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You can’t take the cart to the parking lot. So you have to carry everything from their very long parking lot to the club house. Once we got inside the pro shop was very nice. The staff was “ok”. Not rude but not all that friendly either. The snack bar was very good. Huge hot dogs and decent burgers. Once we got our cart the marshal informed me that even though I only had Gatorade in my cooler I couldn’t take it with me. I had to leave it with him but could use the carts cooler. Well the cart cooler barely fit 2 of the 6 gatorades we brought With us. The driving range only allows irons. No woods or drivers period. The “large” bucket of balls were definitely a small everywhere I had been and they charge $12 for that. I had approximately 30-40 balls in the “large” bucket. The range needs a catch net on the right side to keep the balls off of hole 18s fairway. So you definitely need an orange ball on the 18th hole so you can determine your ball from the rest. There was only on hole where I had to fight to get my tee in the ground. From being so compacted. The course was laid out nicely. And there was several holes where I had to repair other people’s divots. There was a conjoined green on hole 8 & 14. Which was pretty neat. I’ve never seen that before. Overall the greens were in good shape. And the fairways were good. The carts are electric and a very nice electronic scorecard where you could even directly email the scorecard to yourself from the cart when your done. My bigg st complaint is that the carts are GPS controlled so if you get out of bounds at somewhere where they have programmed the cart no to go, it WILL shut down. And you have to drive in reverse until you get back into an area that’s acceptable. It was VERY VERY aggravating. Enough so that this would probably be the last time I’ll play the course. Play was slow only because of the people in from of us. Hole 10 is where the backup and slow play started. Very nice putting green but you can’t chip because there are signs everywhere telling you not to, but they do have a chipping green but it’s not as nice or good as the putting.green. Several holes had water hazards and most holes have a bunker or two just in the right spots that where it screws up your shot. 3 water coolers and a beverage cart girl every now and then. I believe I saw her 3 times during the game. But the carts were so aggravating that I probably won’t be returning.

I’ve had several people tell me to play 13 stones. So I was kind of excited about playing it. Played on a Saturday and the course was busy. Now, I understand the marshal trying to get everyone Thru so they can play. But we hadn’t even located our ball from our first shot and they allowed the group behind us to tee off. Actually I’m pretty sure they made the guys tee off by the way we were told to, when it was our turn. However we didn’t. We waited and the marshal kind of got a little mad about it. So we took our time addressing the ball slowly. Anyway. For $45 you would think the greens would have been in MUCH better condition. The very first hole had a tire track ( of you picture the green as a clock) had a tire track at 7 o’clock stretching all the way to 10 o’clock. Had several sprigs of weeds in it making for a very rough line to the hole. There were about 12 holes with weeds and one hole didn’t have ANY “green” grass on it at all. It was dirt and sprigs of weeds. I believe that was hole 12 or 13. But can’t remember. It was by far the very worst hole on the course. Several other holes had bald spots and it looks as bad f no one repairs their divot made on the green. And at the counter they have a bowl with FREE divot tools. People were taking the tools but looks like no one was using them. I know I repaired about 50 divots thru out the game. Only about 4 were mine. The marshal came by telling us to speed up our game, but we were being held up by the group in front of us. So there was no way we could without hitting into them. EVERY single tee box you almost needed a drill to get your tee in the ground. It was so hard and compacted that it took at least 30-45 seconds to get your tee in the ground. I hate having to fight to get my tee in the ground. The cart we had, had it’s issues as well. The bag strap was so tattered I couldn’t get the latch to feed into the latch lock. My partners strap was the same way. Smelled gas the whole time, so I believe we were leaking gas for it to have been that strong of a smell. The course layout was a good design. And I really think if they were to close down for about a month and put a little money into the place it could be great. There was no snack bar. They only had pre-packaged cold sandwiches to eat $3.50 ea. And no beer allowed from what I understood. I don’t drink beer anyways but I know a lot of people do. The driving range needs a net on the right side because it’s right next to the first hole and there are several golf balls in the fairway. So you’d need a orange ball on the first hole so you can determine which ball is yours. They use yellow and white practice balls on the range. The range itself is deep and somewhat wide. But they really need a catch net on the right side. There were 2 holes that had very clumpy sand. So good luck hitting out of the sand on those two if your ball goes into the trap. The rest of the disaster was my faulty game. But mix it in with everything else and it just all added up to a very disappointing trip.