Marriotts Grand Pines Golf Club

Driving range is small, bag of balls included in price. Pace of play was very slow, 5 hours, on a Saturday. Course has some challenging holes, bunkers around all greens that are deep. They need another set of tees between white and red as one is a little long and the other too short.

Bunkers were a problem as some have good sand and some are too grainy. Need another set of tees for old folks, reds are too short in some cases so I played a combo.

Have played many other courses in the Orlando area. This was my 1st time playing Grand Pines, and I didn't quite know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised that it's layout is much more intriguing than most resort courses. In fact the friendly player assistance ranger I spoke with for a few moments informed me that: "it's really not a resort course; the layout plays to difficult to be one". I played slightly better than my handicap (18). The rating/slope are higher than average. I found you can score well on this course,if you play smart shots & don't get to greedy. Conditioning is excellent as you should expect from a course in the Disney/Sea World vicinity.

Enjoyable day of golf on graet course conditions.

They had not raked the bunkers in several days and if you had the unfortunate experience of landing in one, you would invariably be is a footprint up to 6 inches deep. Rather miserable.