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Not planning to return any time soon-we’ve had this issue every time we’ve played here. No adults taking responsibility to enforce pace of play…ridiculous that they have no ranger on the course but they staff someone on 18 looking for tips to clean your clubs….plenty of time to clean my own clubs while waiting at EVERY SINGLE TEE BOX! We hit the 4 hour mark while waiting to tee off on hole 15. Other courses in the valley don’t have this issue so perhaps this place needs new management.

Temporary green for the 5th hole…probably the best condition of all them. We’ve played here before so we hope the condition of all the other greens is just a onetime, temporary issue. The have golfers tee off on #10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays this season.

Very walkable track however I’ve never seen anyone other than my spouse (he likes to run to his ball) and I take a cart with both sets of clubs. We select the tee box that is most appropriate for our level as ALL golfers should! Spouse is a single digit index and I hover around 20. Pleased to see a ranger several times throughout the round to check on speed of play. No beverage cart on course so take some in your provided-cooler. We’re big fans of a 4 hour pace and that is the expectation here, too.

They are busy enough a course ranger would seem appropriate to maintain pace of play especially given the the navigation thru neighborhoods to go from green to tee.

The starter advised golfing on the Lakes course as it was in better shape. You can select appropriate yardage with tee box selections. Unfortunately the greens had many bare areas and appeared to be suffering. Given it’s a 45 min drive from the strip there may be better options but if they can improve the course conditions it would be great.

If they had a ranger they could have addressed a group with 7 men on a tee box. These guys drove their carts nearly on the greens, spraying balls every direction and no sense of ready golf—absolutely clueless! There was a 2 hole gap separating this group and the group they were to follow. Consequently we had a 4.5+hour round and this historically hasn’t been an issue. When the tee sheet is full it’s even more important to enforce no more than 4 in a group.

Greens were in great shape. This course is notorious for all the sand traps but if you miss a fairway you may prefer a bunker rather than playing out of the rough.
The rough was lush, green and DEEP!
The starter and beverage cart person were both friendly. Kudos for having drinking water on the course at various tee boxes.

The signature bear traps (excellent sand) are so numerous and strategically placed the average golfer would be frustrated. An hour drive from Las Vegas in the middle of nowhere. I''m sure collegiate golfers and experienced tournament players would enjoy the challenge. We don't know what purpose the alleged "ranger" serves. We encountered him at hole 16 just minutes before dusk at 6:30 pm which would have been 4.5 hours into the round.

The starter made a big deal about pace of play, not enforced. Frustrating to play a 5 hour round when there weren't restrictions on driving on fairways, etc. Curious to see twosomes on a very busy day, in the past we've had to golf with strangers when we didn't have a foursome. The beverage cart came thru once each 9 holes and she had 1 Arnold Palmer and No Gatorade--in fact she said she hadn't had any Gatorade for 3 days! The temps were in the mid 80's and drinking fountains only at the comfort stations which are accessed only once each nine. After the round we went to the grill and they had Gatorade. The grill menu offers good options. Issues appear to be with management/operations not necessarily staff.