Gus Wortham Golf Course

Great spot in the city to golf. Very reasonably priced.

For the price, the location and the layout, you can’t beat it. It doesn’t have the fancy amenities as Memorial, but where that lacks it sure makes up for a elevation intense and overall fun course to play on.
You can pretty much get a tee time whenever. The course is in damn good shape considering it probably doesn’t get as much money as others. You can tell they are making improvements.
Pack a cooler with beer (again another plus) and head on out and give it a whirl.

I like playing golf at Gus Wortham. The terrain is its best feature. It has about a mile of bayou bordering or running through it and steep hillsides lead down to those. Compared to the city, which is flat, flat, flat, this outlandish relief, which will on some holes set you to huffing and puffing if you’re a walker, is just amazing.
Move my townhouse onto that golf course — on a hillside, looking down to the bayou and across to the downtown skyline — and it would be worth a couple million bucks. The city can give you that same view for $ 23 when you play Gus Wortham golf course — try it!
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Nice layout but clearly has some big faults. There was a 5-​some ahead of us which was very slow (I gather they were friends with the starter as I doubt they normally allow groups of 5) plus having 220-​yard par 3’s slows down play. Greens were erratic condition with some having brown patches and an unusual grass growing. BTW there are no refreshmemnt carts or is there a snack bar in the pro shop. Also I had trouble putting tees in the tees box as the ground was so hard.

The second best course if terrain is the determining factor (Wild cat being the best).
Located on the Eat side of town Near UH central campus, another City of Houston operated Golf park. While not long by any means, there are some really well designed holes, and very scenic views for a slightly ran down 18 holes.
Blue: 6270
White: 5634
Red 5322
This is pretty much the Bomb and gauge course for us (Bust the driver and scrape home with a wedge) except hole #1. The sand traps are like concrete bowls at times, and the greens with more dead spots than the Arizona landscape.
But this is fun, and totally un-​Houston as you have to adjust for elevation! The view of the cemetery on a dog Right Par 4 in spectacular, The dramatic drop and then a surging green past the creek on 7 and 18 provides a nice contrast to the salt flat golf in the area.
Pros:
You can use clubs as ski poles when too inebriated to tread the hilly terrain.
Lots of trees and water to keep things interesting on bets.
You can go Way Left and Right and still win the hole (did it twice!).
Cons:
Moon crater inspired greens (On a few of them but oddly not all, Practice green in especially good shape).
Odd combo of really short and Long Par 3’s.

We played this past Saturday early before the heat and birds were out about 7ish, twosome. The course is decent for a muni, its not Memorial but for a little over $ 30+ what can you expect. The greens were decent, not fast but there was one — hole #2 — is really bad — hit it short and you will be ok. There are a couple of water jugs on the course which are free. The pace was pretty decent given there were few people on the course. I would definitely play again as we are playing this weekend. The fairways could be better but as stated its a muni — which the city is now thinking about revising policies in order to stop the blood (money) loss happening at other city courses. If your looking for a Memorial type of course this is not it, its more like a diamond in the rough, takes time to develop and in years to come, watch it blossom. Staff has always been kind. Usually meet pretty decent people at this course, at least I have been luck perhaps to be paired-​up with nice individuals.

Decided to check this place out because I had a coupon. It has been my least favorite experience in the Municipal Park circuit so far. The course was in surprisingly decent shape, but that was not enough to give this place 3 stars or more.
The layout is adjacent to a major road, so on several occasions, you are hitting right next to the street. If your off shot is a slice, you could easily hit a car. Also Mason is right, beware of the bum on the 2^nd hole. He will try to steal your ball and then sell it to you. These issues, honestly don’t bother me. What bothered me about Gus Wortham, was the lack of golf etiquette that we saw on the course. Now we understand this is a Municipal, but after a while, enough is enough.
First of all, no one will let you play though. Despite how bad they are or how slow they are playing, the 4some and another 2 some had no concept of letting someone play though. I was with my wife and it would have taken us no more than 10 minutes to pass them. Then there was the random 2 guys driving around looking for open holes to play on. And don’t forget the guy that wants to play everyhole with 2 balls.
Ok, so I may have come on an off day. But I would definitely recommend Sharpstown and Brock park over this place, if you are looking for a cheap golf experience. Will I come back? Probably, but it is way down on my list.

I am always on the lookout for cheap golf. I am also always looking for places to support that are on the East Side of town (my side).
The issue here is that it is not value golf… it is just cheap.
I like a challenge, I do, but this place was difficult just because the golf course was so badly maintained and laid out. The greens were way too small, and ran away from the fairway. They were also incredibly under-​watered, so it was like hitting onto a cement ramp tilting away from you. It was impossible to stop the ball near the green, even when I did hit a great shot. That makes a course annoying to me.
Oh, the fact that I saw at least 8 abandoned shopping carts in the water hazards didn’t impress me either.
I want this place to be better, I really do.

*Bum steals balls on second hole
*Fairways never in good shape
*Cheap