Westport Golf Course

It was a 45 minute drive to play one of the worst courses I’ve ever played. The only positive about this course is how great the staff were. The layout wasn’t great, lost 3-4 ball in the middle of the fairway because it looked like they hadn’t been cut it a while, when I did find my ball, it was usually sitting on dirt or rocks, the greens were in miserable shape, and the tee boxes were the worst I’ve ever seen in almost 40 years of playing. They were mostly dirt and only a half dozen or so were even marked. The ranger and the clubhouse staff were incredibly kind and helpful, but the course itself is atrocious.

Staff is very friendly and beers are cheap. Being hammered may actually help your overall experience.

Took 4+ hours to play front 9 and didn’t even bother to play the back. Course is in abysmal shape and layout isn’t much better as holes are on top of one another, greens are covered in weeds and tee boxes look like a mortar range, some holes didn’t even have tee markers so that was fun. I’m not sure if they even own mowers or if they just let goats run around to keep the grass down (where there’s actually grass growing). The 3 groups in front of us included 8 women with zero awareness of pace of play or general golf etiquette. Literal nightmare. If you hit driver 280+ just go ahead and leave that bad boy at the house cause you won’t need it. Fairly tight course on the front 9 but even if you’re in the fairway you’re gonna be hitting out of the rough essentially cause it’s a cow pasture. There’s more sand in the divot fillers on the carts than there are in the bunkers. Riding on the cart path is also going to knock your spine out of alignment so enjoy that, my head is still bouncing around. This course should cost $7…per annual membership.

The front 9 was in a bad state today. I lost two balls in the fairway today because weeds + some grass were 3-4in in the fairway! My playing partners also lost balls in the fairway…plus we found 4 balls in the fairway on the 2nd par 5, which indicates others lost balls there too.

The back 9 was also overgrown but better. We’ve had bad weather recently. I hope it’s better next time

Westport has seen better times, interesting layout with multiple lay up par 4s that leave a long approach for your second shot. The golf course conditions, awful. Fairways are a lot of dirt patches and the greens are some of the worst greens you can play. I had a ball bounce up two feet in the air off one of the thousands of weeds growing on the greens. The group I was with couldn’t believe the conditions of the greens. Yes there may be tee times here unlike a lot of the other courses in the area, there is a reason. Until this course decides to sink a lot of money into it stay far away and go to the driving range if there are no other tee times in the area. Your money will be way better spent doing anything else than playing here at the moment.

It's been two years since I last played Westport GC. It's sad to report that this course is lacking ground maintenance of any level. The tee boxes must get the name "tee box" from the dozens of broken tees lying in the grass-less divots. The fairways have more bare dirt spots then grass. The greens are overgrown, bare and weedy. What a disappointing waist of time and money to play this course. It's a shame because the layout is good.

Please save you time and money, tee boxes were unlevel with absolutely no grass, greens had poana grass growing up through the greens in hundreds of spots. Tractor tire marks on several greens, there's no way you'll get a true roll on any green. Cart paths were so bad with roots growing up through them we had to drive on the fairways for a smooth ride. Numerous trees had fallen and just left there. We paid through golf now and it was $34 a piece. Playing there without GN is $44. I would not go back if it was free to play.

This layout and location is fantastic! Money was invested in the greens but they’ve already got weeds sprouting through.

I would love to see an investor come in and work on it. Clear trees and limbs that have died. Regrade and plant fairways. Create drainage and water management solutions. Repave cart paths. Bulldoze and build a proper clubhouse. The layout is so fun it just needs rebooted.

This course is all about value. They have recently invested in the greens and it shows. They are beautiful! You just have to bring your own leaf blower for an early morning round. The fairways and tee boxes are pretty rough but there is hitable grass to be found. The rough is covered by 3-6 inches of leaves which makes it hard to find your ball should you leave the fairway. The layout is challenging with elevation changes on fairways and creek beds that require some course management as you play.

If I bought this course. I would buy a leaf vac first. Then invest in the fairways. Needs a clubhouse remodel but it’s not a country club.