Headed to Orange Beach next month. What courses would you recommend in the general area? Played Craft Farms once before (10 years ago) and enjoyed it.

Thanks!

In order of preference:

Peninsula
Gulf Shores Golf Club/Craft Farms tossup


Kiva Dunes - wind, bugs, scrub, no views

Thank you

Wherever you end up, play in the morning. We teed off at 1:00 last year at Craft Farms and I thought I was going to pass out about 4 times. There was only 1 other guy on the course all afternoon.

Gulf Shores GC was much nicer than I thought it would be, give it an opportunity.
Peninsula and Craft Farms are 1/1a imo, Kiva is bad and Lost Key is worse.

I've never only played "bad and worse" and I'd agree with this assessment.

I just got back from Gulf Shores yesterday and we only played Peninsula since other courses were aerating. IMO Peninsula isn't worth the price. Played in the morning and $170. I enjoyed Craft Farms (Cotton Creek) last time I went but they were recovering from aerating. We wanted to give Cypress Bend a chance but they were aerating the week we were there. Kiva was also recovering from aerating and I've never played there but I've heard a lot of people talk about it not being worth it.

Craft Farm courses should be fine by next month when you go so I would give them a try. Play in the morning and bring bug spray for what ever course you play. The gnats are awful.

Stay away from lost keys in Pensacola unless you're ok with losing a lot of golf balls.

$170? Usually runs $125-135; will be there in a few weeks with an 8am on July 4th at $135. Craft Farms these days will usually run $100-120 peak while Peninsula is $120-140 peak. Best value is GS Golf Club, which is comparable to both and more like $85-90 at peak

We played at 9:15 on Tuesday and bought a bucket of range balls with it and it was $170+. They were shooting a video from a new management company it sounded like while we were there so maybe the rates already were changed from it.

What I quoted are the prices on the site now, but maybe you got surge charged somehow.

Thanks all for the comments