Windy Knoll Golf Club — Local services in Springfield

My experience was wonderful for my wedding reception at Windy Knoll. First off, Tina was helpful and accommodating throughout my experience, which started a year before the actual reception. She met with my family and me multiple times to go over the details of the wedding, and we were able to make changes to everything until about 2 weeks before the wedding. Tina handled everything very well, especially considering that I was a bit frazzled during the last month before the big day. She also coordinating with my DJ and cake person so that I didn't need to worry about it. -The cost of everything was fairly reasonable, especially considering the room is less than 3 years old! There were also some neat, modern amenities, like uplighting and T.V. screens, both of which added to the decor/personalization of the room. -The food was good, and Tina was willing to let me tweak the menu to suit my preferences. She was even nice enough to allow my grandpa to make a family favorite to serve, his cheeseball. There were multiple compliments on the loaded mashed potatoes (my favorite food item, too). -Though I did not have many drinks, I was told the mixed cocktails were strong---not sure if this is a good or bad thing, just letting others know. I'm sure this varies based on the bartender. -Though the room seemed small to me when I looked at before the day of the wedding, it was comfortably able to fit the 21 tables (8 per table) I needed for my reception. The dance floor was pretty full throughout the night, but never uncomfortably so. -Decorating the day before was the only possible issue I ran into, and even that turned out just fine. We were able to go in the day before and Tina was generous enough to let us stay a little longer than 2 hours when there was a little decorating drama. The chairs are not my favorite, bulky and white, but they are good quality nonetheless. There were also not many tablecloth color selections, but this was definitely not a deal breaker! -Clean-up was taken care of by the staff, who left all the decorations that belonged to my family and I piled on 3 tables for easy pick up the next day, which was a relief and extremely helpful. There were several broken vases, but I don't know if it was the clean-up staff or guest from the reception. As with decorating the day before the wedding, I could see potential issues if there were an event the next day, but this worked out fine for me. -The bathrooms were nice and clean. -I would highly recommend Windy Knoll to other brides looking for a reception in the Springfield area. It looked absolutely beautiful inside, and the windows gave a ton of natural light, even on my rainy April wedding day. I can only imagine how pretty it would have been had the sun been out. Really, I would recommend this place to anyone that has a party of 100-200 people. Looking forward to recommending this place to others...

I normally do not take the time to write reviews on anything, but recently I decided to start giving feedback and reviews since 50% of whether I may play a new course comes from players reviews. So I have decided to break this down into two different reviews, the overall course itself, and then the overall experience itself. From a pure golf aspect, this course gets an absolute 5 rating. It is beautiful, challenging, well maintained, fair, and the greens might be the best public greens that I have ever played on. Large greens, fast, and everyone was in great shape and all consistent with each other. There is not one thing negative I can say about the course itself. From an overall experience, I am going to get a little picky, but I want to preclude that my overall rating of the course and in general was a 5 star rating. My overall experience rating is a 4/5. The Pro Shop was pretty much just a building with not much in it. If you wanted to buy a hat, nice shirt, shoes, gloves, then you can pretty much not worry about it, because they had very little to pick from, if at all. The scorecard is as plain as you can get, however, you are given a color booklet that details everything about the course, the history, course map, and the best part is that it breaks down each individual hole with a description, yardage, green and hole layout. Truly priceless. I have only every seen this twice before at any other course. There were basically no yardage markers on the course. We found 1 on the first hole, but nothing after that. It did not affect us at all since we had GPS on our phones, however if you are playing this course without any type of GPS, you will be out of luck. The markers on the tee boxes need to be upgraded. They were horseshoes since the overall theme of the course is built on the former WIndy Knoll Horse Farm. The horseshoes are just to small, were missing, or needed some paint. This could easily and I think relatively inexpensively be upgraded to make the tee boxes look awesome. So please keep in mind, the overall rating for this course was an absolute 5. We drove from Mason, OH, so it was around 60 minute drive, but this was so well worth it. We have only played this once, but both my son and I agree that Windy Knoll now is ranked in our Top 3 courses that we play, and that expands to the Cincinnati area, Northern Kentucky, and now Springfield. We will most certainly be playing this course again. Thanks for a great...

The banquet staff are unprofessional, incompetent, and racist. Last weekend hey completely ruined the wedding of a lovely couple. They made several racist comments about the mixed race newlyweds and were physically aggressive towards several guests including a disabled child. Their bigotry showed immediately through their service. They took full plates of food away from people in the middle of eating. They took away the bride and grooms full drinks during their first dance. They threw away dozens of party favors people had put at their tables with their belongings. They took away people's water glasses before the cake was cut and then refused to provide more. And this was all within the first two hours of a 10 hour reservation. When people complained, the staff then threatened several people with physical violence, grabbed people's arms, and viciously grabbed an 8 year old boy with autism because he dropped an empty paper cup. The attendees were mostly comprised of older people and families with young children. Not a single person was intoxicated, nor children out of control. Everyone was in complete shock the entire event because of the staff's behavior. The wedding party shut down the event at 8pm, a full 6 hours before the contractually agreed ending time. All guests were gone by 845. After this the staff called the police and made a false report and then slandered the couple in a news article with details that are absurdly untrue. The staff should be prosecuted for assault of a minor and the owner should compensate the couple for ruining their...