Blackberry Oaks Golf Club

Nice layout in great shape for the cold spring weve had. Fun layout. Hard par 3s. Easy par 5s. Good mix of holes. No issues with pace of play or course conditions. Would recommend.

Always a good round here. Course is in great shape, and really enjoy the layout.

Refer to my review of 9/24/13. I'll only reluctantly recommend this place. While a formidable 130 slope from the whites there's far too much water and sand for high handicappers. Pace of play when crowded is always a problem.

Blackberry does have an interesting routing - unfortunately must point out several items -

1) greens right now are hard as a rock and will not hold very well. Well struck irons leave easily observable ball marks - even early this season NO ONE seems to repair them to the point where you're forced to fix at least two or three on every green. The old ball marks from last season aren't healing very well either. Greens are "okay" at this time but can forsee issues with them in a few months. They should institute a program requiring all golfers to repair at least one ball mark when they reach the putting surface. It's that bad.

2) Sand Traps - a tad bit too numerous and many holes require a forced carry over them to reach the proper part of the green. NO ONE seems to be raking them at the current time either. Maintained with many having a nice depth of sand.....but footprints all over the pace. Ridiculous. Problem with the depth of the sand they are impossible to rake properly without a ton of effort. Thus after being in several the first few holes....many just don't bother much after that. Perhaps an upgrade to a heavier aluminum rake is needed from the standard light plastic ones provided.

3) Course Design - All 4 of the Par 3's on the day I played required the same club due to wind conditions and flag placement. If you prox the 4th green you should seriously consider using that club on rest of the Par 3's. The Par 5's all seem to have a forced carry trap fronting the green. The "sameness" of these holes is definitely a downgrade.

4) Back nine routing - just awful. Playing almost in an amphitheatre loud golfers will absolutely disturb you on several adjoining holes. It's off putting to hear golf shots from other holes...and from several directions. Leaving the 12th to reach the 13th tee you become "completely in the line of fire/in play" from the 17th tee.....using the same bridge as they will about 125 yards away (no warning sign). Exiting 15 it's compulsory to disturb players putting on the 17th green as you motor between them and the back side of the 18th tee box just to reach the 16th tee box (no warning sign). No one cares they just drive by laughing and bouncing along. The holes are challenging/interesting but lack proper separation/privacy to them even with leaves on the trees.

5) The finishing hole Par 4 with a 135 yard plus forced carry over Blackberry Creek is a high handicappers torment guaranteeing a turtle crawl finish of their nightmare. The scorecard actually suggests play as 3 shotter to the green. If you do decide to lay up be aware that fronting group exiting the final green will drive right back through your line of sight to reach the clubhouse. And are in play if you hit your layup long.

With a light tee sheet I can recommend Blackberry wholeheartedly.....it's a really good challenge to stay out of the water/sand and route your ball properly.....and greens have a lot of slope in them. Watch your step in the bar area...it's slippery with golf shoes on.

Crowded/high season - if you are proficient experienced player you've been warned. Remember I always tell it "like it is" - unvarnished reviews.

Bunkers were the worst I've seen....could be it's early March but on 3 occasions I hit 3 shots where the sand was so thin the underlining ripped up under the wedge and got caught and almost tore my wrist up trying to swing. Like I said it's a nice course but the conditions of the bunkers were bad....Might try again in a few months and the restaurant was closed on mondays....oh well

Saturday morning , Dec. 2. $38 to play the n December! My choice to play, but, course had tarp on EVERY bunker. Terrible! I know it’s December, but don’t charge $38 in December and have your bunkers surrounded with tarp! $ 18 for that, ok. But $38, course better be perfect in December for that price! Terrible greed for customers to charge that!

Even though the price was attractive, it was very disappointing to find every green side bunker to be protected be black environmental barriers.

There needs to be a way that this kind of course conditions can be identified at the time of tee time purchase through GolfNow.

Blackberry is a well maintained and challenging course. Weather was great to be playing after Thanksgiving.

It was wet...rained the 2 previous days. Course is not long with many reasonably straight holes. Some interesting shots required. Tee boxes are very good, fairways well defined, rough was rough this day, errant shots don't automatically put you in jail. Greens are average size and quick with nuances, bunkered well but don't required a carry to reach most of them. I liked it and will happily play again. Played white because of wetness but blues next time. The free course booklet helped a lot.

My second time playing here. It took over 5 hours. Waiting on every shot. No ranger on the course. It was a long day in 95 degree weather. I don't think I will play here again on the weekend.

I recommend getting the free course book, its helpful. No cart girl, which was disappointing playing on a 95 degree day - teed off at 1pm. Wide open on this day and we played in 3:20.

Great course for the money. Very well maintained.

Greens were very good. Cruised along until a couple of slow foursomes held things up. Otherwise a very good day.

Course layout is fun with lot of trouble if you don't hit the ball straight. Short bu tricky. Fairways are in super shape greens good but could be faster. Play here often and enjoy the course. Staff are always friendly. Definitely worth playing

Simply ask how many outings they have that day. For us, three... was like being around three bachelor parties. The round was just over 5 and half hours. Never again on the weekend at Blackberry Oaks.

Course was in great condition. Very nice layout. For some reason sprinkler was on flooding the 15th green, making the hole unplayable.