Texas Outside review of Woodbridge Golf Club

Date Played: October 27, 2007
Front Nine Rating: 8.0 Stars
Back Nine Rating: 8.5 Stars
Approximate Weekend Price Range: $19.00 to $51.00
Brief Description:
In 2006 the Dallas Morning News rated Woodbridge as #20 in their Top 25 Best Daily Fee Courses -- and we think it deserves a much higher rating than #20. Woodbridge is an outstanding course and a superb value. The course offers excellent variety, some very challenging holes, lots of water, and plenty of other hazards. It is usually in very good condition, the bunkers have good sand, and the greens are true. The terrain is flat, well treed, and well landscaped.

During play, Woodbridge doesn't seem that hard, but at the end of the day when you look back and review your score, count the balls you lost, and think about some of the bunkers you landed in, you'll realize how fun and how challenging this course really is. It requires good club selection and course management. There are a number of tough approach shots to greens that are well protected. If you want to score well, either bring your "A" game or move up a tee box and just have fun being outdoors with your buds and don't worry about scores.

The fairways are consistently in very good condition, the roughs are cut about right, and the fairways are well maintained and landscaped. The greens seem to be a little larger than normal and have plenty of undulation and slope. When we last played they were all in very good condition, about average speed, and pin placement made some puts really tough.

Woodbridge is an excellent value - there aren't many courses of this quality that you can play for $19 to $51! Woodbridge is offering Texas Outside visitors a special deal - check out their coupon on this page. This is a must play course. Note - new pictures will be added soon, the current pictures were taken when the course was very arid during the 2006 drought.

Here's How Texas Outside Determines the Scorecard Rating

The Texas Outside rating scale ranges from 1 to 10 – a perfect 10 course would be something like this: links along a cliff overlooking the Pacific ocean and bordered by tall trees; lush fairways on rolling hills with lots of natural hazards; water (which is crystal clear) on most of the holes; immaculate greens (but they are undulating and tough); lots of variety and character (each hole is completely different and includes blind shots, elevation changes, doglegs, and significant challenges); perfectly manicured traps with the whitest and prettiest sand you’ve ever seen; a nice club house with great food and a 19th hole; a GPS; plenty of beverage carts or your own cooler and ice; and it only costs $40 bucks! What this means is that you probably won’t find any 10s in Texas – try Cabo San Lucas, Pebble Beach, or some of the Hawaii courses!
Texas Outside rates courses on the following:

Beauty – tall trees, rolling hills, beautiful houses, waterfalls, and similar stuff would score high; a 1 would be flat, bushes or cactus instead of trees, and some grass but mostly weeds

Difficulty – a straight, 300 yard par 4 with no traps or hazards, no out of bounds or water would probably get a 1; if it is a 460 yard par 4 over two ravines, with water along one side, natural hazards on the other, strategically placed traps or that dreaded tree right in the middle of the fairway, we are talking a 10.

Variety – what would you give a course where all the holes looked and played exactly the same (“I thought we just played that hole!”); were side-by-side, which is good for finding or dodging other people’s balls, but not much fun; and you can see the flag from every tee box? That’s right, it gets a 1.

Fun Scale – a 10 is where you walk off the course and say “now that was fun” and you can’t wait to get back, or you immediately turn around and play another 18 holes

Value – a 5 is $50 to $60, a 10 is $20 to $30, and 1 is $200 or so – of course all of this is dependent upon how you liked the course. For example, if a run down, boring municipal course, with six players on each hole was only $10; it would still get a value rating of 1.

Condition – this one’s pretty easy – what condition are the fairways. A 10 commands very lush perfectly manicured fairways, compared to a 1, which has fire ants, weeds, and more dirt than grass!

Condition of Greens and Difficulty – very hard to read greens with lots of undulation and tough pin placement, rate very high on the difficulty scale. Condition is self-explanatory.

All of the above determines the overall score for the golf course. In other words, we like courses that are pretty, fun, very challenging with a lot of variety, and fairways and greens in excellent condition – all for $40. We also tend to play the courses that are affordable for the masses, which means in the $30 to $80 range. We rate hard and we haven’t found a 10 in Texas yet – don’t worry we haven’t given up and we’re still looking.