Kathleen5407096

The course was in early season condition, which was expected. Some bunker sand was soft, in others it was like cement. The experience was, unfortunately, similar to what has been happening everywhere since the start of the pandemic. Pace of play was terrible! People ahead with blaring music, playing from the back tees when they obviously should not be - it was obvious that had no golf etiquette. We have started terming these people “pandemic players”, those people who don’t know how to play golf, don’t know the rules, and don’t care about anyone else on the course. I think it is time for the golf staff at courses to start marshaling again, so the experience for everyone is good, not just the partiers out there hacking their way around.

I played this course many times in the early 2000s. Played it again last week and was totally appalled that the golfers we were paired with played music way too loud and were drinking way too much. One of them hit a second ball right over our heads and didn’t even bother to warn us first. We were also harassed by the guys behind us, by driving up on us as we were preparing to tee off ( we had to wait a considerable time on each shot). This course has really gone downhill and that is sad.

I played this course many times when I lived in Fort Collins. I now live in Denver so haven’t been there for awhile, we played Mariana Butte in the morning and decided to play Southridge in the afternoon since we were staying up for the weekend. We were paired with a couple on the front nine. The gal hit a shot and we went to my ball when, to our surprise and shock, the gal hit again over our heads - yikes! On the back nine some very drunk dudes playing music very loudly in their carts screeched up beside us as we were waiting to hit. I asked them to turn the music down, which they did. On the 18th, the skidded up to us and started some nonsense harassing about how was the music, was it too loud, etc. total drunks. Of course our shots went into the crap. So we went to the drop zone, which was the forward tee box. NEVER EVER allow people to chew up the forward tee box as a drop zone. You do know that paying customers use that as their tee box, right? Don’t allow stupid people to ravage it please. Anyway, we decided that you have to play in the morning in Fort Collins with the golfers, not the stupid drunks in the afternoon.