Reviews of The Ponds Golf Course (Golf)

Chip Richards

Love the layout, 3 nines, well maintained, friendly clubhouse and restaurant staff. Bring an extra sleeve or two of balls...

Chris James

Busy! A little too crowded. To be expected it was a great day for golf. Overall course seemed to be in pretty good condition.

shawn hougo

Beautiful course. Very challenging. Well run. Very friendly staff. Course was in decent condition but I've seen it better. That didn't detract from the beauty of this place. Definitely coming back; again and again.

Robert Detenancour

Have the Friday night fish fry and also played bingo, it was a nice experience.

Jody D Gustafson

Very good

Charles Brandee Speckman

Tough course, for a infrequent golfer, but a nice course in general. Short 1 star as beverage cart did not come around until holes 8,10,17 and also stopped us on the green, rather then catching us at the tee box so it not only slowed our group, but the 2-3 groups that were behind us.

Doug Gramstad

Very nice course.

don bridge

Not for the faint of heart. Lost 12 balls. Very difficult course however better to play off the red tees. Lots of marsh areas to hit over.

Erik Hughes

Great food and enjoyed the 2 for 1s.

Tim Anderson

I have been going to The Ponds for years and love it. The pace of play has always been great because they have 3 9's to keep the traffic moving. The red 9 is the hardest with some dumb pin placements but white and blue 9 are awesome

Mark Goodwin

Very good course.friendly staff

Lori Cockayne

Bad service

Dago Email

The Wife and I drove up from the metro area on a Sunday to play The Ponds just after lunch for the first time with some friends that live in this area. The course is average, nothing special and the staff seems to not have a clue in the Pro Shop. Not only will I never play here again I also will never recommend this course mostly due to the pricing. As it states on their website "We use a dynamic pricing strategy for our tee times." I guess this means overcharging for the caliber of course they provide. The 2 of us played only 9 holes with a cart and somehow with “dynamic” pricing this cost over $80. I initially thought that maybe it was just a mistake we were charged for 2 18 hole rounds and a cart, but sadly I was incorrect. The 2 of us frequently play several courses within the Twin Cities metro and pay 80-100 for 18 holes with a cart. One of our favorite Semi-Private courses in Woodbury charges $94 for 2 people playing 9 holes with a cart and it’s worth every penny. How this small town course can charge nearly the same rate for 9 when considerably nicer courses in a larger metro area can charge just slightly more for 18 holes per player with a cart is beyond me. This course is not nice enough to justify the price.

Drew Oliverius

Great course, very well maintained

Rayna Keniston

Very good food, good prices, golf

Carlie Leitner

Great deal for members, but they need a ranger or someone to enforce slow play.

Dylan Thompson

Good sand and sloping greens with cheap greens fee's

Cspaz 3482

Fun course.

Jerome Hoffman

Course is difficult and not well maintained. Bring lots of golf balls!

Julie Swinda

3 different 9's so you can change up. Nice challenging course

James Jones

For the price they keep up the up keep better than reasonable courses:)

Albert Garza

Great food awesome staff can't wait to come back!!!

Jim Lecy

Great food and service.

Mike Gough

The North Side hidden JEM. 3 9 hole courses to choose from. Wonderful staff!!!

Corey Mueller

Nice course. Very challenging.

Jerry Risberg

Course was in good shape and rough was cut low enough so you can find your ball reasonably. A little pricey but what course isn't now days. Greens were fair and super fast.

Garrett Isaacson

The maintenance crew must have been on strike this week. With the amount of grass growing into the cups they must have not been changed in a week. I didn't bring a sledge hammer to putt with out here. There's so much potential for a stellar course.

Thomas Kase

All I did was way in the restaurant. That was enough. I ordered the fish and chips. The fish was average, but the fries were overcooked and nearly burnt.

KASEY LINDALA

Great bartenders

Ted Thull

Nice, but the bar/dinning room is very loud for the amount of people talking?

John O

Awesome course love the Monday special

Gary Sather

Lots of long forced carries. If you can't hit it straight or in the air, bring lots of ammo.

C ShellTrack

The new clubhouse is great! 2 for 1s all day everyday! Great food! It's not your average bar food, It's better. The fried mushrooms are so good! I've tried several menu items from appetizers to entrees and haven't had anything I didn't like! There's always a good fun crowd in there. They got pull tabs. The patio in the summertime is so nice! They got 3 different 9 nine hole courses and all are a good challenge and fun!

Collette Tompkins-Bell

Food was great. Pulltabs sellers are very friendly.

mike leitner

Slow play

David Buchanan

Better then average. Not a "City" golf course.

Peter Zenner

Course was in great shape, nice facilities. Played the white and red courses. First few holes of the white course can be intimidating, but definitely fun. Greens rolled true and fun to putt on. Will definitely be back.

Steven Ostrom

Difficult course. Lots of water hazards, many requiring straight drives over 150 yards. With the high winds today, our group of four golfers lost 15-20 golf balls. The club house food was pretty good, with excellent service.

Kevin Kaliszewski

Great course, the staff are friendly and with 21 holes you can almost always walk on and play

Jerome glass

Good food, understaffed. Had fish Fry

Pete Pup

I personally don't care for this type of wetlands golf course. Staff is usually very nice to work with.

Mike Korluka

Will maintained course, always in great shape

J Huberty

Really well kept course with nice greens and a good price. Kind of out of the way but worth it. John Huberty, Anoka

Christine Niskanen

Great burger!

