Southland Golf & Country Club

Tuff, course, but the greens were good. The layout is tuff you need to play in the fairway, or the short grass.

Very confusing starting from the parking lot. There was a car backed up on the sidewalk right in front of the entrance to the pro shop. Can’t carry clubs inside shop and it’s a maze to find where you can place clubs. Once inside, they were unable to use their credit card machine. No wi-fi or something. Once paid, I was handed a cart key and told to pair up. Once outside at the carts there was no starter or attendant. I was a single so I asked some other golfers their tee times. There were two foursomes for the 12:20 tee time that I had also booked. I ended up pairing up with the 12:40 twosome and waited all day due to the over booking and no Marshals or rangers. The course is a great layout with some really nice holes. The greens were bumpy but rolled relatively fast. Maybe 1 out of every 10 bunkers had any sand in them, many had standing water inside them. Very pretty course with the large areas of rock everywhere reminding you there is a big mountain of stone nearby. Bottom line, this course has some really nice holes and is a fun test of golf. There was some speculation among the golfers I overheard that there had just been a management change. If money is spent on course maintenance this course could be really, really good. And the gas golf carts were great.

Let me start this review by saying I was super excited to play this course for the first time after looking at pictures and course details on the internet prior to pulling up. It was a Saturday but still from the time we walked in the club house it was madness. They didn’t have record of our tee time and I don’t event know if they’re computer was working. The man asked me how much I was “supposed to be” paying and I paid. The range was small and in terrible condition. They were out of carts and we got off almost 30 minutes after our tee time. The pace of play was terrible with no Marshall was no where to be found. I can’t be mad at myself because it is a public course with decent prices and it was a Saturday afternoon but I did not enjoy my round after I finally finished close to 6 hours later. I guess you get what you pay for and this was the case at Southland. The greens and fairways were super dry and not in good shape. If it wouldn’t have been slammed and the course looked like it did in the pictures I would be come back but until then I will take my business elsewhere.

Pros:

Cheap rate.

Greens are fast, but good condition.

Cons:

Booked a 1:40 tee time for a twosome on GolfNow but there was a foursome and a threesome that somehow had the exact same tee time when we showed up at the clubhouse.

Got a golf cart that had no roof on it because it was the only one available at the time.

Pace was obnoxiously slow - only got through 9 holes in 3 hours so we just quit even though we paid for a full 18.

I trusted the four star review on here and what I thought was a decent rate to play but $25 for 9 holes just isn’t worth it. Bummed because it was a waste of a beautiful Saturday afternoon. I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

12 holes, 4.5 hours before we left. Do I need to say anything else? This course has such potential. It's so sad it's run by morons

Great first impression… Not so much the second! Played the course a couple weeks ago by myself with a great pace of play. My son and I went out last week and it was ridiculously slow. We skipped four holes and it still took 4 1/2 hours To finish! The clubhouse in the course itself has great character!

Staff in particular did not make us feel welcome. The morning we played the staff member at the club was not interested in the slightest. We were not made to feel welcome, he didn’t even ask if it was the first time we had played the course. The club house is dirty. I wouldn’t play there again and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Even the staff around the course were miserable and didn’t even speak or look at us for that matter. Not a good experience overall.

I played this course in late ‘90’s when it was a jewel. Then saw it in a disappointing mess in the following years. It seems this course could return to it former state, with a little love and a lot of money put into it. I’ll return to play and chip in on it’s come back!

Everything was great except the green.

Didn't cut the green and too slow.

If they maintain the green well, I would recommand to everybody.

Ther course is laid out very good and challenging.

Want to go back if the green is good.

Overall the courses are not bad, but found bare spots on the fairways and the greens were somewhat bumpy.

I wanted to play at the course for the second time. As I suspected, the course layout is rather challenging at best ... The pace of playing was slower as usual. There's no range mater to push people along with the pace... Two players should not waited by a 4-player in almost every hole that we played. Unfortunately, the 2-player team did not allow us (4-player) to play through...

I will not be playing this course again. Hard to find real fairway grass anywhere on the course, most bunkers did not have ANY sand, tee boxes were sand/dirt mixtures at best, course layout was crazy, greens are tiny, clubhouse is cluttered and nasty.

The layout of this course was nice - good elevation and contours. Creative design. Pamphlet on course (given at pro-shop) was first rate. Parts of the course and also the driving range had little grass. Given it had rained heavily the night before, the course was rather muddy in many places. The pro-shop warned that greens were very fast. I found just the opposite, they were very slow, but generally in good shape. This was my first time playing the course and it's probable that in another 6 weeks the grass would fill in making for better play, but my impression was one of a not too well manicured course and a tight operations budget. Not a bad value for the money, though.

Staff is friendly and the greens are in great shape.