Tour 18, Humble, TX

I played Tour 18 on June 7, 2013. The course was in good shape but it took over 5 hours to play 18 holes. No marshal on to be found. Tee time 9:12am and did not finish until 2:14pm. It was a Thursday!!!!! There's no excuse for 5 hour play time!!!!

This course is long, challenging and almost always jam-packed. So plan extra time to play here. 4.5 hours minimum. Their rates are too high, even for the high-quality of the course. But if you can catch a discounted tee time and/or get the free breakfast/lunch/drinks offer they usually run during the week, this course can be an excellent value (and the food, a buffet style, is surprisingly good!). Their service is usually very good. TV golf fans will enjoy comparing these "copy" holes to the real thing.

When I went to play this course, all I have heard are great things but when I got to the first tee I was kind of wrong. This course used to be great according to my friends (they played it years ago) and I could see they were right (for back then). The course now wasn't in that great of shape. The fairways were spotty with dead grass, the greens were sandy and I just didn't have a good time. The guy that checked our reciepts was like heres your cart and thats about it. I asked him which way to the first tee and he just pointed towards it without another word. The guy inside was very nice though and couldn't have asked for better service from him. It also wasn't very good of them not to have a food/drink cart driving around for the players because it was 98 degrees out and the water was scarce on the holes. Overall I wasn't very impressed with the course. Hopefully if I do play there again it will be in better shape and ran more professionally.

Wow was I pumped up to play this course. I thought it was going to rate up there with some of the nicest courses I've played. Quite the opposite was true. Fist off carts were old and worn out. The other cart in our group died on #12. The maintenance was far from acceptable for a green fee of this magnitude. I don't mind paying $70 but I expect good tee boxes, not dirt and dead grass only. Luckily we didn't spend much time in the bunkers but the ones we were in had little sand and it was very hard. Tall weeds were growing all around the bunkers and throughout the course and cart paths. There were two positives on the entire course. The greens were in decent shape and of course the layout. Other than that, I wouldn't go back to Tour 18 for half the current price. Very disappointed.