Alan Johnson

Average food, typical high school waitress lacks experience. In an effort to make their burgers different from the rest they make them meatball shaped..... Don't care for it.

Donald Olesen

Food was great.

Matthew Larson

Great golf course will definitely be back

Tyler Look

Have had a terrible experience so far this year!! The owner really needs to pull his head out of his ass and start realizing it's more then just a few people that he's pissing off. I'm a first time member and it was a great deal $300. But this membership is a $1000 dollar membership and there is no way you will ever get your moneys worth for that price if you like to play with a cart. There charging $18 dollars for the cart to play 18 holes. My buddy who's not a member was charged $25 dollars for 18 holes and a cart. Let me do some simple math here I would half to play 142.86 rounds of golf just to break even for a $1000 dollar membership. Now let's get to the staff that works there. The younger adults are excellent friendly and easy to get along with. The manager though wasn't very friendly. Accused me of playing on blue 9 when I was actually on the driving range. I'll be giving my money to a different course next year.

Doug Christianson

Good people, reasonable rates. Some awesome holes on this course!

Ric True

They have made a nice upgrade in atmosphere and menu. Best walleye sandwich crispy on outside and moist inside.

Cheryl Kanten

Great food and entertainment

Jay Vivone

Awesome Food!

DAUNTE VIVONE

Food was great! The chef is simply Amazing ballz!

amanda korbel

Awesome staff! Friendly service.

Angie Mcanally

Isle of the walleye service is impeccable

Brian Sandberg

Nice golf course for the money

Aj 15

Fun place to play. Grounds are kept up nicely.

linda Palmquist

Don't waste your time, unless you enjoy playing golf in people's backyards! it was my first time at the ponds,and it will be my last. I bought a groupon and when i checked in to play,the attendant charged another fee for tax, never had that happen on a groupon before. Condition of course was a 5 out of 10 at best, I won't be back! Not enjoyable!

Dave Smith Jr.

Hard course but they always get you on in a pinch. Never had to wait there during walk ins

Robin Gauvin

Decent prices and good food. Waffle fries and seasoned sour cream too, mmmmm

Mary Miller

Great food. And a nice change in food.

Kyle Torfin

Beautiful course with some very challenging holes hitting blindly over water.

Steve Stowers

I loved this course. Pretty challenging, and it was in great shape. The new restaurant that they opened the day before was just OK for food, but I will go back to that course again soon.

Becky Odella

Service wasn’t the best and I got my food after everyone had already eaten theirs.

Tyler Horton

Sprinklers are on while we're golfing, major mud hole on the course mind you right where the sprinklers were on at

frank miske III

Winter golf is always good

Scott Swartzendruber

Ok course. Over priced! Beverage cart girl needs some cocktail education!

Myron Barrett

Great

Coleman Elliott

I'm giving this course a 4 for the sole purpose that it has water on nearly every hole and I always love a challenge and is the only reason I drove up there. The 27 hole course could just use some love and care to it. It's on many people's back yards but the beverage cart made more rounds than I've ever seen on a 27 hole course.

gordy miller

It was dead when I got there at 8:30pm but the female bartenders are Super nice and cute to boot. Thanks Girl's

Chad Berseth

Bring extra balls

Jeff Hill

I have been to the ponds many times.This year I decided to buy a membership I wanted to tell you about my experience so far this year.I have been to the course twice so far. The first time, I went to the clubhouse to check in and I listened to the guy behind the counter "Joe" complain in front of other people how he had to answer the phone and check in golfers at the same time.He answered the phone and to tell them to hold, only to never pick the phone back up. I thought he may be having a bad day until my second time at the ponds.I booked a tee time at 12:57 Easter Sunday with my son and four of my nephews. when we arrived.Joe told us he wanted to leave at 4:30 after complaining again about the phones. we got out on the course. When we got to our 10th hole at about 3:45 he came out on the course,told us he was going to close because the golf course was losing money by him being there.He told us we needed to return the carts because he was leaving.I do not understand how you can book a tee time for 18 holes and not let them finish.Some of us had to drive over a hour to get to the course.To top it off, he refunded our party over $150.00 because he wanted to go.The way I see it.The ponds lost a lot more money by making us leave. Its hard to understand why you would have a guy like that running your club house. I sure am going to re-think my membership for next year.

Rob Haldorson

Nice course. Some challenging holes

Gator Washick

The service is Horrible. Last time we were there we sat for 6 minutes and no one came to our table. When we left four other couples followed us out. One couple said they sat there for 10 minutes. We all went to Bradford Roadhouse where dispite the fact they were packed we received immediate service.

Lisa Simning

Came to see a good bartender. Megan!

Alan Flaherty

Recently purchased their new membersbip plan for 250 bucks great deal seems like up front.... however i have been out twice now and have discovered different- what they do is they more than double charge you for the cart if two are in the cart with cards they charge you 28 dollars.Cart fee is 12 dollars posted on line so after some investigation being because im a senior my normal price should be 20 dollars for a cart and nine holes 6 dollar difference now take that and devide that 6 bucks into my new 250 dollar membersbip means i have to golf appx 42 times this summer to break even- realy -dont think I want to know what they charge seniors. For beer lol

Joe Rusinyak

This place rocks!!!

Rob Storbakken

Nice course, unique holes keep it interesting

john s

Awesome golf

Mark Beitz

Has some tough holes, but loads of fun. Greens need some work.

Travis Howard

Though it lacks elevation changes, the scenery of the surrounding wetlands and marshes provide some needed variety. The course was in fantastic shape, an I felt the price we paid was quite the value.