Missouri Bluffs Golf Club

This course used to be the best public course in the area (in my humble opinion). Great condition, great pace, great layout. I was more than willing to pay the premium to play here. Only problem I really had was the par-3 second hole would stack up groups pretty quickly after the par-5 hole one, and the greens would collect ball marks very easily. This place has turned into a clown show since new ownership took over. The problem is the 8-minute tee times. I get new ownership coming in and wanting to turn a profit after dumping in a bunch of money into new facilities/equipment, but who can reasonably keep pace with this? Groups start stacking up like crazy quickly. There have been multiple times where I've tried to play after work only for it to take 45 minutes to play the first two holes. Want to play on the weekend? Good luck finishing in under 4 1/2 hours. These pace problems will persist because there is nothing actionable being done to address this. I can't knock it entirely. This course design is one of the best in the area. fun and challenging for all skill levels. The facilities are great and I can see where they are trying to go with the club, but paying this much for this on-course experience is a joke. I usually do not mind a longer round but it is getting out of hand.

Beautiful course and grew up next to it. Loved the course but after new ownership the prices increased and just not worth it anymore

The Missouri Bluffs has a long way to go to become the upscale golf course it used to be. However, changes are in progress.

Things you will notice:

They have poured a concrete slab at the back of the range, the length of the range. This slab includes driving mats and portable lights to hit balls at night. The range has numerous targets to aim at, including a football goal post.

The entire lower floor of the clubhouse is being renovated. Making the dining area larger and the pro shop smaller. You actually pay for your green fees in the front of the clubhouse - in the lobby. Plastic protects you from the construction dust behind the lobby.

Outside under the pavilion, there is a temporary snack shop. With draft beer and music playing. Restrooms are located there too.

New carts with rain covers to protect your clubs when it rains. The carts have speakers but no GPS screens yet.

A new starter that had a pleasant personality and enjoyed you playing the course. Not the military style attitude of the previous regime.

There was a beverage cart on the course during a weekday.

Relating to the course:

Most of the tee boxes have been resodded.

The greens are decent. However, overwatered and not much of a root structure. Because of the softness of the greens, your ball makes huge ball marks. Causing the greens to be marked up. They had fans working on the greens which struggle to get air. The 13th green was showing the most stress.

Bunkers were in better shape and raked.

Almost all the fringes are burned up.

The fairways are a mess. Numerous drainage issues and areas with no grass.

No rake by the right greenside bunker on hole 2.

The senior weekday rate of $52 is slightly lower than the previous $54.

The Missouri Bluffs is moving in the right direction. With the fairways being the biggest project to fix to make this a top-scale golf course once again. I would recommend playing here, you just have to know that the fairways have bad spots now and will be fixed later. They have a lot on their plate.

The layout of the course was well done and the fairways and tee boxes were very well taken care of for the most part. The greens however looked as if it had hailed the night before (it hadn't) I'm not sure if nobody's fixing their divots or if something is going on but they rolled relatively true as long as you avoided the marks.

In am glad the old ownership is gone. The previous owners ran the place in the ground taking profits with little to no re investment in maintenance for years. The course layout is amazing and hopefully the new ownership group can bring it back to what it used to be. It appears they might be with new carts and remodeling the club house, but it is too early to tell. The bunkers are dirt. There are dead patches in the fairways. Some tee boxes are dirt mixed with mowed weeds. It might take a year or two with large investment to bring it back. There are currently much nicer courses available at their price point. However, If they fix it up nice again I would gladly pay more because the course layout is great.

Paid $84 pp to play here recently. Quite disappointed. Have played many times. New management. New carts. But course in poor condition due to bad previous nanagenebt(?), bad current management(?), bad weather (?), who knows. But I do know they have a new team. They have a strategy around membership which looks encouraging and when we got done there were a lot of people getting ready to play.

Just not worth $84. Was in the past and I hope will be next time I play there. Probably currently worth $30-50.

Hope that helps.

If you like gnats play this course if not stay away. In addition, the course was extracted up due to failure to hold golfers accountable to pace of play.

My wife and I were passing through and wanted to play a top Missouri golf course and ‘Missouri Bluffs’ showed as top 4 in the state. Overall experience was horrible! Pace of play was over five hours. Course conditions were as bad as the pace. When we checked in the employees were apologetic from the star stating that they were recently under new management. Little did we know! This course needs to be shut downforce at least a month to recover from poor course maintenance management. We play all over the states and this was the worst!

The tee boxes are terrible no grass growing on some of them and spotty in the others. Fairways have dead spots all over them. The greens have multiple ball marks that no one fixed. No sand in any of the bunkers. The round took 5.5 hrs our tee time was 20 minute as delayed because they overbooked on Father’s Day. This is not the MO Bluffs it used to be. I hope new ownership can bring the course back.

We went out on a very wet rainy day. My wife wanted to ride along, not many golfers out but they still demanded full green fees for my wife. She doesn't golf. The course was in awful shape and not just from the rain. And the bug situation is out of control. Gnats constantly bombard you throughout the entire round. Disappointed.