Raven Golf Club — Local services in Miramar Beach

Not a good experienced. We paid $180 for a Tuesday tee time. We get there and they tell us that all the snack bars and grills are closed the whole day, but that they had a cart girl supposed to be coming around with sandwiches and hot dogs. I called the clubhouse after hole 7 to ask if they could send the cart girl out to us since we hadn’t seen her yet and they told me the 1 cart girl was servicing 2 separate courses, so “she would get there when she got there”. They also had an attitude when I called because is calling the pro shop to ask if we could get some food or drinks was such an inconvenience. We end up playing 11 holes before we actually ever saw the cart girl and she didn’t have any sandwiches or hot dogs. Only crackers, peanuts, snickers, and drinks. That was the only time we saw her the whole round and she also had an attitude when we did see her. They also don’t have ANY water fountains, or jugs with water anywhere on the course for you to fill up a water bottle, so you’re dying of thirst the whole time. Not ideal when you are playing golf in Florida in the summertime. We had to wait 11 holes just to get some water from the cart girl. The starter was also rude to us after we finished our round because one of our carts stopped working on 18 and the reverse also didn’t work but I guess that was probably our fault too. We paid WAY too much money for their whole staff to be that rude and also not be able to enjoy any amenities like getting a simple hot dog or water. Will not be...

I really liked this golf course. The fairways were like carpet. The greens had been sanded like so many Southern courses do in the summer. At least they were not aerated. We looked on line and their maintenance schedule was posted. Although they were sanded, putts rolled pretty true. They were a little slow up hill and pretty quick downhill. It was just a nuisance cleaning your ball after every putt. There was a little more room to hit it on the front. I thought the back was several shots harder. The Par 3’s were short and the Par 5’s were long. I thought it was a great layout with a little of everything. We were well received at the bag drop, Pro Shop, and Starter. Everyone was friendly. There were several bathrooms on the course and the “cart girl” came by several times. There’s a snack bar between 9 and 10 since the course does not route back to the clubhouse. We had a 7:40 tee time and didn’t get to hit any balls because we were told the range was closed due to it being too wet from the storm that came through earlier. It was actually open , but it hadn’t been communicated back to the Pro Shop. By the time we were told it was open, it was our tee time. Lastly, the Pro Shop had some nice shirts but probably 50% of the sizes were XL. There were only a couple of mediums in the place. So that was a little disappointing If I could give this 4 1/2 stars I would. The greens were really about the only thing holding us back from a 5 star playing experience. It...

I was looking forward to play this course three days ago. There were both positives and negatives. It was definitely a beautiful course and challenging for sure.

Practice range definitely needs some work.

We were behind two slow groups on the front nine that had everyone backed up and waiting in between every shot. The tough thing was it was a twosome that was holding three groups up. This is definitely not a beginners course.

We thought it would get better on the back nine because the groups did not play through. Nope, another slow foursome that had us waiting between shots. They left midway and we thought there was some hope of finishing this course before dark at this point. But we had to wait for another group on 16a. We are not even sure where they came from.

Since there was a hole on the front nine that had some work being done and it was closed, they wanted us to play 16a and 16b to make up for it. (We hit two balls each on 8 to make up for the closed hole since there was no make-up instructions on the closed hole so we only played 16a)The problem is one in our group misjudged the distance on 16a and hit into the group teeing off on 16b right behind the green.

It was like people were doing shot gun starts on the back nine the way they just appeared and disappeared from the course.

If the course had not been so nice I would have given the...