DocRhino

I spent a generous amount of time thinking about the title of this review, but to no avail, this is as nice as I could get. Having arrived an hour before my tee time, it was pleasant experience up to when I was about to tee off. I went inside to get some breakfast and after having passed by the front counter with 4 staff members behind AND making eye contact with every single staff member, I was standing at the snack counter for close to 5 minutes before having to make a return trip to the front counter and asking if the snack counter was staffed. Only then did one of the staff members pipe up and say that he was manning the snack counter. Food was good, and was made from scratch. After having tee'd off, I was having an amazing first round, despite all the road noise, road construction, and surrounding building construction, but this changed at the turn. Through the first nine, I did not see any Marshalls or Player Assistants or Cart Girls, thought this was not a problem, at this time. After making the turn, I ran into a threesome that was nice enough to let me play though, then I ran into a sevensome that I ignored me and I had to skip a hole ahead, then another fivesome that ignored any polite requests of playing through. Long story shot, this ruined my pace to the point that I called off my round and went back in. No Staff on the course to notice what was going on, and the Staff in the Clubhouse had no idea what was going on on their course, even with active GPS. This course has gone severely down hill. I will never play this course again, and I DO NOT recommend this course to anyone.

I was very wary to play this course, given the fact that is a true Country Club experience. The front half of this course is played with in the community that this course is located in, so houses and commercial drainage areas. You really have to keep a narrow ball on the front half of this course. The GPS was a godsend on this course, as the distances were deceiving. Overall, this was a great course to play, it was very fun. The staff and the regulars were extremely nice. I would recommend this course to anyone of any skill level.

This little course, as it turns out, is not far from my house, which is a great thing, and here is why....
1. Upon arrival, my golf partner and I were greeting IN the parking lot and asked if we had a tee time, which of course we did.
2. Upon check in, we were greeted and treated like Club Members. It was warm and friendly and cozy, most likely because they knew how many balls we were about to lose, details on that in a bit.
3. The clubhouse staff even took notice of my golf partner's Disabled Vet plates and offered, let me say this again, OFFERED, up one of their personal Blue HC Flags for use of the cart.

Now, on to the darker side, which I am glad to say, this course does not have many. While it being a Par 70, it is still a Moderately difficult course. What makes this course so difficult? All the water. After having played in Florida for the first time at Christmas last year, it sordidly reminded me of those courses. Water, water, water EVERYWHERE! Remember how I thought the staff was being nice because they knew how many balls we were going to lose? I lost a fair amount, as did my partner. The only real downside to this course is that if you are to fall in behind a foursome that are members of the Course, DO NOT expect to be able to play through. We were on schedule for a just over 3.5 hour round, and we got slowed to a 5+ hour round. Oh well, it was still fun all around, and we both had great fun with the challenge and we will MOST DEFINITELY be playing this course again in the near future. I would also recommend this course to anyone of any skill level that is on the course to have fun. As far as serious play, I would not recommend this course to anyone that has not been playing golf for at least 6 months and has some decent control of their shots. Just my two cents.