Isle Dauphine Golf Course — Local services in Dauphin Island

The golf course has a lot of potential, but unfortunately they aren’t utilizing any of it. 4 out of the 18 fairways could almost be considered good. There wasn’t a single good green, not even the putting green, to the point I just picked up once I got my ball on the green. None of the tee boxes were good. They were mostly sand with a few tuffs of grass that weren’t even cut short. I would think a beachside golf course would at least have good sand traps, seeing there is sand everywhere , but even those were full of weeds. The lips of the bunkers were over grown with knee high grass. Some of the cart paths were so overgrown that you get hit by limbs driving down them. The course has poor signage (where to go for next hole, also no signage on the club “house”). We gave up on finding it and ended up going in Pirate’s to ask them. As for the positive, the course wasn’t busy and didn’t have to wait on any holes to tee off, unfortunately I think that is due to the conditions. I’ve played several beachfront golf courses and this by far ranks the lowest. $45 seemed pretty cheap before experiencing the course, but after it is too high for the course we played. I understand a course can lose the greens for a year, whether it be disease or burnt out, but there’s no aspect of the course that is in good shape. I wouldn’t recommend playing here. I think you would be less frustrated playing putt putt than attempting to roll a straight putt across the greens here. I’m sorry for seeming harsh, but it doesn’t even appear to be a work...

Had our wedding at the isle of dauphine, would not recommend it to ANYBODY! Just to rent out the place for one day is $2,000. Then if you get him to cater, he doesn't give you any kind of estimatent before hand, he waits until 2 days before the actual wedding and tells you how much it is and expects you to pay it in a matter of hours (in our case it was $8,000 and we provided half the food ourselves, and that doesn't include rehearsal dinner which was $1,500). They did not provide any napkins, once the napkins we brought ran out our guests had to go into bathrooms and get paper towels and toilet paper. They only provided plastic forks and spoons. Ran out of drinks within an hour, the bride had to get a cup and fill it with tap water. We were told to have the venue cleaned out by 2 the next afternoon but nobody let us in until 1:30. Also our wedding planner who has done many weddings said it was the most unprofessional venue she has...

Well....the course is nowhere near a quality course. Sand everywhere, greens are horrendous, but sadly we kinda expected that. On to th3 good stuff....the employee was pleasant...even though the prices for what you play on are absolutely unreasonable. Rented clubs were fine, charged us $1.50 for rehash golf balls...its definitely close to a golf scam, save your money and play elsewhere, unless you just understand, that the putt putt course on the island is gonna put this place to shame. We did however make.some memories....I get that the course is under fairly new management, and they are working on it....but I shouldn't have to pay semi-private course prices for a course that is embarrassing to the game of golf....charge accordingly until you get...