Eighteen Hole at Holiday Island Country Club

First impressions were great. Met the pro who was extremely friendly and helpful. Could have talked to him much longer.
The course layout is very nice. Many mature trees and elevated greens. Not a long course but trees require some accurate tee shots.
The fareways are a disaster. Many bare spots and weeds. Greens are fine and mostly level.
There are at least 3 holes that have blind tee shots. You can't tell where the group ahead of you is at. A signal bell on these holes would let golfers know when it is safe to tee off. Some courses also have parascopes to help see over hills.
The front 9 played in under 2 hours which was OK. My wife and I usually play 18 holes in 3 1/2 to 4 hours. The back 9 however was terribly slow. We caught up to a group of 3 who were not only bad golfers but walked extremely slow back and forth to their carts. Since it was cart path only, they took forever to play each hole. Since they were all playing the shortest tees, we could never catch them on a tee box to pass them. Since they had no golf edequate, they never waited or offered to let us play through. There was no one within several holes ahead of them. On the 18th hole they sat in their carts next to the green and talked for 10 minutes before moving on. No course staff was monitoring pace of play. The back nine took nearly 3 hours but felt muchlonger.

Hated that the driving range was closed - I think permanent. Course was great -

Very good condition and layout. Not too crowded. Excellent greens.

Tee boxes and fairways are in need of some attention. They need to get the guy caring for the greens to help with the rest of the course.

It was too busy day
Normally it would be enjoyable

Staff at pro desk was not friendly and there was no driving range. But the course itself was good - an easy course. If you are a scratch golfer or low handicapped, I suspect this will not be challenging enough for you. But we play for fun and so the open fairways and small amounts of water and sand traps was welcome for us.

Not a real long course. Shipping fairways can catch balls on wrong side of fairways....stay left... front 9. Back nine was longer but not too bad. Played the back tees. Greens were very receptive and rolled nicely.

The course was in pretty good condition from tee box’s to greens, except for the bunkers. The bunkers were terrible. Joined up with another player and had a fun round. It was a little slow but not to bad. Would like to play here again if not for the drive.

I was visiting the area and tried to sneak in a round of golf. This was a great little course with excellent greens. The greens really compared tremendously to others courses.

My only complaint was there was a group of seven that didn’t let people play though. Finally we just went around them and came back but I mean really 7 people in one group?

The views on some of the holes are amazing. The greens were in excellent condition and the course layout was very nice. All of us enjoyed our round. The staff was very friendly.