Wellen Park Golf & Country Club

What can I say about almost perfection. Wellen Park is always a challenge. The greens roll fast and true. The fairways are green and your balls is usually in a great lie. The staff is friendly and always willing to answer your questions if it’s your first time playing the course. Yes it’s surrounded by construction but I don’t typically play in the construction areas. From Kristina the teaching pro to Kelly the cart attendant this is the place to play. We will be returning all summer for sure.

On the There was 2 or3 groups on every tee box. Second nine the group in front of us had a hole open. Could only finish 16 holes before it was too dark. If they charge for 18 Wellen should have rangers to maintain a good pace of play.

The management knew the late tee time start for weeks as we heard from many players but never shared with golfers.

Greens were just aireted, never shared from management. Tee'd off 32 minutes late. No communication or apologies from anyone.

Everything is good to excellent. Off course is not complete.

The fastest greens in the Sarasota and Venice area. The course was in very good shape and the pace of play was great.

Wellen Park has a decent layout. We were given a golf cart that nearly broke down on the 1st fairway. I called the Clubhouse and there was a replacement brought to us before we teed off on the 2nd hole. . The pace of play was good. We finished our round in about 4 hours. The Beverage cart woman Bethany was outstanding. She was very attentive. We saw her multiple times through out the round.

The subdivision surrounding the golf course is under construction. The Clubhouse is a trailer. There are Porto potties on the course because the permanent ones are not completed yet. My one complaint is $109+ green fees is over priced. I would only play this course again if the price dropped below $70 which is comparable to most other public courses in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. In summary, nice track, great staff but overpriced.

I consider myself lucky to have paid a reduced fee since we played in the afternoon because this course is certainly not worth more than the $60 we paid for it. Many times we had to backtrack to the Teebox after finishing on the green. One particular horseshoe par-5 is somewhat of a clown hole. What stands out the most is the depressing housing edition into which this course was carved. I would strongly suspect that the housing edition was a greater priority to the developer than the golf course. All homes and apartments are way too close to the course and are also all painted in a depressing gray tone. At this point, many homes and apartments were still unoccupied, but I already fear for the safety of the occupants considering the proximity to the Teeboxes particularly on the horseshoe par five. On a side note, this was also the opinion of the couple that we played with that day.

Rained out but have played there many times, great course, very friendly staff

Wellen is a great place for high handicappers, firm fairways lots of role. Staff are fantastic , Kelly is amazing, Starter Tom from Macomb big thx! All staff are friendly, welcoming! From top to bottom never been treated better anywhere at every turn. Met Bill, David, always had a great experience meeting players here.

Once this course is fully operational I’m curious how what I feel are design issues will affect pace of play and some safety here. When you look at all the land in the Wellen project having tee boxes like #6 &11, a driving range downwind hitting into #9 tees, just don’t make sense to me.

And #16 is a design afterthought unsafe imo and guaranteed to slow play.

I hear they’re redesigning Sarasota Natl built by the same designer as Wellen, why wait, do it now while you still have options.