Buffalo Creek Golf Course

This is one of the heaviest played courses in the area. It has been packed all season. Beside slow play, a few tee boxes are pretty chopped up and a couple of greens having to be repaired because some fool had drove on them, it has been fairly well maintained. This is one of my favorite layouts so it's nice to see the crew put in the extra effort. The staff is always friendly and Jessica in the snack bar (14 yrs. !!!) is always a joy. I am looking forward to summer when I will again have the course all to myself.

Friendly staff, tough holes, diverse course.

Can’t go wrong with Buffalo Creek.

played the last two weekends and both rounds were 4:30 to 5:00 hours plus, waited on every hole. great course and friendly staff, they need to make sure the rangers keep the morning groups on a clock to ensure solid pace of play. never had an issue before with pace of play. not enjoyable.

Nice layout, bette than good greens and avg tboxes. Fairways ok but needs watering and more grass. Carts clean and working good.

Cart person for beverages would be nice to have. Would play again.

The greens were average, but the rest of the course needs much care.

This golf course could be nice course. The course was packed with people golfing. People jumping from hole to hole, people 2 r3 holes behind, people drinking heavily and alot of disrespect for the course and for other people who could actually play golf.
This seemed to be the season of golf in 2024 for the sunshine state. Rangers just roaming for their free rounds of golf and not getting people to move along, get drunks off the course and ensuring everyone can enjoy their round of golf.
Such a sham for these courses and not just Buffalo Creek.😡

Greens and fairways
were excellant can't wait to play again again

Buffalo Creek is a good public course but, as a local, public course, it is way over priced.
There's also no excuse for the price to double during snowbird season for us players who support the course year round.

Fairways and greens were in great shape. Tee boxes are being worked on but playable. Staff was great and pace of place was good. Played once before but don’t get over to Bradenton area that often.
Will play here again!

Over book and pace of play.
Course needs a lot of love

It's good to see the much-needed improvements taking shape. Good job on # 10 and #17 greens as well. The ponds are getting some water back, too. The ball washers didn't smell like pond water and the cooler still had water at the end of the day.

I’ve played this course many times over the years. I’ve seen it resemble a Links course, dry and fast and as a Swamp course; soaked and cart path only. I am so glad that they got new carts in the past year, the old ones were kinda beat. The new ones are neat and accelerate very quickly.
Pros: very open, no houses to hit, greens have improved greatly, The 18th hole is very impressive; I never like that island green idea.

Cons: tee boxes could use those little trash cans for the busted tees, sand to fill the divots (yes, I know we have sand on the carts, but still), remove the shells and larger rocks out of the sand traps, the mats on the driving range could be a little thicker than the current ones, Cody is trash cans on every tee box. Space out tee times; it felt as if the starter wanted to get as many people out there as possible, which I can understand, but this leads to wait times on the course.

Overall, Buffalo Creek does offer a nice day out for a decent price, when compared to the other courses in the area. My final suggestion is to post rules about pace of play and golf course etiquette.

Played this course a few times in past couple of years, last couple of times course was overbooked, had to wait for carts to come in. Five hour round waiting between every shoot is not fun. Will not be back.

Arrived at the 1st tee on time, (5 minutes early) only to learn the starter had lined three groups with later tee times to go off ahead of us. We asked the starter if tee times meant anytime or not. He indicated they did but offered no explanation what that was. .The foresome sent out ahead of us furned out to be terminally slow. Now to make our experience worse the course was in horrific shape. It turned an interesting layout into the worst dog track I have played in years.

Fairways are in very good shape couple of tee boxes here and there not so good. Greens had a good roll to them and very good shape for this time of year overall really like this course. Just enough of a challenge Play here you'll like it no houses around