Far Oaks Golf Club

Far Oaks is still worth playing even though it has some issues. Great design and an enjoyable place to play. The senior weekday rate of $45 is excellent.

The greens are in good condition but several greens are showing some stress (11, 12, 13 & 14). To my surprise no fans turned on.

They have always had a fairway drainage issue, mostly on holes 3, 4, 5 & 16. Only one tee box was in rough shape (11). Some of the fairways have rough patches and unsightly weeds.

Some of the foliage needs to be trimmed soon, to maintain the beauty of the golf course. Holes 6, 7 & 11 off the tee.

I've mentioned this numerous times, the tee markers need to be changed. They all look white (except for a thin line of color on the edges). If you love the tee markers that much, at least get the appropriate colored broken tee receptacles at each tee.

The course is extremely fun to play and very challenging.

Far Oaks is one of my favorite courses in the St. Louis metro area. However, I was disappointed in the conditioning of the course.

The fairways & tees need help. Let's start with the fairways - the front nine the worse. Hole 1 fairway is full of clover. These fairways had so many bad areas: 1, 3, 5, 7, 15. Many of the tees had little grass and were so hard you could not get a tee in the ground. The worst tees were: 6, 8 & 16.

The tee markers need to be changed. They all look white and this slows down play. Every tee we have to search for the correct tee. Each tee is white with only the color of the tee in a small thin line inside the all white tee. This is a real problem and the course refuses to address this issue.

The greens had no bad areas. They had small aeration holes and were of medium speed.

I think this course does not have their priorities set correctly. They have spent their money on a gravel walking pathways near the greens on 6 & 14. Looks like they they built a new walking bridge on hole 6 too. This means nothing to the golfer who plays your course. Spend your money on the fairways/tees and coming up with sensible tee markers.

Do not play Far Oaks until they start working on the important areas of the golf course.

Paid $101 (this is the absolute highest end for golf courses in the St Louis area) for a 5 hours and 20 minute round. Tee boxes were very uneven and had divots everywhere. Greens had ball marks EVERYWHERE. I wouldn’t pay more than $45 to play here again.

The fairways are coming in nicely. Greens are rolling well!

Beautiful course. Great shape for this time of year. Fun and challenging!

Great course to play, one of my favorites.

Varied hole layouts make it really fun to play.

For early March, the course is in fine shape. The clearing of the brush and trees on hole 12 - really makes the hole much better. Hole 17 fairway had a trench going across the fairway. They have always been working on that hole because of drainage issues. The $37 weekend senior rate continues to be one of the best in the area.

The greens were very slick and fast. The traps appearance wise were beautiful but it seemed like there was an inch to and inch and half of white sand but below that was hardpan ground. The fairways were all dormant but were cut very low, almost seemed like they rolled them which made them a little thin to strike off of. But the course was beautiful and the weather and pace of play was great!! One of the best public courses around.

First off I really like Far Oaks as a course! It’s a fun shorter shot makers layout which I love. My issue with my latest round there has nothing to do with the course itself. I booked a twosome at 11:57 and was told another twosome went out at 11:30 ahead of us, we caught them on hole 6 and they were complaining about slow play in front of them. They skipped holes and we caught another twosome on hole 8 and joined them. Our new group was behind a group of 6 playing slowly in a cart path only situation. We played behind them for 2 holes thinking there was some sort of tournament ahead, by hole 11 I realized there was no tournament and saw at least 2 holes open in front of this sixsome , I called pro shop and was told they knew about the sixsome and that they were supposed to let groups play through! I told pro shop they weren’t and they said they would send out a marshal …..no one ever came out and we had to play 9 holes behind a sixsome ( beware slow play )

I WILL LIKELY NEVER RETURN TO FAR OAKS BECAUSE OF THIS 5 HOUR ROUND AND SITUATION

Be warned and prepare

Far Oaks is one of my favorite courses in the St. Louis metro. The senior weekday rate of $48 is favorable. However, these issues prevent them from getting a 4 or 5 star rating.

There was no leaf removal on holes 14 & 15. There were no issues on any other holes. Very difficult to for us to find our balls. This results in slow play. Our round was over 5 hours. Waited on every shot.

Another thing that slows down play, you can't tell the colors of the tee markers. They are all white with a thin line of the color for the tee on the edge of the marker. We had to get out of our carts numerous times to determine if we have the right tees.

Overall, the course was in good shape for November. I still recommend Far Oaks but you will have to put up with the items I mentioned above.

Great course - layout and condition.

Slow pace of play 5 hour round. Many holes are cart path only and with the hilly layout really slows the pace of play. In addition put you off the fairway before you got anywhere close to the greens.

Love the course but will go elsewhere when I need to be done in a timely fashion