Southern Hills Golf Course

Wow, November golf. What's not to like. Would like a little more reduction for a senior fall rate. Just think all the money the course made for November/fall golf. Use the extra money to plant some more trees after cutting down all the Ash trees. Should have been planted 5 or 10 years ago. The course is soooo open. Nice sandy traps to hit out of.

Nice layout with outstanding greens. Very reasonable rates. A bit challenging to play on a windy day.

Was excited to play at southern hills. Booked a reservation for 4 people on Thursday night for a Saturday morning tee time. Our 4th golfer came down with covid Friday evening and I found out on my 45 minute drive to the course from white Bear Lake Saturday morning. The person at the desk told me no problem when I checked in. While we were there, we ran into backups on multiple holes, people blaring music, getting yelled at from passing cars while trying to tee off. There was only one stationary beverage cart. All being said, I didn’t feel the need to say anything. Today I checked my bank account and saw I got charged an extra $80 for the guy that was sick. I called and golf shop and explained what happened. He said it was the policy to cancel 24 hours prior. (Remember I booked Thursday night and would have had to cancel Friday morning) and there was nothing he could do. I would avoid playing here at all costs. Because if you have any sort of situation it could cost you more than you think.

My friend, who I was going to play golf with, made a reservation for the two of us. Once we arrived, we were told that two more people would be playing with us. We were never told beforehand that they would be adding people to our group. Due to them doing this, it made us not want to golf at this location. So, therefore, we went to a different golf course. Yet, my friend noticed he was still charged for golfing even though we didn't golf due to the facility's poor communication and adding random people to our reservation. I checked the policies, and there is no policy stating that the golf course could do this. My friend called the facility. The facility blamed him because he did not want to golf with 2 other random people, rather than respecting the reservation that we made. They refused to give him a refund and stated he could come back and play a round. Why would we go back to a facility that doesn't respect our reservation and charge a card that shouldn't have been charged.

Course OK, but made it really difficult to book my 1 players. We play a different course every week and these guy win the prize for most difficult. Won't be back. Also, they had sprinklers going all over in during play. Had to move balls several times. NOT customer oriented.

6/19/20: 12:42 tee time. We were there on what was an unusually busy Monday, a holiday. They seem to handle the customers well even though us old players are a little slower than we should be on the course, especially when shaking the rust off on the first hole. Seriously, I hadn't played for a year and a half, and when you're in your 70's a lot of Mulligans happen. I'd say the course was in great shape. It's the first time I played it. I found it a little hard to read the greens. They look extremely steep, so reading the slope or angle was really hard. When I thought they'd be fast, they were slow. When going downhill the grass seemed to grab my ball, but come to think of it, the same thing happened when going uphill? It seemed like sort of a three dimensional spatial warp on the greens. I think you'd enjoy this course a lot. It isn't overpriced, overdone, or overbearing. I'd go back for sure. Oh, and the ducks and the geese with their babies on the pond were really a treat to watch. 🦆

Played at Southern Hills today. Fantastic! The greens are beautiful, receptive, and fast. The rest of the course is in great shape. Very good pace of play. Friendly staff. What more do you need?

I can not say enough about this Golf course and the staff. My husband's 1 year anniversary of his death was on 6/16/2021. Bob absolutely loved golfing this course and I could not think of a better way to honor his life than to release some balloons from here with my 2 daughters and granddaughters. Not only did they allow us to do this, but they went out of their way to accommodate this and even let us use two of their golf cards. So that we could go out and choose the place that we would like to accomplish this. Thank you again for your compassion and kindness ❤
Sincerely the Dunham family!