Wasioto Winds Golf Course — Local services in Pineville

For golfers that don’t mind a little drive, there are two Kentucky State Park courses that are close enough to make a quick, two-day trip; Wasioto Winds Golf Course at Pine Mountain State Resort Park and General Burnside Island Golf Course in Burnside Kentucky. The courses are less than two hours apart and if you include a stay at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, your drive to each course is about an hour.

At Wasioto Winds, the front nine is a lot tighter and requires several target golf shots. It’s especially challenging if you’ve never played the course before. There is a lot of roll and undulation in many of the fairways and several greens too. Over the first several holes, you get the idea that most of the trouble is on the left side. The water short of the green on the left on the first hole is reachable off the tee and the creek all down the left side on the second hole will help you keep the ball right. The 5th hole is a short par 5 – 434 yards from Tee 2 – but requires accuracy off the tee with water and wetlands on either side and an accurate layup shot into a narrow fairway with water left and the mountain on the right. Two good shots will leave a short pitch shot into a green that slopes right to left towards the water.

The back nine is more open and considerably longer than the front – over 400 yards from Tee 2. A lot of the difference in distance is made up on the par 5s, which both play over 500 yards. Wasioto Winds Golf Club offers some beautiful views from the elevated 12th tee box and the front tees of the 13th hole. The front nine is also a little different in that there are three par 5s, 3 par 4s, and 3 par threes.

Both of these courses are currently undergoing bunker renovations and are in the process of switching over to “Better Billy Bunker,” the best-draining bunker system in the golf industry. It may take a while for the installation to be complete but it’s well worth the wait.

For golfers that plan on playing multiple rounds of golf over the year at the Kentucky State Parks, you may want to consider purchasing a Trail Card which gives you access to many courses across the state within the Nation’s Finest Park System. A lot of these courses have been recognized nationally by Golf Digest. The Trail Card can be purchased at any of the Kentucky State...

To be fair, this rating is based partly on my experience and partly on the quality of the course. First and foremost, the course was in decent shape and green were great. It had a few spots where that were water-logged but probably stayed that way because of limited time on the sun due to the mountain shade. Price was a tad high for a state park public course, but all things considered the view made up for it.

Now for the experience...play was slow. Really slow. Hardly anybody on the course and my foursome played behind another foursome that took almost 3 hours to play nine! When we made the turn, we just decided to play the front again rather than wait....bummer, but not the end of the world...until...

Mowing Maintenance crew did a pass by our cart mowing on hole #2 (second time around) and blew grass all our cart. Phone, drinks, etc covered in grass.

On hole #4 (second time around) after having gotten reasonably cooled off from being awash in grass, the cart started sounding/smelling funny. Opened up the seat and everything was drenched in oil because the oil cap blew off. Our other buddies went back to clubhouse to fetch another cart and have them tow ours back.

After that, we said the heck with it and hit the road...felt like we should have gotten a raincheck or refund, but no dice...

Outside of the issues mentioned above, not a total bomb of a day on the course, I'll probably be back and roll the...

Have enjoyed this golf course many times over the years. I'm especially delighted that after this last round of devastating floods they are able to get the course in such great shape. Here are a few highlights.

The store has plenty of balls, tees, and shirts. I bought a nice Titlest hat today for reasonable money. They offer alcohol and non alcoholic beverages as well as snacks to carry on your cart. The carts are new and have ample gas powered motors to handle to 18 holes. Driving range as well.

The course itself is the true gem. All 18 holes offer challenge and creative design that will improve your game. My favorite hole is 6 where you have a par 3 over water to imagine your big hole in one.

Overall this is the best course...