Francis A. Gross Golf Course

I was approached (on the driving range) by an employee who was apologizing for the course conditions ("we have quite a bit of winterkill") and I assured him that most courses suffered winter kill too (I work at a golf course too). Wow... I now understand why he was ashamed of his place of employment. The entire golf course had large swaths of winterkill (completely dead grass) that resulted in deadpan and some holes were dead from tee box to green! It happens... but to charge $71 is absurd. That's $20 more than my course does and it made our place look like a pristine country club!

Francis Gross has a traditional, rolling layout cut through trees with what could be amazingly tricky greens but because it's a city-run golf course, it's neglected by what is probably a poorly staffed and inexperienced grounds crew. Would have considered returning because my son lives in Minneapolis but he said he's never playing there again. I would consider returning if they lowered their rates but they won't because there aren't many options for the public to play golf in Minneapolis other than their (over-priced) golf courses.

We pulled up to the course and they did not even have enough carts for everyone. Then the pace of play was one of the slowest I have ever experienced ever we had people with carts mixed with people walking. Course itself had some of the worst greens I have ever seen. Course layout was the only good part about this place other than that I would never step foot here again especially for 70 dollars.

The Minneapolis City golf courses have stopped using Golf Now but Golf Now continues to post available tee times and require pre-payment for tee times that don’t exist. When my foursome arrived at the course there were no openings. Golf Now needs to get their act together..this in inexcusable.

My compliments to Aiden at Gross who had the very difficult job of informing customers they wouldn’t be playing golf that day due to somone else’s incompetence.

Played behind ladies league so slow pace but still very pleasant golf . All flat and nothing surprising like many munis but course is in a good shape and all the people were so very friendly .

Course was in pretty good shape. Nothing too interesting, but fun still. No beverage cart for most of the round and inside bar was closed when we finished (around 7:30). Would play again though if price was right.

I had the day off and decided to pick up a hot deal tee time as a single. Paired with a threesome from Kansas (up for the Twins game). Teed off at 11am, 92 degrees and humid. Luckily the deal time included a cart! Course was very dry, just like every other property in the Twin Cites during this heat wave. The fairways, tees, and greens were in pretty good shape. Greens rolled true and fast for a public course. Pace of play was slow. Isn't it always? But I was not at work, so overall enjoyable.

Would recommend this course. It's pretty flat and if you spray your ball it stays in play for the most part.

Great staff, course in good shape very well maintained and in great shape

From tee to green, every hole was in great shape. Roughs were a little long probably because of the rain earlier in the day. I did not see a single weed in any of the fairways. Best condition I've ever seen this course in.

Only drawback was that there were no riding carts available even though I pre-paid to ride.