Bay Hills Golf Club

The course was in excellent condition for June.. Maintenance of the course have improved since last time I played. I would recommend this course for play. It was worth the price. Greens were in excellent shape and revitalize bunkers made the course look in tip top shape.

To build on my past review from a few weeks ago.

The Good, staff still wonderful, friendly, great people. The upstairs lounge is very nice and anyone that plays this course should check it out. Like the white flags BUT I would love to see red=front, white=middle, blue=back to show players the general pin placement, did not see this data on the score card.

The Midline, greens were better, still very inconsistent, need water and comparable mowing.

The Bad, STILL so many areas that were sodded and or sanded (bunkers) have ropes around them as unplayable. Also, the sod has browned in many areas I assume to lack of water. Seems like the landscape team is having a problem getting this figured out. It is kind of annoying to pay a weekend rate to play a course and so much of the front 9 has OB areas right next to the greens. Many times this turns a simple chip into a mid-distance sketchy shot. This has to be addressed better for this course to get better than 3.5 stars.

Great value course. Only complaint is no water jugs for refilling on the course, at least that I saw.

First the good. Staff is always friendly. The course is in pretty good shape. Greens were abnormally VERY fast. When the "OB" area (bunkers and patches) are grown in and actually usable, the course should be much better. They finally made ALL the flags white. They used to have different color flags that are used by all other courses as marking specifications for hole location, but in past Bay Hills fashion there was no rhyme nor reason where they were placed.

Now the badness. Since I have been playing there, if I was a single, I got my own cart, not this time. I was lucky to have a very friendly young "unstoned" person in the cart with me, but this was clearly a money grab to get a double cart fee for a single cart. There were several carts available, so cart allocation was nominal. The first cart we received was damaged, had a bad drive system, and the bag retention system failed dropping my expensive kit on the cement damaging my clubs. When I mentioned this club damage, it was shrugged off by the staff. Clubs are expensive and to have poor cart management cause damage to them. obviously was very agitating. The course had A LOT of areas under repair or new, so the entire course was filled with roped off no go zones. Finally, we had two people in the other cart in our foursome, they both were very short hitters and were playing front tees. They seemingly refused to join us and continually teed off in front of us and play 3-4 shots while we waited for them to clear to we could hit one. This acted as a bulkhead in our round that ruined pace of play for all around. Yet, not a single marshal was seen all day to rectify this situation. Just silly.

The greens were rolled and consistent. Much better than the Preserve greens I played a few days before. Also happy to see that the two putting greens have been joined and also enlarged. It still needs a little buildup in long "valley" that was created, but otherwise nice.