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Wintonbury Hills Golf Course
Played On 08/29/2019Bad Experience
Go elsewhere. A pretty good course in bad condition and very poorly managed. They sent a league out on the back-nine, so I had a 45-minute wait at the turn. All told it took over 2 hours to play my next five holes on a weekday afternoon. I drove off when there were literally five groups on the following hole (a par 4). The man inside the pro shop was nice enough, but told me this happened because I played too fast and that I really got a 9 hole rate (to be clear, they advertised/sold me 18 holes). What a joke; these excuses just made the experience worse. The course is in very bad shape anyway, which he admitted to. Don't bother with this place, go support a better-managed course somewhere else.
Golf Club at Mansion Ridge
Played On 09/26/2016Awful Staff/Management--kicked off course due to their error
I booked a round online (as did 3 other single, for the same time). We arrived right as a shotgun outing was teeing off. The course sent us out anyway...we got through 12 holes in literally 4 hours. Then a women's night league came out to the back 9 and told us we needed to get off the course. We found a ranger (Mike, who's also the assistant pro), who then told us we should not have been able to book our tee time in the first place and that the website made a mistake.
This is curious because the websites only offer times made available by the course. In addition, I booked 3 days ahead of time--the course could have called that morning to explain and apologize, but didn't. He made no effort to allow us (now down to a twosome) to play on, but instead told us to follow him off the course. He could not have been less apologetic, and placed the blame solely on the website--he almost made it sound like our fault for booking. He begrudgingly gave us a "rain check," which only replaces a round I've already paid for, but does nothing for the major inconvenience, rudeness, and complete waste of a day (again, 12 holes in 4 hours). I could have played elsewhere had we been informed, but that would have taken some effort from the staff, which is asking too much.
The staff is generally unfriendly here but this time was almost impressive in how inept and unconcerned they were for their customers. Which sucks, because it's a nice course and generally in decent shape. But you can find other similarly nice courses in the area in the same price range with a friendlier and more competent staff. I encourage you to do so.
that sucks, but how was the course? Giving the course a 1 star because of the clubhouse doesnt really help people who are looking for reviews on the course.
I am sorry that you didn't enjoy your experience at the club. We do double tee on weekdays for league play and allow 2 hours for play each nine holes. We had you paired with another twosome but you went ahead as a single and of course turned very quickly which explains you waiting on the turn. I do hope you will return to enjoy the club and its facilities in the future.