The Willow at Golf Courses at Kenton County, The

They plan on closing the willows later this summer to reseed.

The course is OK. Some challenges. There are hole where there is no landing area - all slope. The traps are horrible - hard pack and old sand/gravel. The greens are in the worse shape of any course in the area. Given the wet spring we've had, you would think they would be perfect (like all the other courses around).

I got a twilight rate at $30 on golfnow, which is a good deal IMO. There was nobody out there at that time so my round only took 3 hours, which is always nice.

This course is where the Kenton County Championships are played every year, & I think it's a good course for that. There's a decent of risk/reward available. This course also demands that you be straight off the tee. Due to the many hills & sloping fairways, hitting it left or right means there's a good chance your ball will wind up in the thick stuff, which is almost impossible to find from there. The course does not favor someone with a fade or a slice. This gets worse later in the summer months when things dry up.

The greens were in good shape, & they usually are here. A bit slow, but good nontheless.

Played on the weekend, the Willows, tee time 10 am. On time tee off, course crowded, inexperienced foursome in front of us slowed our play on front nine, they left after that and we moved right along. Greens and fairways good, rough fair, somewhat high as it should be. Tees need work, some were closed with no signs of reseeding going on. One tee had a water leak with standing water. Sand in all traps but loose only 1 inch down, below that hard pan and compacted, a rototiller would loosen up. Great price on golfnow $15 +tax for a weekend. Staff friendly, food good, beer cold. Staff in snackbar area need training and updated information on current channels for TV, this is not the first time they were clueless. I looked at channel guide and very outdated. Why have a TV if they don't know the channels.

Pace was very slow. It took us 5.5 hours to play 18 holes.

Not happy with the fairways and tee boxes. More than half of the tee boxes do not have grass or even ground to hit off of.

greens were sandy and bumpy. Windy and wet today and cart path only.

Not a horrible course, not in my top 10 by no means greens were very bumpy.

The fairways and greens are getting worse the more the season goes along. However, I do believe they are going to put new fairways in like on Fox. That will make this course one of the best in the area if they bring the greens back with the new fairways.

tee box are full of weeds. fairways are full of bare spots.

I think they use farm equipment to cut the fairways, and haven't watered since last summer. Abominable. Quit after 9 holes and 3 hours on 9/15/13.

I grew up 5 minutes from Kenton Co. Courses which houses 3 courses this Fox Run and The Pioneer of the 3 this has always been my favorite however on 7/20/13 the course was barely even playable on the front 9 greens were in such poor condition we almost left... fairways on some holes on the front have patches of dirt.... unacceptable. This course use to be one of the gems in the area now it's nothing but an eye sore... painful.

Friendly staff; nice course in good condition and some challenging holes.
Con: no restroom available on course
On this occasion, had the unfortunate timing of having the mowing crew follow and sit and wait behind our shots on 4 of the first 5 holes.

Played 4 rounds here in a tourney a few years back... The members went wayyyy low, shot 77,77,72,72 and lost by 12 shots... Beautiful course, great greens, and nice set up... I believe a real golf course needs a long par 3, a short par 3, a reachable par 5, a risk/reward par 5, a driveable par 4, and a mix of left to right, right to left, and straight holes... This course has all this....