IMPORTANT: Make sure that you have a pathway connecting each club facility with the clubhouse!
Club facilities - the snack bar, pro shop, driving range, etc. - must be connected to the clubhouse by a pathway. The path can be as long and devious as all get-out, but if there is no connection your facility will not operate, your golfers will be disgruntled and you won't get any cash. (Note that you do not have to link home sites to the clubhouse.)

Place the tee of a hole near to the green of the previous hole.
You don't want your golfers to have to travel a long distance between holes. It irritates them and they might decide to leave the course before completing your course. This can cost you valuable green fees. If possible, place the tee of the next hole near the green of the previous one. Note that golfers will play the course in the order that you built it; however you can change the order of play at the Routing Map.

If possible, place two tees near to each other.
If you set up your course with tees near to each other, you may be able to place marshals and rangers so that they will cover both areas. This can save you a bundle.

Give your golfers a place to sit down.
Your golfers will get tired after a few rounds of play. If they don't have somewhere to rest, they'll head on home to their Sim-easy-chair and watch Sim-reality TV. Make sure that you place benches around your course.

Avoid building steep slopes in trafficked areas.
Sim-golfers hate walking up hills. If you've got hills on your course, run your paths around rather than over them. If the golfers must ascend the hill, build a bridge from the bottom of the hill to the top. The bridge will be less steep than a path would be, anyway.

Put pretty and/or cool stuff near to difficult holes.
It's important to keep your golfers happy. If you've got a particularly nasty hole, say with a huge water hazard, a narrow dogleg fairway, and a tiny green sloped heavily towards the world's deepest sand trap; your less-accomplished golfers may become somewhat irate (if not pig-biting mad). Giving them something attractive to look at will help to take their minds off their woes.

Build a golf cart garage as soon as you can
Golf carts speed up play dramatically. You should build one as soon as you are allowed to. It will pay for itself in an extremely short time.

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