Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort

For a course with a lot of play, no money is being spent. The cart paths are in terrible condition. Not worth the money and no discount with aeration. Paid $100. Not worth $40 and the second “best” in Sandestin. Troubling as Sandestin used to be a great course to play. Not now unfortunately. If you can’t fix the cart paths, you obviously don’t care. Tried to post photos but can’t

This was my first time playing this course. I'll be brief but direct, it's now my second FAVORITE course of all time. I've been an avid golfer for 40 plus years and played courses like Harbor Town "Hilton Head" SC, Thornblade and the preserve at Keowee in upstate SC. I've played in almost every US State, "THE LINKS" is only second to "REGATTA BAY" Miramar Beach Florida in my personal opinion. From the layout of the course and scenery to the staff, amenities, and value for quality of play you owe it to yourself to experience this awesome golf link experience.

Greens in horrible shape, especially the front nine. Back nine a little better but green fees should’ve been reduced. It was worse than airiated greens.

People were great and the course was not perfect conditions but vey nice and playable., I got a special rate due too the greens being aerated in last two weeks, Aeration was not a terrible roll on the greens. I will try it again when its not been aerated. Nice layout!

The greens were just aerated a few days ago. The staff said they were 70% healed but I would put it at 30%. The course is in good shape, but they need to have more water on the course to drink on a hot August day.

Really nice course, well maintain throughout the course. The staff was very nice and helpful especially Ms. Morgan inn the club house.....from Ken....Army Special Force

The Greens on Baytowne Course are absolutely horrible. The have to use a mower with a dull blade...there were at least 1/4" - 1/2" large chunks missing from the greens in several places. To charge the price they charge to play with the course (especially the greens in such poor condition), I would recommend AGAINST playing the Baytowne course. I have NEVER seen a course in my entire life with worse greens than this course.

Had an early tee time . Staff in club house was super rude . Starter was too lazy to get out of his cart. They just sanded the greens which we weren't made aware of.

The greens were unacceptable for such a quality course. They shouldn't allow play under such conditions, especially for $100.

Course layout was nice, had a lot of character. Greens were horrible though. But the design and the people in my opinion out weighed the brutal greens. I am hoping they are just preparing them for aeration. I will play this course next year when I return.

I get it, it’s touristy golf. But if you’re paying $127 for a round, it would be nice to have some consistent greens. They weren’t in great shape, one would roll fast, other like you’re putting on carpet. Range was closed so the round the included practice balls was a bummer. Should be a $75 course at most.

First, I played the Raven course in late June and it was outstanding. The greens were incredible and the course was well maintained. We went down on a family boys trip last week and couldn't get on the Raven with a group of 4 so we played Baytowne. The greens were very very slow and someone had tapdanced around d every hole. It almost looked intentional. It looked as though the cups had not been changed in a while. They were burred out something awful. They were so bad that I had a new LAB putter and I refused to putt with it after the first few holes. I was worried I would send my putter back with an unfair assessment. It was an embarrassing experience, because I had built the course up to my brother and 2 sons. I spent the round and evening apologizing. My municipal greens at home were better taken care of than this resort course, and the cost is considerably less. Overall an uneasy round of worry because of the way I built the experience up to my foursome. Very disappointed in the experience. The Raven experience was great. An everpresent beverage cart and overall great experience. We never saw a beverage cart the entire 18 holes. We did see a couple at the turn and the end of our round in the clubhouse area. There was no drinking water on the course and no coolers allowed. The heat index was 105 and we were parched. (Started at 11:50 and finished at 3:30) Pace of play was great, but 2 of us were single handicap golfers and the other 2 were 15 or less. I hit 14 of 18 greens and 11 fairways and had multiple 3 putts. Putting the greens was more than challenging. We kidded about automatic 2 putts outside of 10 feet. That shouldn't happen at a $100 plus round of golf. Needless to say I didn't apply this score to my GHIN. I hate writing poor reviews and contemplated not writing this one, but deemed it was necessary. My group wanted to go to the clubhouse to complain, be as though I payed for the rounds, but I was too upset and would have lost my witness. I know this resort takes pride in service and I pray this was an anomaly, and not the standard for the courses not named the Raven.

Balls bounced all the way to the hole. Substantial dry spots, tufts and covered with sand to mask the problems

Paid $170 for an early afternoon tee time. I had not played here before, but I noticed a lot of other local courses ran deals in the afternoons due to heat. This course did not, so I was expecting it to be a step above the other courses in the area I had played, but it was not. Pace of play was brutally slow (we played in exactly 5 hours) and there was no one on the course monitoring pace of play that I noticed. The course itself was a fun track...not too difficult with a few tougher holes out there. Probably not one I will return to from a value perspective.

Arrived at the club house to be told the greens had been topped dressed and this was a good thing! Hit the first green and quickly figured out why. Spots filled in with sand all over the greens. The greens looked like they hadn’t been cut in weeks!

Completely unplayable and made for a terrible round..no way should anyone be charged that amount to play conditions like this course was in!