The Preserve on Rathbun Lake

I really wanted to love this course! It had been on my radar to play for a few years now and finally found the time to make the drive down from Des Moines. A Golfnow hotdeal of $35 with cart looked like an incredible deal, but the course didn't warrant a single dollar more, if even that much. The conditions were terrible overall. Greens were decent, rolled smooth, but slow. They pretty much let all the traps go and the fairways were patchy at best. The rough was terribly bumpy; my teeth are still chattering. It looks like they used to have GPS, which would have been incredibly helpful, but it's since been removed. The course is a travesty for what is a gorgeous property. Such a dissapointment going so far out of the way to play.

This course has gone downhill the past couple of years. Use to be in excellent shape, but now some of the greens/tees/fairways show burnout or wear. The worst part of this golf course is the bunkers. Hopefully they start putting more care into the course soon

This course was great! You barely see any houses the entire round, holes are challenging yet reward good shots, greens were in good shape. This is the best course I've ever played in Southern IA, I will definitely be back!

The course is an average condition. If it were 20-30 bucks cheaper it’d be a much better track. Limited shop options. Fungus and crabgrass and shoddy tee boxes and greens. Especially on the first. Probably wouldn’t come back but a great place to play at least once, I think.

paid $83 a person for this course was very excited to play since I am not from around there I was very disappointed sand traps were all Rock hard and had weeds all over. The rough was so bumpy and mainly dirt. The cart navigation system literally only lets you drive in the fairway and has a 50 foot rule from the green. It seems like. Photos online or nothing like how it is when you play good public courses here for about $45 around or 10 times better than this has potential to be good but I feel they are using their location as an excuse for high good prices I was teeing off on a par three as a Mower decided to start mowing the course as well as a maintenance guy driving around in an ATV that is very loud almost every single hole you’re at