river wilderness golf and country club

Course is in the best shape of any in Manatee/SRQ Counties. Price is inexpensive, range is awesome, food is excellent. Save $60 per person from the overpriced courses around.

That's great! We're glad to have shared the day with you and your family!

Beautiful golf corse, challenging if you want it to be. Fairly wide fairways and fast greens. Clubhouse has been redone, it looks better. All waitstaff and pro shop staff are very accommodating and friendly. Food, at lunch is great.

Great to have you visit the Club! Thanks for the great review, we appreciate it!

I completely agree with MMS1956's review. I have played at this Club a few times, and in all cases they seem to have an affinity for understaffing. On two occasions I witnessed who appeared to be club members berating the guy in golf pro shop for making them wait to tee off. While I completely understand - that as members - they should be able to tee off at their proper tee time, I also understand that if the club is going to allow the public to also make tee times, then they must be fair to everyone. Having a Marshall help with speed of play can keep people moving, and negate a domino effect of people teeing off late, but for some reason they never seem to have one. But in any case, it is not the fault of the guy at the pro shop desk and the members don't have to abuse him verbally. This club needs real direction and needs to understand that cutting staff to try and save money can really be counter-productive, in that services suffer, and therefore the people patronizing the club suffer because they don't get what they pay for and don't get the service they deserve.

Loved the mature trees and the layout. Challenging if you want it to be. Greens were a little lumpy but overall the course was great. We got interrupted by lightning in the area but all was well. The staff and club pro were very friendly. Will come back and play this course later.

We did the shotgun start today at 8am. It starts off with a microwaved packaged breakfast sandwich with a rubber like piece of sausage meat and dried out bun. The poor young lady at the "breakfast window" was by herself although there were over 100 golfers all showing up at the same time! It's not like the pro shop and manager didn't know we all were coming! A couple of the members started to complain as they butted in front of us and I told them to be nice as she was only one person. I noticed no one was tipping this young lady, (except me).No Marshall's on the course at all to sort out all the carts travelling to all 18 tee boxes, as a matter of fact there were no Marshall's out all round. We also could have used a refreshment cart available but not one of those either?? It was a very hot day. Greens were in good shape and very quick. Seemed like lots of leaking pipes in the irrigation system on about 4 holes as standing water and puddles on certain fairways. Thought the course overall was not up to the standard I expected for the price paid. Very short staffed and not very friendly. I won't be back.

This course is in great shape. The layout, although not exceptional is very intriguing with water along many fairways and bunkers in front of most greens. The greens are mostly flat with little undulation. They roll fast and true, The fairways provided a lot of roll which I like. There had been a frost delay when we arrived for our 10:15 tee time. The starter and the pro shop desk attendant were very helpful, providing update information along with advising us that we had free driving range balls and they would get us when our tee time was coming up. At first they thought we would be 45minutes delayed, but as time went on they kept cutting that time and we teed off about 20 minutes late. Not bad, and made more tolerable by their continual updates. A breakfast sandwich was included in our tee time. It consisted of either ham and cheese, or sausage and cheese on a croissant or biscuit (microwaved) and a cup of coffee, The woman who worked the food window kept disappearing for 20 minutes at a time causing many customers to complain about the long wait. Overall, I highly recommend this beautiful facility for it's fine golf conditions and exceptional customer service.

Impressed by the golf course with it's many lakes. Great looking gated community which was well kept. Liked the course from the championship tees. One hole was 600 yards long. Lots of birds and other wildlife. Are you kidding, I'm ready to move.

Beautiful community with a five-star golf course, boat ramp and boat storage, and lots of friendly people.

A beautiful community in which to live, or to visit and play golf.I loved it so much I bought a home there!

great golf club functions a bit rual many homes built recently are now for sale very cheap with exceptional views. Much shopping and outlets nearby plus ocean(gulf and pristine beaches) 25 minutes away.