One of my favorite Jax courses, full of great history and the one with the most elevation change. Greens are coming back nicely. Staff is great, Wayne in the golf shop is always extremely helpful and knowledgeable. Proud to call it my local course.
3 weeks ago
Incredibly disgraceful to even charge $60+ for this course. Attempted to play and decided it was better not to break a club on these fairways. Tried to play here a few months ago and the sprinklers were on the fairway several of our holes. When called the clubhouse they just said try to avoid it and we’re working on the course… would have hoped for some improvement a few months later but no! It was worse! Greens, fairways, and tee boxes the worst condition I’ve seen from a golf course. Might as well go to jax beach and hit balls in the ocean from the dunes! Website advertisement vs what we actually saw… they should be paying people to come to this course.
9 months ago
Two words: GOAT RANCH. Horrible and furry greens, we had to implement a 2 putt max because the greens were so bad and not fun. Fairways and tee boxes have little to no grass - certainly aware Florida has been rain starved, but doesn't this club have a sprinkler system - there's water all through the course that could recycle and feed sprinklers that they obviously don't use. So disappointing - they truly should close for a period and attempt to get the course back - layout isn't that bad, but any greens-keeping staff associated with this club should be ashamed.
2 weeks ago
I’ve had some horrible golf experiences in my day, but this one may very well take the cake. Where do I even begin??? The sand on the greens? The radical Canadian geese that seem to have overthrown the grounds crew? Perhaps the audacity of course management to think charging $50 is an acceptable price for this nightmare?
Let’s start with the sand and green conditions. These greens were so sand covered that I wouldn’t have been surprised to round the turn to find a camel sipping a beer and ripping a cigarette. Why waste all that precious sand in bunkers when you could just dump 60 metric tons on each green? I’m almost certain that these greens double as a litter box for the geese. If George Washington crossed the Delaware only to find these playing conditions, I’d bet my bottom dollar he would’ve turned around and returned from whence he came.
Next let’s talk about these geese… if you plan to visit the beach, a petting zoo, and whack a few balls around, you can just plan a visit to Hidden Hills Golf Club and knock all 3 of those things out at once. These geese may have very well have committed a hostile takeover on the grounds crew is the only reasonable conclusion I can come to. They have turned this facility into a dystopian zoo/post-apocalyptic looking beach.
Finally, let’s address the price. $50 for a round of golf is pretty reasonable, but to charge $50 knowing of all the aforementioned details is a slap to the face. Everyone dreams of retiring to live a life of peace and tranquillity near a golf course, but if this were my only option, I would consider seeking full time employment into my 90’s. Management needs to find the goose with the most business sense and just hand the keys over. I’m almost certain the course would improve and the price could be more justifiable if that were the case.
8 months ago
I’m sorry to say I had the displeasure of playing this awful course earlier this year. There was only one green that could be considered a green. The rest of them were in such bad shape your ball would jump left or right due to the blemishes in the green making it impossible to read a putt. Basically, you’d putt your ball and cross your fingers. Sand traps were like gravel. Fairways you couldn’t even tell where the first cut ended and the second cut began. There are worn out course, and there are courses where the owner simply does not care. Hidden Hills is the latter of the two. No clue what the green fees are since I played during a tournament, but if it’s anything above $5 it’s criminally overpriced. There are so many better options in the area and I would encourage folks to play elsewhere.
5 months ago