Riverwood Golf Course

I was deciding between Riverwood and Tom O’Leary to get a season pass to and after playing each Riverwood is the better course. The greens at Tom O aren’t maintained the best and had rough patches, the greens at Riverwood are in great condition. Riverwood is a challenging course with areas of tall grass as the rough for most holes making it a course that rewards accuracy. Riverwood has lots of trees which is great for staying cool in the summer. Riverwood is groomed very well and is a great course. The only thing Tom O has going for itself is it’s an easier course.

The quality of the course is fine. But don’t bother paying for a cart you’re better off walking. Half the holes are cart path only, and even the ones that aren’t have everything but the fairway as restricted. And it puts you into limp mode so you aren’t able to get out of the restricted. So if you hit your ball on the opposite side of the path you have to leave your cart, grab 4 clubs, and walk to it, then walk back to the cart. It put me in limp mode…. ON the cart path. With the restrictions they need paths on both sides. It also yells at you for being 10 minutes behind in pace of play…. When the only reason you’re behind is because you stopped at the turn to use the bathroom and buy drinks, stopping at the turn isn’t calculated into their program. We were trying to try out new courses instead of same old same old, but if we ever go back will probably only do 9 and walk as it will be faster.

We won’t be back. The course was nice and the greens were good. The group before us was late and cut in front of us on the first hole at our tee time . We then also let a twosome through on the first hole. The twosome were walk ups without a scheduled tee time. It went ok until the 15th hole when some Karen from a couple groups back came up and told one of the guys in our group to pick up the pace. (We still had the twosome in site in front of us). We paid good money to enjoy an afternoon of golf that was ruined because the overbooking of the course and an idiot that couldn’t mind his own business.