Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club

Open fairways, large greens, lots of hills along with beautiful scenery.

As a first time on this course I was fortunate to pair up with someone who knew the course and the hazards to avoid. Larger groups ahead were courteous about waving us through, making the round just over 2.5 hours. It’s a challenging track with traps that gave birth to more traps, so accuracy is important. Greens were fast and had plenty of slopes, ridges, and turns to keep putting interesting. Fairways generally have lush turf, with a few wet areas. Lots of elevation changes. Clubhouse staff very friendly and helpful. The only detraction keeping this from being a five-star course - and it’s entirely a personal preference - is the housing development setting, albeit a very upscale and beautifully landscaped setting.. That detracts from having the kinds of truly scenic, memorable holes that make the difference between very good and excellent.

Everyone from start to finish was overboard friendly. We felt our business was truly appreciated..Course was in usual good shape. Matt from pro shop came out and saw we were in the middle of a tournament. He moved us ahead and let us come back and get the hole we missed. This saved us an hour and a half at least. Thank you Matt!!

Course is in as good of shape as any course in Tampa at the moment. Greens were excellent for late May and the fairways and tees were in good shape. Quite a bit of rain fell the day before I played so it was a little wet but it didn’t detract from the course conditions.

Only downside on the day was the pace of play. I teed off a little after two and the clubhouse personnel said the course was pretty open. They were correct until I got behind a foursome of men that were extremely slow. They were playing the back tees and they couldn’t hit it 200 yds off the tee. Every hole took 15-20 minutes for them. They were hitting fairway woods into every green. Finally on the 11 hole they let me play through. I waited behind them for 7 holes and 2 hrs and 20 minutes. Once the let me play through I played the last 8 holes in just over an hour. It was disgraceful.

Course was great. I love Lake Jovita and look forward to playing there again in the future. Please get a Marshall or someone to monitor the pace of play. It was ridiculous.

No carts available when you get there. Then they gave carts to people with a 12:30 tee time and people with 12:00 tee times still waiting for a cart and late for tee time. Rented crappy carts from the Abby golf course without GPS as promised. Lots of weeds on the course, thin grass in fairways. Greens nice. Staff in pro shop not very friendly and many people were very irritated, some left and didn't play. $5.00 range balls for a small bag with 15 balls. I counted. The inland course is very hot and humid. We probably won't play there again.

No carts! They are suppose to have GPS, but borrowed/rented really crappy gas cart from the Abby golf course across the street. Range balls, that's a joke. Small bag for 20 balls, $5.00. Pins were not in the right place according to the pin sheet. Bad attitude from the pro shop.

Played here probably about half a dozen times. Some of the best greens in the area. Excellent layout and enough undulations to make you think you’re playing outside of FL. One of my favorite courses around Tampa. Almost all the staff members were pleasant to talk to except the young guy behind the desk.. he seemed rude everytime I’ve played there. Felt like me and my guests were troubling him. The new Head Pro however was super cool and professional.

Great course! I always play the tips and shot 75 from there. The greens are super quick and the course layout is amazing. Lots of pretty holes, but the one thing that really was bad was the bunkers were in horrible shape! That’s the only down fall. Great course and will be back soon

Course had some dry spots but overall the greens were great and would come back.

We have played the North course several times and this was first time playing the South. Overall great experience and course is fair but challenging. Course conditions better than other courses in the area and would play again. Only negative was there are a few bad spots on a few greens, but mostly around the edges so didn’t effect putting

Beautiful course. Condition exceptional.

Lots of bunkers make the course tough when teamed up with lightning fast greens and tough pin placements.

Can't wait to get out here again.

Great course! Super fast greens, great conditions. Can’t wait to play again.

I’ve played this course a few times over the years. I thought everything about the course was great.

Greens were fast as lightning. Took awhile to get used to them.

I did not play it was too crowded!! Was afraid of corna19. Can I get credit?

Have played Lake Jovita’s South course many times overt the years. Great layout. Very different from the usual Florida design. Love the elevation changes. Course is in good shape. Greens are better than many other courses in the area although they have been better. Highly recommend this course.

Really nice course. Greenskeeper was mad at somebody, lots of tucked pins. And very fast with lots of movement. A real test in the wind. A challenging and really fun day.

You can’t expect much more of a golf course than this; it was beautiful, in extremely good condition, and had a nice layout. I also must mention how fantastic their golf carts were, top notch; clean, super comfy, had the built in Bluetooth speakers and a gps system with a large screen. Of course it’s a little pricey, but for the conditions and amenities it’s well worth it.