Brock Park Golf Course Snack Bar

This course is just awful. Ignore other Unilocalers saying his is a gem.
Pro– Cheap
Con — Cheap.
This place is in a sketchy neighborhood, out NE Houston.
The driving range 0– can’t use fairways woods.
The course it self. Tees are sand hills.
Fairways, what fairways. You can lose your ball in the fairway. Different types of grasses, overgrown. no tending, no care. Rough, definitely rough. If you are in the rough you are in swampland, beware!
Greens, small undulating, over water. Sand bunkers are cat litter stations.
No cart girls. 1‘ porta potty for the entire course. 2 course marshalls dong nothing, yelling at patrons for driving off the rutted gravel decrepit asphalt cart paths on to the… fairway???
no drainage to the course.
Bug, mosquitoe central.
Not certain what brains Unilocal posters calling this a «jewel», seriously? If this is a jewel, then Houston is where Disneyland is! Any description you may read of this place is over ten years old and does not pertain to the current conditions of this course. Even the Golf Now site is not accurate.
There is no pro shop, no food service.
There is no player courtesy.
I will not return.
I am posting this to remember not to come back here.
What surprises me about a town like Houston is that the public courses are so crappy! You must belong to a country club to get decent golfing, pay $ a hundred dollars to play decent golf at a semi private or suffer in one of these dumps.

Good and bad all into one. Front nine is pretty easy overall and the entire course is short and packed in. Back nine is much tougher. Like others mentioned, greens are tiny but are in decent shape. Not much sand around but a lot of trees and ditches. Several holes hit over hazards. Crappiest things were the lack of alcohol (maybe BYOB?) and the cart path is gravel. For the price, I’d rather pay a little more for Battleground, CC, or Pine Crest. Decent course but not sure if I’ll be back.

This is the best course around for the money. Greens are better than many privately owned clubs in the area. Definitely worth the drive!

If you are a beginner at golf or are looking for a course where you can play for cheap this is for you, I like it here because its not overly packed and you cant beat the price especially twilight $ 20 and BYOB the marshals can care less if you bring beer or your own drinks. Fairways are decent some greens are horrible but I can recall this on 2 holes out of the 18. Cant complain for the price and will return.

The greens are tiny and the course is challenging.
However, it is a decent deal and wasn’t too crowded when we went.
If you’re short on balls, there’s a guy who collects balls around the course and will sell you a bag for a quarter a ball.
Remember when I said the course is challenging? Yeah, I lose many balls into the rough.

As far as I’m concerned with municipal golf courses, Brock Park is the bee’s knees.
The condition of the course is pretty decent owing mostly to the low amount of golf traffic that it gets. Greens and fairways are in a very good shape, not as good as Memorial, but better than Hermann or anywhere else I’ve been. The course also offers a lot of good challenges. It has a decent amount of roll, sloping greens, and several forced carries over some very large drainage ditch/​ravines. This course is hungry for balls, so bring plenty.
The area itself is located in a pretty isolated, desolate part of town. It’s a very industrial area with mobile home parks and a landfill nearby. However, the course itself is surrounded by large trees and you’d never know it. It feels like your playing at a course out in the country. The course does partially abut a mobile home park so that does kind of make for an eye sore and ear sore since there’s usually radios playing loudly, but on the bright side, it’s only for a few holes and you don’t need to worry about shanking a shot and damaging somebody’s house since they’re all made of metal.
One of the best things about this course is that it’s a great beginner’s course. I’ve never seen the place crowded and it always feels like you’re the only one out there. So there is little to no problems with overcrowding or slow pace of play.
The clubhouse isn’t much and I’m pretty sure the snack bar has permanently gone kaput. The upside to this is that you can bring your own beer. They’ll even give you a grocery sack and let you fill it up with ice with the ice machine that still remains from the defunct snack bar/​café. The clubhouse staff is very laid back and enjoyable to be around.
The course does have its downsides though. The cart paths, as mentioned, are not really paths, but more just like rough trails that have been paved with caliche rock. They also do not have much of a driving range. The driving range doesn’t extend much beyond 150 to 200 yards so you can’t use woods or drivers.
The course on the whole is a great value if you’re willing to make the trek out there. The prices can’t be beat. $ 23 total green’s fees on the weekends after noon. This is, by far, my favorite muni course.

Not worth the drive if it takes you more than 10 minutes.
The course it’s self is tough with blind shots and forced carry. But the experience is ruined by the condition of the greens and bunkers. This is the Anti Memorial course, and you can see City of Houston has no interest in up keeping here.
The previous clubhouse girl would complain her ass off to anyone that would listen, and who knows what she was on but we knew it wasnt gonna last. And now the clubhouse is shutdown, there is no snacks or drink at the turn.
Not worth the trouble even though we got to play it a few times for free with the city of Houston Coupons.

We came here to check this course out and take advantage of our Entertainment coupon book with a free green fee coupon. Brock park was average priced for a municipal course. There was a lot of construction in the surrounding area, so finding it was a bit of a pain.
Overall, we were happy with our visit to brock park. The cart paths are in very rough shape. They are all rocks and seem unfinished. Be ready for a bumpy ride (i got air several times). There are many fun obstacles at this course, including large ravines. It is very easy to lose balls here so come prepared. I would say this course is more challenging than sharpstown. We got there around 10AM and there were very few people there for a Sunday morning.
The greens were in very good condition, although a bit slow. The grass on the fairway was decent. However, the rough was in bad shape. It was thin and felt more like hard dirt than grass. I imagine this is probably due to the recent mixed weather we have had with alternating rain and 100 degree weather. It was frustrating to lose balls in the high grass even though you had a good shot.
Overall, I think this is a fun course and a natural progression from Melrose to Sharpstown and to Brock Park next. The snack Bar has $ 4 burgers that are more than decent. Very juicy and loaded with toppings. They offer beer here as well which is definitely a plus. Due to the hot weather, there were not many mosquitos fortunately.
Despite the drive, I know my friends and I will be back. This course has a bit of everything, including subtle hills and nice hazards. The fairways and roughs could be in better shape, but I imagine they will only improve.