scsmith63

I saw the putting green was without grass and thought they must be resurfacing. Nope most greens were 90% no grass!

Played 6 months ago and thought I would give it a go after the deep freeze that shut down all the courses.

All greens are missing turf so they are extremely bumpy and rolling awful.

None of the traps were maintained.

Don't waste your money.

Should have been told about very bad greens with no turf. No mention upon check in and was charged full price

5 hour round...ugh! I played the course 7 weeks ago and the greens were great. Pretty good shape and quick! Today, many greens have no grass in several areas and were slow. Not sure how they can go bad so quickly but not going back until they are fixed.

Course was sold in February and new owners want to improve it. There are still a few greens with no turf in spots. Overall maintenance seems to have improved. Greens are still on the slow side and have been all year.

I always enjoy playing here and since it has dried out over the last 2 weeks I played the tips. The only problem I really had was with the greens. Over the last year the miniverde greens have been invaded by small patches of foreign grasses which make the greens bumpy and knock putts off line. This really needs to be cleaned up ASAP!

In the mean time if they rolled the greens and cut the greens down so the foreign grass was the same height as the minverde it would definitely help!

Both courses are great layouts and I was so looking forward to playing this RTJ track but the course was absolutely soaked and it hadn’t rained in 5 days. Drives constantly plugged in the fairways and had to watch where you stepped.

This is a great course but as someone else said people like to jump in on the back and we had a shotgun tournament begin during our round! Management get a clue!

Always enjoy going here but appears the greens may have suffered some winter kill. Aeration taking time to heal and they are extremely slow and don't look anything like they have over the last 5 years I have played here. This course had some of the best greens around.

Haven’t played this course in 3-4 years and was shocked at the green conditions! Shaggy and missing turf on many of the greens. Other areas of course were typical for Birkdale.

Will not play again until they fix the greens!

Course was in decent conditions with recent drought. The biggest draw back was the winter kill on 6 greens, which they are addressing. No reduction in price for this just a sign on every cart explaining to move your ball to an unaffected area on the green.

I enjoy playing this course but there appears to have been a lot of winter kill to the greens in the last few months. They were fast but extremely bumpy with putts hoping offline on each hole.

The greens were the best I have seen them. 10 & 11 are open but still not complete, currently playing as a par 3 and short par 4. Card still shows the old 10 & 11.

The greens were missing turf and extremely slow and bumpy. Mowing seems to happen infrequently as the fairways and rough are very long. The traps on the back were not maintained and most needed sand.

I really enjoy playing this course but over the last 2 months the greens have burnt up and have no grass!

I really enjoy playing this course but the gnats are unbearable and swarm to you as soon as you step in grass.....anywhere!

Played in 3 hours as not to many people were on the course today. Surprised it wasn't cart paths only with all the rain. Noticed only a few wet spots as the course drains extremely well Course is always a good test from the back tees.

Course is always a good test but the greens were extremely slow today.

I really like the renovations at this course but the greens were really hard even after 3 days of rain. Wedges were releasing 40-50 ft due to the green hardness.

It had been a couple of years since I played and I was very disappointed in the greens as they were very bumpy (aerification from a few weeks ago) and extremely slow (not cut short as in the past). This course used to have some of the slickest greens for public play. I will not go back and you should post on golf now when aerified.