Moody Gardens Golf Course

Nice course. Most likely outstanding in the SPR and FALL...windy day.

This is a wonderful course hidden off the Beaten path in Galveston, Texas. It's a municipal course that's in incredibly great shape for a muni. The greens roll true and fast. There's water on virtually every hole. And you have to think carefully about course management because of the wind that comes off the ocean and sweeps across the course.

The staff is very friendly and professional. The carts are new also.

We look forward to playing this course again.

Moody Gardens is a course with plenty of water and other hazards that is set up to play with the prevailing SSE winds. We played the course with 20-25 NNW winds, making it an extremely challenging but fun day. Greens are excellent, fast and true and the wind made keeping the ball low a necessity. Longer holes played into the wind instead of downwind and we were able to hit shorter clubs into holes that are normally hard to reach into the wind. Nice course to walk as well, as the layout is mainly flat and plenty of birds to add to the view.

Would have been a great course without those nasty mosquitoes.
There are like 30 mosquitoes around and on. I managed to kill at least 50 of them, but still got several bumps on my hands, face and neck.
Mosquito spray helped a bit.
Definitely won’t go again.

Many different tees present many different challenges. On the whole, there is no altitude change at see level, so it can be challenging to see where the fairway goes.
Good greens, and really unique grass.

The course is wide open with only water hazards to worry about. Everything was smooth until #17. Sadly, the marshal had just been around. 2 foursomes (lead foursome waited for the second foursome) decided to all tee off together on the par 3. And they took forever. Now 8 people putting and chipping. What a mess. Our foursome skipped the hole as we weren't going to wait 20 minutes. We paid the same as the eightsome but they must be more special than us. The pin placements were a little interesting as many were on the top of a ridge which made it like putt putt golf on some holes. The last thing were the mosquitos. Bring bug spray. They will eat you alive. I would say that nature cannot be controlled by the golf course but, it can. The ponds could be sprayed.

Course was in decent shape everywhere but tee boxes. The black tees we played had very little grass, & what was there was primarily weeds. Greens were great, everything else good, but the black tee boxes were terrible. Please do better.

The course is always in great shape. Greens fast but tricky sometimes. The staff is always very helpful in any way possible. The traps are always racked and fluffy. The cart girls polite and very thoughtful. The practice areas are great for any level of playing. The tee boxes very to make it a challenge for any level player. I find it hard to say anything about this course on the negative side. Come try it out for yourself and you will see what I mean!

I played Friday and Saturday in my 1st trip to Galveston.
The pace Friday was excellent and Saturday wasn’t too bad with a 9am tee time. The course is beautiful and very well maintained. Clean, green fairways and near pristine greens. Very manageable course for any player and definitely a great chance to score well. I look forward to returning!