Gator Lakes Golf Course

I know a 3 star review might not seem great, but this course is solid. The biggest downside for me is the pace of play is always a funeral dirge. They stack too many tee times so it consistently takes well over 4.5 hours to play. Also the bar/restaurant hours don't make sense/ I feel like it's never open. Besides that, it's a great value course. Fun layout, target golf, decent greens, top tracer bays (range buckets kinda pricey). All in all it's just fine.

We came down to the sunny state from MI for the month of February and this course met our expectations ☀️ when we are in the area agin we will be back to visit. We even saw some alligators sun bathing on a chilly day.

Poor greens, no fringe to chip from, poor dried out fairways.

Nice layout. Some challenging holes with water. Greens were fast and receptive to shots.
It was off season, so not a lot of grass. I don’t know if that improves in the summer or not. It was fairly wet as well. It snowed here about a week ago. The wetness may be due to that or it just may be a low lying area.
****If you are a civilian, you need a pass from the visitor center prior to playing. This takes 30 minutes to an hour***
I don’t live in FL, so I had to have a tee time it’s them waited 45 minutes to get a one day pass. I couldn’t get more days unless I received approval from the golf course manager.
So, arrive early at VCC before your tee time.

I still will likely try to play it again. In expensive and not crowded when I was there.

Teke is great! He has always been able to accommodate our time to play! The course layout really works well with our type of play...Maintenance has done a great job with keeping the course in playable condition as I know how budgetary restraints can be a factor...Playing weekends can be a bit slow but with a beautiful layout that Gator Lakes has that is not on issue on a Sunny Day...Thank you Gator for great memories! Steve and Marnie

Greens are poor, no fringe at all: can't make a spinny chip shot.
Fairways are poor and completely dried out.

Course is nice. Got behind a group of 6. Someone needed to let smaller groups go ahead of them. We weren’t in a hurry but some were.

It was tight driving off most tees. There are many, many, many very tall pine trees close together along both sides of most fairways and underneath these pines are loads of gnarly roots so all this makes getting back to the fairway or advancing the ball difficult. I had several terrible lies under these trees and some bad hops hitting tsome of those roots when trying to get out and having to keep the ball low. The tees, fairways and green surounds were mostly mowed weeds. The greens were pretty good as was the bunkers.

It's a great course. Great value for the money. I understand that this is a military base but the restaurant was closed when we made the turn which was about 2:30pm.

Greens are terrific. Fairways look like centipede or something like and are a refreshing change from the local bermuda.

Great course - BUT it is on Hurlbutt Field - meaning you have to be a military member to get on - if you bring a guest - they have to go to the visitor center to get a pass - all time consuming.

Uber can get on - if the driver does not have a record on their file. Had one that did and was rejected at the gate.

Worth playing - just be prepared!