Bridges of Preston Golf Course

This review is for the GOLF only — I absolutely love this course and will gladly make the hour+ drive for a Golfnow hot deal. That being said, the CARTS ARE JUNK. The two times I’ve played here I’ve seen multiple breakdowns and it effects the pace of play when they don’t have the staff to manage the shop and what’s happening out on the course.
The course is sprawling and a heck of a lot of fun to play.

It’s quite a drive for many of us. Challenge with this course is the fairways are all hard pan… they run and you’re hitting tight lies quite often. Greens are OK. The wind up there is quite strong and makes it a bit less enjoyable. Fairly wide open during the week if you can find a GolfNow rate. Weekends are busy. All in all, you can find better options closer in. I can’t recommend it for the shape of the course and distance from DFW. And food offerings in the restaurant are pretty weak. That said, staff is pretty nice.

The course is very nice and I was very excited to get the chance to play it though I didn’t get to enjoy or even finish the front nine.
The grasshoppers are absolutely terrible!!! They’re thousands of them, on the greens, tee boxes, and the fairways. While driving on the cart path they fly everywhere and all over you, it was very gross, I know it’s nature but it made it quite impossible to enjoy.
I don’t know if paying full price is worth it especially with the drive, but when you are able to book on GolfNow and the bugs aren’t bad, it would be a steal.

This is a good course. I wouldn’t make the almost hour long drive up there to pay full price for their greens fee, but for a discount rate on GolfNow it’s well worth the drive. Challenging course for sure, especially the greens. Being in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farmland, it gets windy and there are lots of grasshoppers (usually in July).

I play this course once a year with a group of friends. We’ll worth playing. It can be a bit of a long drive depending on where you are driving from. The hotdog at the club house is worth playing this course.

Above rating is for the course only. For winter conditions (we played 2÷16÷14) fairways and greens were in good shape. It was super windy (20+mph), my 1^st time to play, and I shot an 83… Guys in the pro shop were OK, didn’t think they were going to engage us in any conversation until I joked about the drive up…(from Hurst/​1hr 20 min). Then they shared their driving stories. I enjoy that it is like you are in the country (like Turtle Hill is) The greens were pretty quick and probably the most undulating/​rise & fall that I have ever played. I liked that, just on the putting green I figured putting could give me an extra stroke per hole. We had an Ideal golfer, so a round, with dog/​chips/​drink/​range balls was $ 25…So the price was great for the course! RANGE BALLS: OMG, I think they had a diver collect all the water balls from the ponds, and they put them, unwashed, into service… I don’t use balls that bad (what I call my water balls) when I’m going for a long water crossing. They were dirty, felt hollow, and had almost NO dimples left on them… Cart girl was around frequently, 19^th hole area was pretty bare/​uninviting. Hotdogs just OK. I had been wanting to play this course, not sure if I would make the 2.5 hr round trip from my house again, but if you are in the vicinity, the course itself is worth it.

This was the worst experience I have ever had at a Golf Course. When we arrived the man in the pro shop was extremely rude. There were no other employees in the clubhouse before out tee time so we were unable to get drinks or food before our round. Didn’t realize we needed to eat before we came. It is hard to play when you are hungry. The course was in okay condition. The greens are extremely tough to put. At the turn we were finally able to get some drinks and snacks. The entire time we did not see the cart girl until we were teeing off on 18. The only positive experiences were the hot dogs and the Marshall (Players Assistant).

Would be 5 stars, but the greens on 16, 17 were pitted and not growing out, making a line difficult to manage. I love this course. It’s situated in the middle of a housing development that didn’t develop. The fairway traps and strategically placed tee boxes make this place a fun challenging round. It’s not too difficult because if you miss your not in someone yard or street over because they aren’t there yet. I consider myself a hacker and I love this place. I’ve played it 5 times now. 42 – 45 on the front and the back get harder. Normally on the back I’m 45 – 47 because of some ponds and dog legs that need well placed tee shots. STAY AWAY! I don’t want you slowing me down.

This course is designed by Fred Couples and offers pretty competitive greens fee. Keep in mind that this course is in the middle of freaking no where. Part of the reason is that surrounding lots are meant for houses, but there aren’t many buildings yet. Gunter is pretty far from Dallas Uptown as well. But if you are willing to drive some ways, you will be happy with what you find at Bridges. The course is not crowded and pretty cheap during the busy times.
The layout is pretty open for the most part. Even if you don’t hit balls straight from the tee and you are in trouble, you still have some kind of recovery shot for your next one. This is especially true for the first nine. I find back nine more difficult for some reason, but it could just be me. The course is not necessarily short and there are many holes that rewards those who takes risks. I like the drivable par 4 with difficult green; maybe because I almost drove my ball to the green every time I played. Haha.
Overall, I highly recommend this course.

I had the displeasure of playing this course this past weekend. I live in Frisco and we have an abundance of good golf choices at a reasonable price. However we had some good friends that suggested we play the Bridges. Silly me for thinking that if I was going to drive to the middle of no where and pay $ 54 that it must be a great course. (When I could have stayed in Frisco and payed around $ 30 and had many great course options.) In this economic climate paying $ 50 is a moderately high amount and there is certainly an expectation of the course when you do. Enough about my rant. Regarding the course: In spite of the summer we have just gone through I would still expect a course that considers itself this «caliber» to be well irrrigated and cared for. Not so. The bunkers had little sand in them and what was in them was like concrete, the fairways did not seem to be remotely adequately irrigated. The greens did not seem to be adequately irrigated and the «native areas» between fairways was more just «weeds» than native. Add to that the course has poor directional signage. What this boils down to is if I had paid $ 19 or less for the round I wouldn’t complain, but to drive out to Gunter and pay over $ 50 to play there is an expectation which this course does not remotely live up to.
To summarize, with all the great golf course options in the DFW area at $ 54 a round this course is not remotely one of them.