North Palm Beach Country Club — Restaurant in North Palm Beach

I went to the NPBCC driving range today, 1/30/18, about 1:45 in the afternoon. The driving lines (plastic cord) were pushed back almost to the bushes and there was little room to walk behind the already practicing golfers. There were no buckets/washers to brush your clubs off, there are usually two and no sign(s) to indicate distances to the colored flags. Paying $18.00 for a large bucket of balls seems rather expensive, so, IMHO, it would be incumbent on the Golf Pro Shop to insure the driving range is at least set up for some reasonable practice expectations. I would rate this driving range as, the NPBCC does not care about their driving range or anyone interested in a minimum standard facility!

Well, someone at the Club most have read my review, because when I returned two days later, all the issues I had identified were corrected. I have used this driving range over two seasons and would bet the golf ball bucket brushes have not been changed in more than five years....you cannot really clean your club using the current brushes in the water buckets......I am really at a loss as to what an effort it take to set up and maintain this driving range so it is consistently in proper order.

Oops, went to the range today, 2/8 at 1000 and there was no drinking water in the stand and there were no distance to the flag boards...usually there are two! Wow, what could be so hard about setting up the driving range. Ok, so you are thinking, why does he go there....well, it is the closest driving range to where I am living....too bad the NPCC is so unable to make the driving range a good place to practice. Dropped my rating...

Beautiful public golf course, have played here since I was a kid. A very hard golf course from the tips if wind is blowing and can be fun if you move up a few tees. Easy off the tee, hitting approaches close to the pin is most important. Green complexes are undulating with many subtle breaks , short game will be challenged. The golf course warrants 5 stars, the staff and regulations remove three. Before the Nicklaus money came in this was a friendly local golf course. Now they think it’s the bears club. Treat patrons as riff raff. The last 3 times I have played in the afternoon this summer we have been kicked off the course not able to finish. Two times for lightning (nearest strike was 20 miles inland) one of those times we sat on the 1st tee for 1 hour without getting a drop of rain and not seeing any lightning. And yesterday on Labor Day for an afternoon shower that “flooded” the course, I was on the course during the rain, hit a putt right after it stopped. It wasn’t flooded. I would normally not leave a negative review but the head pro was a jerk. When the staff asked him what they should tell people coming to play about when it re-opens, head pro said “when it’s dry”. It was a holiday, they should of done everything possible to keep it open. In addition they tried to only give my group a rain check for 9 of our 18 holes. Sad to see money ruin a once great place to learn and play golf. Don’t try to play in the afternoon in the summer as long as they got their super sensitive lightning detector, or god forbid it rains on a sand based course, you won’t be...

After years of coming to this club for tennis frenzy (Bang Bang) and drills and play, I found out today that when they charge your credit card (which they keep on file), there's a 3% upcharge for the privilege. This is NOT disclosed to patrons at the time of payment. I noticed it as I was looking at the form for joining as I'd been asked to be on a team. This is gross misrepresentation and I'm surprised no one has sued them due to this. Their WEBSITE CLEARLY STATES that credit cards will not have additional processing fees. However, they INSIST on a credit card being on file but not everyone sees the member application forms so clients don't realize this is going on when they call to book a class and charged electronically. No other club does this and they should absorb the cost - particularly when they have multiple team members (16 on ea team) all paying upwards of $1800 a season for membership and Pros. Then there's racquet stringing, clothes you buy, drills... This is upsetting, dishonest and bad business practice. When I told the manager, she said she didn't know about the website because she doesn't deal with that. She thought it was fine because the 3% is 'going straight to the credit card company,...