Update: 7/19/25
Conditions are only getting worse here. See photos.
Update: 9/14/24
TLDR: Starters are rude and need to learn how to do their job and conditions need serious help for the price point.
My first review was from 8 years ago. My original comments about the layout remain true. It is a very fun layout, plays long from the tips if you're looking for a course you can take driver out on, and is one of the most challenging courses in the state.
However, conditions are poor, and have been slipping for years as management changes constantly.
For reference, we were charged $95 for a round with a cart. I'm judging this as a $95 course.
When I called earlier in the week, I asked the front desk about conditions. The person who answered said "they look good, but I've not been out on the course in months, so I can't really give you much more than that". That should have been a dead giveaway. Why would you not play the course you work at?
I won't list out every issue with the conditions but some of the major ones are:
-Tee boxes: There are a lot of severely uneven tee boxes. You have to watch out as it will affect the direction of your tee shot.
-Fairways: There are a lot of burnt out and dead areas in the fairways. Normally a little bit is a non issue, but when it's a course like this where everything is severely sloped, landing in the wrong spot easily means you can lose a ball OB.
-Areas surrounding greens: This is where a major issue is. Around the greens you could have the thickest rough ever, clumps of crab grass, completely dead ground/dirt like concrete, or any combo of all those within 5' of eachother. There's zero consistency to how this is maintained.
-Greens: Another area of inconsistency. Some of the greens were hard as a rock this weekend. The ball would land and bounce, which is what I'm used to here. Other greens, the ball would plug they were so soft.
It also doesn't appear that pitch marks are ever repaired here. If players don't fix them, crew should be fixing them regularly. It looks and feels like the greens have a bad case of acne. And beyond the pitch marks, there are plenty of burnt parts of the greens that they don't seem to be getting back any time soon.
They layout almost makes up for the degrading conditions. However, conditions combined with the attitude of the starter really bummed us out for this round.
On the first tee, we were early. Our foursome was put between two threesomes. They space the times by you tee off once the group in front reaches the green. That's not much time, and immediately a red flag for how the round is going to go. If you know this course, holes 2 and 3 are two of the hardest holes, one being a par 3 and the other the longest par 5 around.
On the tee box, we usually play the tips as our drives are usually at worst 280yds. More than enough distance for this course from the tips. The started proceeded to hound us about our handicaps saying we shouldn't play from there. We did anyway.
By hole two we were waiting at least 5 minutes on the tee box. Hole 3 we waited closer to 10 minutes.
By hole 5 the group in front of us seemed to fall into a groove and speed up a bit. We slowed down now to leave a space so there was less waiting around. The starter came around and started pressuring us to speed up play even though we were less than a hole behind the 3 some in front of us. He continued to do this multiple times throughout our round.
We still finished in around 4:15, so all of that was completely unwarranted.
Hopefully they figure out their management or get sold again to a different company.
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Awesome course that is always well maintained. It has a challenging yet usually fair layout that tests every aspect of your game. Landing areas from the tee have trouble - OB, water, sand, TALL grass. Even if it looks like it's wide open, you need to set up for your next shot as most greens have multiple tiers. You have to give yourself a shot to the correct section of the green.
I uploaded a lot of pictures where you can see most of what I described,