crackasnowflake

If it weren’t for rocks the bunkers on the front 9 would be empty. Didn’t hit any bunkers today but I was going crazy watching everyone around me complain. Added 15 minutes to the round listening to everyone complain about how empty the bunkers are. Grass was dying off in some parts. The range is a joke. Very big but very uneven and grass wasn’t growing at all. Practice chipping green is extremely small. Pretty silly that it even exists.

I don’t mind that courses overseed and scalp the grass. I do mind when they sell tee times and they don’t tell guests what they are buying.

Great greens. I hope they can keep them that good all summer because they were the perfect speed and receptiveness to spin.

I don't know how to adequately review this course as it sucks so much but it is still a golf course that I live next to and play. I'll try to go through all the problems I found just today in hopes that someone reads this and fixes it.

1) the tee boxes are in terrible shape. How does that even happen. They should literally be the nicest part on the course because you only hit from a designated spot.

2) the fairways are patchy and in terrible shape. You can hit a great drive in the middle of the fairway and land in what you would call ground under repair, but because the course doesn't actually do anything, it will stay that way.

3) they have completely stopped trying to manicure anything that isn't the fairway. There is just hard packed dirt that goes along every fairway. Google maps will show you this very clearly.

4) the cart paths are a joke. They stop and start randomly and half of them look destroyed by weather or just weren't made correctly to begin with.

5) The green on #7 has been driven over by a golfcart in the rain by someone doing doughnuts and it has yet to be repaired. This has been a problem for weeks. It doesn't even look like they have put seed down as nothing is growing.

6) The clubhouse is in shambles.

7) The landscaping crew doesn't start until after sun up, which means if you play in the morning (peak rates), you don't get a raked bunker, you are constantly being followed by lawn mowers and the greens are slow from day old cuts.

8) the greens are in terrible shape. It is obvious that everyone who plays this course has stopped caring about fixing divots and that the crew does not know how to repair the green. They are slow and boring.

9) the sand in the bunkers is probably 50% rocks. Because they don't actually know how to care for the course, the drainage in the bunkers stinks and the big rocks just float to the top every night when they water it and the sand gets blown away leaving impossible to rake bunkers. I will not hit out of the bunkers without a desert club.

10) they do not trim back the trees on holes 11-14 so the greens are littered with foliage 20 hours a day. I assume they have a blower to fix it from 10:30 to 2pm but after that it is back to horrible. 50% of the time I have to give myself an automatic 2 put because I don't want to spend 5 minutes clearing my line of tree branches.

11) Someone spay painted the yardage markers onto the side of someone's house on one of the par 3's. Real classy.

12) This course is in a +55 community, which usually means good things. The problem is the people living in the community walk their dogs and don't pick up after them constantly. I can't tell you the amount of times including today, that I have seen old people just not care about their dogs "leftovers".

13) the practice range is like 250 yards with no net in the back to catch balls. They offer private lessons on the opposite side so when it is busy they tell you that you can't hit driver because you might kill a student/teacher.

14) they don't maintain the practice range at all. They close it down for overseeding every few months but they don't bother seeding it. The practice range is a perfect example of the golf course's condition as a whole. But they did put new mats out for people... With the money they spent on mats they could have tilled the entire practice range, seeded it, and let us hit off the grass like adults.

You can tell the course is doing the bare minimum to get around the HOA requirements.

They don't tell you it's cart path only until after you have already made the reservation. I would have changed it, but couldn't because of the fees. Other than that it was fun.