Brookside Golf Course
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About
Nestled in the gently rolling hills of Gowen, Brookside Golf Course has a tranquil, peaceful location that is ideal for a round of golf. The course opened in 1963 and has been locally owned and operated ever since. The golf course measures to a manageable 6,100 yards from the back tees, a seemingly short course by modern standards. Though it may not be what you're looking for if you want a truly formidable championship course but it provides a good and affordable round of practice. The front nine is slightly less demanding than the back. Overall Brookside Golf Course is gentle enough for beginners with a few strategically placed bunkers to make it challenging. There is also a meandering stream that wanders across a few of the holes.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back | 72 | 5903 yards | 68.7 | 132 |
| Middle | 72 | 5447 yards | 67.1 | 123 |
| Forward | 72 | 5161 yards | 65.7 | 116 |
| Forward (W) | 72 | 5161 yards | 70.5 | 121 |
| Front | 73 | 4552 yards | 66.4 | 115 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 69.5/138 W: 75.5/141 | 350 | 325 | 470 | 145 | 300 | 310 | 440 | 155 | 360 | 2855 | 380 | 165 | 170 | 295 | 510 | 470 | 310 | 310 | 345 | 2955 | 5810 |
| White M: 67.7/127 W: 73.0/136 | 340 | 300 | 450 | 125 | 280 | 280 | 420 | 140 | 315 | 2650 | 350 | 145 | 155 | 285 | 470 | 410 | 300 | 290 | 315 | 2720 | 5370 |
| Yellow M: 64.9/116 W: 69.4/127 | 310 | 255 | 390 | 110 | 240 | 240 | 400 | 95 | 300 | 2340 | 300 | 125 | 140 | 260 | 440 | 330 | 270 | 240 | 300 | 2405 | 4745 |
| Green M: 63.3/109 W: 66.7/118 | 300 | 245 | 310 | 100 | 230 | 230 | 330 | 85 | 290 | 2120 | 260 | 120 | 95 | 250 | 335 | 310 | 240 | 230 | 285 | 2125 | 4245 |
| Handicap | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 16 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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Not the friendliest staff
don’t know how to make drinks, pace of play was super slow
Great work on the tee boxes!!
Lots of work being done with trees and traps. Nice job on tee boxes .Keep it up!
Love them bloody Mary’s
Put some fertilizer down
Continuous improvement!
Always working on improving course. Owners daughter a real peach!
Always improving
Reasonable in todays greedy golf market and the best big Bloody Mary!
Good condition for early year golf.
Local course and very good condition for early in the year. Only problem was a slow foursome holding back about 5 others. But still a good day.
Beginners galore
My family loves this course and we’ve been coming here for decades. Lots of nice memories. Today there were a lot of slow beginners, which made pace of play torture. But that’s what happens when fees are low and the layout is friendly. Still highly recommended.
Nice course
I like this course but they overbooked and weren’t pairing up twosomes it over two and a half hours to play 9 holes. We left after 9.
Disappointing greens
Fairways are nice, greens in rough shape. Grille not open on a holiday weekend. Very busy front nine. Wife and I asked to play the back. It was wide open, told no. Don't see us going back.
Upset Patrons.
Staff was great. Course was fun. Reachable par 4’s with small greens to protect the low score. Course got a little backed up due to an early morning scramble. Fine by me, it was a beautiful Friday. They say a bad day of golf is better than a good day at work: Everything was good until I accidentally hit into the group in front of us. (First time) apparently it was the 4th to them: I saw a group of carts head towards the green on a par five and was playing the tips. I hit my ball and sailed it down the fairway only to realize that there might have been a group still in play. Of course here they come, back over the hill to which I could not see them. at which point one cart did come all the way back to the box and I was approached quite aggressively by a patron. I apologized. Let them continue. They were having a bad day because they were waiting so much and were bored apparently they skipped the last few holes of their 9 and left. I went to look for my ball which I knew would be nowhere to be found, took my gallery drop, set it on the green and knocked down the eagle putt. Can’t rattle this guy on a beautiful day.
More and more improvements every time I golf here
They keep working on little things at this golf course, which is good to see making it a lot more enjoyable. Oh, they finally refilled the sand trap in front of the green on the second hole. I’m putting up a little approved tea boxes, calling Internet, trimming trees, making some tight holes little bit more, easier to negotiate and putting in some ““ curb appeal with some Belgian blocks here and there on the tea boxes. I just kind of nice little improvements, so so is the fact that I scored another fantastic deal it was just so cheap on GolfNow that it was almost frills, put it that way, so with my golf pass points and so forth Actually put it on a nice cool Monday, July 1 and got hooked up with a nice older couple who are members there on the back nine it was quite slow and busy but that’s understandable holiday week coming up, so yeah I recommend the course it’s not excessively long but if you pull it from the tips, the blues, which I did this time it’s Scott Scott challenge for long headers. Don’t let it for you and lotta character so I’ll see you again.
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