortunately, with the large greens, our two carts would Often show the yardage as off by as much as 20 yards! We didn’t notice this until half way through the round. Once we figured that out, we had a better idea of the yardage - but when one cart says it’s 86 yards and the other says it’s 103 yards, it’s difficult to play well.. Told them when we returned the cart and got a “who cares” reply. I guess he isn’t a golfer who understands how important yardage is.

Overall, I think given the circumstances of the construction zone, temporary toilets, no food (yet) low quality carts, etc the fee just wasn’t competitive compared to other courses I played this week. Again this was given the circumstances of the surrounding conditions.

I played Wellen Park last year and was disappointed. This year the course has matured with the fairways and greens being in excellent condition. The designers would have benefited from an additional 20 acres to provide better spacing between some holes and this would have avoided a couple of extreme doglegs. I look forward to my next round here.

Wellen park GC is located in a brand new development on the Venice/North Port border. We were in Sarasota and just zipped down I75 to get there. No problem. Course itself is only about a year old so they are still building course related buildings like the clubhouse and pro shop. Temp facilities were fine. Most of the course is like new and the rough is just coming in. The tee/fairways/greens are all brand new. For the price of $62 each I don’t think you’ll find a better deal. Two groups in front of us. No one behind us at 320 tee time. Some delays in front but very leisurely round of about 3 1/4 hours still. Would highly recommend.

This course is maturing. The rough has grown in and balls aren’t always lost to the water hazards. There are a few doglegs that reflect too small of a footprint for the course. The greens and fairways are in great shape as are the bunkers. We enjoyed a great day of golf!