Willowick Golf Course
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Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Blue | 71 | 6061 yards | 67.7 | 110 |
Red (W) | 71 | 5742 yards | 72.3 | 118 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Blue M: 68.4/113 W: 74.4/124 | 327 | 195 | 502 | 155 | 387 | 463 | 183 | 281 | 375 | 2868 | 520 | 541 | 154 | 388 | 330 | 397 | 286 | 178 | 399 | 3193 | 6061 |
Green M: 66.5/109 W: 72.4/119 | 320 | 190 | 481 | 144 | 349 | 444 | 149 | 267 | 367 | 2711 | 510 | 532 | 147 | 381 | 323 | 382 | 270 | 157 | 329 | 3031 | 5742 |
Handicap | 11 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 8 | |||
Par | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 71 |
Handicap (W) | 13 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 12 |
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Photo submitted by Caljuju on 02/14/2024
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Our scorecard... Photo submitted by Peter3419502 on 06/11/2020
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Rough but playable
I’ve played this course 4 times in the past 18 months and the experience is always the same. The staff is cool to deal with and the pace of play is good/fair. The course is maintained but it’s still rough. The driving range grass is like hitting off of weeds but it’s not to far off from what you’ll be hitting off of when you go play your round. Rumor has it that the course is on its last legs and won’t be around in the next few years and it kinda feels that way. It’s a shame…this place has a ton of potential but just needs some extra love. You’ll have fun playing, no doubt, but don’t expect a lot.
My old friend
This old track has always been a blast to play. It has all the charm of the local muni i love playing. The new GM is trying to make some changes and keep it going and we all appreciate his efforts. The greens are still good and the carts are new. Its got potential and needs our support so keep making tee times. I was part of the mens club back in the day and hope this course can get all the way back.
Fairways were not good enough but you can always pick your ball and put it in a good lie.
Course really needs total renovation. The course can be a very good place to play again.
Willowick
Price was good on Golfnow. Pace of play was was good, 3 1/2 hours for 18 holes. Tee boxes need alot of help, greens are only fair for true roll.
Terrible experience. Played in the ghetto.
I’ve been playing golf for 20+ years and I’ve never had such a disappointment experience. The range is so uncapped, and that I couldn’t hit anything without a tee.
My wife is just getting into golf, so I thought this would be good practice, being a “troon” facility.
Instead, we had to think about our own safety and skip a few holes to avoid some thugs. They walked onto the course and harassed other players. Taking their golf cart, blocking the green, throwing their clubs around, etc..
There were six of these kids, so we skipped from 14 to 18, where two teenagers were making out right on the front edge of the green. I wanted to let someone in the pro shop know, but they’re already closed as two teams of young girls were going out to play.
For us to pay $80 total is offensive, and for golf now to be advertising This “troon” course is sad.
It’s not Pelican Hill…
Greens were in pretty nice shape considering all the rain SoCal has received this year.
The fairways… well this track doesn’t really have fairways. It’s all rough..
Tee boxes.. it’s like hitting off a lumpy cobblestone road.
Tee’em high and let’em fly!
Fairways were horrible
The fairways were not in good shape. The greens were good and they have new golf carts. They staff was great but not enough to get me to come back.
Poor condition
The course is in bad shape. The fairways are rough and have over grown weeds
Worse course in Orange County
This course has to be the absolute worse course in all of Orange County! This course has junkyard carts, has zero smooth pathways to drive on. The fairways look like a gopher battlefield with tunnels and mounds everywhere. Hundreds of them. I think the best thing about this course is the greens, and I give that a 2 star rating. I wouldn’t come back to this course even if they paid me to play here.
Really bad
Locals know how bad this course is and it’s a cheaper, last minute option with open tee times for a reason. If you’ve never played here, don’t! The greens are possibly the worst I’ve ever experienced, you can hit in the fairway every time and likely be in a gofer hole, divot, sand, or dirt. On the front 9 the tee boxes have tree roots running along the surface, divots everywhere, impossible to stand on even ground.
No cart girls with drinks or food, “restaurants” only had nathan hot dogs & a very limited bar. And the bathroom has black mold everywhere and sinks that are non-functional. I can go more into detail about the other issues but you get the gist.
It’s the oldest 18 hole course in Orange County so I hope there’s a way to turn this course around but it’s likely due to close
Accept it for what it is.
Not easy to find good tee times in OC. Willowick at times is go to for this. For the fee, again in OC it’s not a bad track. Do really like staff. Greens generally are in good condition. Other parts of the course could use better maintenance, attention. Been playing it for over 30 years, not sure what it is but pace of play seems not as bad previously. Good course to play when your game isn’t treating you too well. Will be back again and again.
Disappointing day
Unhappiness started with the so-called driving range. The ground was torn up from over-use. Hard to get a good lie just to practice! The balls were quite old making the $7 small bucket price criminally excessive.
The fairways were all in extremely poor condition. Pot holes and uneven terrain made the ride painful if not harmful.
Course Conditions and More
I’ve been playing ‘Wick for a few years now and the conditions have been the best that I’ve ever played.
For the amount of play it gets, the greens and fairways are fairly lush.
Really liked that they have cordoned off many of the areas players like to drive to grow those areas, especially on the Par 3s.
Love the new carts! Really nice touch and they restocked the Pro Shop. Like the ‘Wick swag. Great job!
The guy who is always running the show
It doesn't matter how good the course is the guy who is always in the pro shop is running the place into the ground. He is lazy and has no business knowledge. We had 2 groups of two and the guy asked us to pay with 1 card for 4 people and we said no. Then he begged us to do that. We again said no each person will be paying for themselves. And he said well that will take 15 minutes then. This makes no sense and he is just a lazy crooked guy.
The Wick is back
I've been playing this course for 2 decades. Back when I was a regular and Kenny K. was the teaching pro this course was local course and was packed on the weekends. Then it turned into a 5 somes 6 hour round and I left. The conditions were not good and nobody seemed to mined the long waits at every tee. For a very long time this course looked like it was going to fade away and disappear forever. Now the new leadership is trying to bring it back to a better place to play. New carts are coming (no gps😫) and for the first time in a long time the greens are much better. They are cleaning it up little by little and it's much much better. If they keep the cost down and eliminate slow play with better more consistent Marshall work I'll be happy to return to play it again. I say we should support their efforts as they work hard to get it back to previous years. Give the Wick a try....
Reviewer must be a overly happy person, or he was high when he wrote this review .