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Tried it out thinking how bad could it be? Well, there’s just nothing all that nice about the golf course. It’s really not great.

New club house is nice. Staff is great.

I’m a one-and-done visitor. Just can’t get over how awful public golf is near Franklin.

Staff is awesome. Practice facilities are good. Bent greens roll pure but were slow given all the rain. Members were really nice and happy. Has hosted PGA Tour events. Layout is solid. Hole #12 is a fantastic golf hole. Par 3s are challenging with several above 200 yards. Really fun approach shots. Par 5s protected by some ridiculously contoured greens with false fronts. Back 9 is stronger than front 9. If you are debating whether or not to play Fair Oaks, just go. You will be very happy.

Staff is awesome.

Best greens in the desert.

Really tough par 5s. Relatively easy par 3s. 7500 yard tees are ridiculously long. Challenge on this course is off the tee -- there are plenty of really tough driving holes. Beautiful backdrop. Greens are fairly tame and roll extremely well.

Add this to your must play list in the desert.

It was really hot. Like 97 degrees hot.

They are clearly doing their best in the face of this really awful drought. Fairway lies were shockingly good. Greens don't have their teeth right now -- they rolled true but are slow b/c of the need to water down due to the drought/heat. I could play a low spin flop that would plunk and stay put. I didn't even come close to having a 3-putt, and I'm sure I wouldn't be able to say that under more normal conditions. Rolling fast, those greens would be a bear.

Course is mix of somewhat easy holes contrasted w/ legitimately difficult holes. Hole 16 is a gnarly par 4, trouble left & right off tee, long iron into narrow green that offers jail if you leak it right even just a little. Hole 14 is a par 5 w/ a fantastic approach shot uphill and over a rock cliff and mini-canyon.

First time playing it, had a yardage book which is a good idea. W/ the book, it was very clear where to play and where not to play. Yardages were true.

Didn't use driver from holes 6-11, including multiple par 4s and even a par 5. Teed off w/ long irons playing 200-220 yds and had short wedges to greens. This stretch seemed really easy. It was the shortest 6900 yd course I've ever played. Only hit one long iron approach all day (hole 16).

Staff is great. I was a single and flew through the course in 3:20. When play got gummed up, the marshal escorted me to some open holes and then brought me back to the holes I had skipped. Thank you.

But I could imagine that rounds could get VERY long here if stuck behind groups of novice golfers. This is not a friendly resort course. It's a golfer's shot-making course.

It's a great track and kind of unique. No need to travel way out of your way to play it, but you'll enjoy it if given the chance.

Fantastic layout -- great mix of holes and distances, some you can relax on and some you can't (#10 and #18 are beasts). Superb course conditions. Challenging w/o being tricked up at all. Very beautiful course. Fairways fairly generous, no rough but bunkers everywhere. Really, really, really fun.