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This is a decent tract for an 'old timey' course. The holes were varied enough to make it interesting. Decent fairways, decent greens. Elevation changes and some easy forced carries over natural areas. It would have been a nice golfing experience if not for the staff.
Approaching the clubhouse, we were barked at by the cart attendant, "what time is your tee time!" I told him and he immediately argued. "No it's not, you're wrong. We already have a group at that time." The attitude continued in the clubhouse. We got the old, "Oh, you're one of them 'Golfnow people.'" Apparently they weren't aware that after Golfnow books a 2 some, they sell the other 2 spots as well. They made us feel like we were ruining their day and we were such an inconvenience to them by having the nerve to try to leave some money there.
We tried to forget about all of that and enjoy the course. We were following a twosome and all went well. For 3 holes. We got to number 4 and it was a big delay. The ranger showed up and asked if the single behind us could join up with us. He reasoned that that would slow us down and so we wouldn't have to wait as much. I asked if the whole course was slow and he said said "no, just these 3 holes," so I asked about the twosomes playing through. He got indignantly snotty and said "NO! On weekends Foursomes have priority." There were 2 slow as molasses foursomes in front of the twosome ahead of us, it would have been a six hour round. I politely advised him that, per the rules of golf, a twosome has priority and his smug response was, "NOT HERE!" Not wanting a 6 hour round, we skipped the next two holes and enjoyed the wide open course.
At the turn, the ranger ran up to me and handed me a sheet of rules, pointing out rule 2, no skipping holes, and rule 3, foursomes have priority. Apparently rule 4, allow faster players to play through, doesn't apply on weekends.
I think it insane that, on a wide open course, we were expected to follow the only 2 foursomes out there and play at their pace.
Fortunately, he didn't say anything to us the rest of the round, but continued to follow us like we were criminals stealing from them and ruining their peaceful, customerless day. It seems the only purpose of the ranger was to ensure slow play.
The course was enjoyable enough, one I could see myself playing often, but, I don't know if I'll be back due to the combativeness of the ranger. The whole atmosphere of the course was that it was private and for 'members'(locals) only and we were unwanted there.