Jersey Meadow Golf Course Review

The Houston Golf Nut played the Jersey Meadow Golf Course for the first time this past weekend with a couple of buddies (and just realized I’m referring to myself in 3rd person) .

When I first looked at the course layout, it looked like a lot of trees might be in the forecast, but that really wasn’t the case.  The golf course is much more open than it looks on this:

Jersey Meadow can be challenging off the tee, but only sometimes.  Hole 3 from the blues you need to hit your drive through a narrow opening between the trees to escape into the fairway.  Hole 5 has water in play from the tee box.  If you go right, you better hit it.  Hole 10 (could be named No Slice Zone) offers out-of-bounds to anything right and trees to the left.  Hole 14 plays tight off the tee with houses on the right (sheeeee-it, figures – my only slice of the day) and water on the left.

This course offers a decent amount of water, intimidating players on 12 holes.  Hole 8 you can play it safe and lay up to the 150 yard marker or let it rip and have a long chip to the green.  You need to carry water off the tee on Hole 18 and also on your approach shot.

What sucked the worst about this course was the mosquitoes!!!  Don’t forget to bring your Off.  Luckily, one of our guys had some and it might have saved our lives.  Bloodsuckers weren’t as bad after the turn, but maybe by that time we had lost enough blood where our brains weren’t noticing it (maybe that’s why we shot better too!).

Sunday morning rate was $47 with a cart, so not too shabby.  Course played pretty quick… 4 hours on the dot (we were squeezed between 2 foursomes).

Pretty good location for us because we had one from Katy, one from Spring, and one from Houston.  Right off of 290, so pretty easy access.  Bottom line: course was challenging, but not too challenging, priced well, no slow-play, but bring your Off.  We’ll be back.