Kingwood Island Course - what to expect

Hole 9 and the 15-18 stretch can really kill a round.

Front nine is pretty tame. Back nine is a little tougher. 18 layout was designed by someone on crack. It is my least favorite of the remaining 3 courses which begs the question, why not play the Forest or Lakes?

Keep your head on a swivel in your cart around the clubhouse/practice area. It’s a zoo.

I saved bogey on 18 after hitting my tee ball in the water. One of my proudest golf achievements

Well the Marsh doesn’t exist anymore. After the flood and the hurricane last year that knocked down over 1,000 trees they said screw dealing with maintenance on 4 courses so they turned it into a practice course for like 4 holes. All the resources now go to the remaining 3 but they are getting abused. Deerwood is out of commission until the Fall while they are getting new greens so all the Deerwood people are now slumming at Kingwood. Plus they seem to have a gigantic tournament every week at Kingwood in the Spring where you get a frigging battalion of golfers that literally destroy the course. I pretty much just use the club to practice and play off the reservation.

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Plus they seem to have a gigantic tournament every week at Kingwood in the Spring where you get a frigging battalion of golfers

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PVF Roundtable thanks you for the hospitality.

I dropped my golf membership about a year ago. I just wasn’t getting my monies worth when I was playing mostly away from Kingwood anyway. Plus, I knew when the Deerwood guys showed up it was gonna be a clusterfrick. I still go up to the Forest Range a lot to practice and they typically don’t ask don’t tell if you grab a cart and go dink around on the old Marsh course.

Go left on 18... if you have any nuts.