jbob7272

Course is in excellent condition for the amount of rain and cold nights we had through February. Tee boxes are clean and well groomed, and greens are surprisingly good....little fast....so watch the putts. Staff was friendly and had us all set up and out right away. Even the 5-some in front of us was moving well and letting 2 somes play through (gotta love winter golf groups). Can't wait to see how good this place looks come May.

Course is in great condition, got there early, and they allowed us out early. No complaints in the off season.

There was an alert on GN for aerification, which was fine. We have played many courses, you just know ahead of time to not be judgemental about greens or course conditions. This was a little different.
There had been some rain the day before which apparently interfered with their schedule/plans to aerate on 10/13. So with a full tee sheet they decided to change to next day, and close half of the course. Double the back 9 as our 18 holes was not disclosed on GN.

Now this was a logistical nightmare, course books about a week in advance, and they could have easily moved it out a week to make sure they booked less round for only having 9 holes open.

So now you have people who teed off at 8am coming around their back 9 at noon, and you have tee times scheduled for noon...so now every booked time is actually a double time 8am/12pm 8:08/12:08 /8:16/12:16 and so on..every afternoon time front 9 had an accompanying back 9 from the morning. So needless to say the course was super backed up.

They didn't tell us any of this.
Instead they called us off the range about 10 minutes ahead of our tee time, got us loaded up and sent to the first tee....only to find that there were 3 groups still ahead of us to tee off. So we sat at the first tee for almost an hour waiting. First hole on back is a par 3...so now you can't even tee off once the group is down the fairway and hits their 2nd shot...you sit and wait on the tee box for them to finish the entire hole....and we all know sometimes ppl have a 6 on a par 3...or worse...so now imagine sitting on a tee box waiting for 3 groups ahead of you to finish a par 3.
Surprise, super slow the whole front 9....come around for our back 9, still slow...Our tee time was around 1pm, which gave us 5 and a half hours till sundown. It took us those 5.5 hours to make it to hole 14, then we had to get the carts in..

Called and spoke to the GM which is how i got info about the schedule.

Told him out right it kinda sucks to not put up any information about only having 9 holes open, having people pay for 18, and play only 14 in 5.5 hours....
He basically kept trying to blame it on the weather....told him "but you knew you had a full tee sheet, and only half a course"
No answer
Finally told me to get in contact with him, and he would do something to take care of me and my group. I have since reached out multiple times in more than one media, with no response. Even on my birthday. Gave him over 30 days between my first attempt to reach out, and my review. Looks like we will be skipping mill pond from now on if we want to complete a round.

Staff is great, pace of play is great however, condition has taken a turn for the worst. Middle of many fairways is in total disrepair, bunkers are filled with pebbles and stones, some areas of the rough after a previous days rain were still flattened muddy grass. Overall everything is nice, but charging full rate with the current condition is a little much. Course conditions make it look like it is heading the way of great rock.