(03-23-2018, 11:09 PM)JagsorDie Wrote: Blue sky is a huge waste. Play hidden hills if you want to go to that area.

Blue sky is old mill cove and they put a whole bunch of money onto redoing the club house and not much to the corse.

Windsor is very nice but inconsistent as far as firmness of fairways. Some holes will have very soft fairways with almost muddy areas while some will be very firm.

Best bang for your buck that I have found is bent creek. Exetremely well maintained corse for relatively cheap.

Also Hyde park off lane ave is worth mentioning.  Very cheap but you get a decent corse for pretty cheap.


Also should mention oak bridge in sawgrass... worst corse I've ever played for 35$ lol... terrible condition. I got off st Augustine grass three feet off the green. There corse is mainly st Augustine grass and crab grass lol
Can't wait for the new jax beach to open.

Bent Creek and Hyde Park are good cheap courses.   Those are the ones I play the most often, mainly because they're both near my house.  

Hyde Park is an old course, designed by the famed Donald Ross back in the 30s.   I think it has a lot of character.   It used to host professional tournaments back in the 40s and 50s.   Hole #6, a shortish par 3, is where Ben Hogan made an 11 in a professional tournament.   They have a little sign on the tee pointing that out.   If you play from the member tees, which in this case are the white tees, it's about 6,100 yards.   It's closed on Thursdays.   I think I've played Hyde Park hundreds of times, dating back to when I was a teenager.   It's the course I grew up on.  

https://www.hydepark.golf/

Bent Creek is one I also play a lot.  They have the best practice facility I've seen anywhere.  Driving range, putting green, chipping green, practice bunker.  And it's cheap.   If you play Bent Creek at 5,400 yards, in my opinion that would be about equal in difficulty to Hyde Park at 6,100 yards.   Bent Creek has a lot more hazards than Hyde Park.   I've seen some real good golfers on the range at Bent Creek.   I think it's because of the cheap monthly rate on range balls, and the great practice facilities.   If my back would hold up, I could spend hours out there, just hitting balls, chipping around, putting around...   Unfortunately, you get to a certain age when you have to slack off or else you could get some kind of chronic injury. 

Last time I played Jax Beach it was absolute garbage.   The fairways were full of dollarweeds and some of the greens didn't have any grass at all, just dirt.   But that was a couple of years ago.

When I was younger there was a Fort George golf course.   It's gone now, but I remember it as very scenic, lots of old oak trees lining the fairways.   It used to frustrate us, because those old oak tree branches had grown to the point where the fairways were very tight.  But I did love that course.  

Decades ago we also used to play Fernandina.  That was always a fun little expedition.   They had 27 holes, and each 9 holes was different.

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