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Prairie View Golf Club

Played On 08/23/2017
2.0
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Fantastic Layout, Poorly Kept

I was looking forward to playing to finally playing this course after being one of the top ten in the state according to Golf Digest. I will start out by saying that the course layout is one of the best, if not the best, in the state! If you play the correct tees, it is a very fair golf course. However, the course maintenance seemed to be lacking from what it should be. All of the bunkers that I played out of were rock hard. Even after raking the bunker, it was hard to find that nice fluffy sand. The par 3 tee boxes were extremely torn up. It was hard to find a spot where you weren't standing in a divot hitting your ball. I also felt that it was odd that they aerated the greens already. I have nothing against aerating the greens at all. I completely understand that it has to be done to keep them nice, but normally that's not done for another month at least. The greens also looked like they were starving for water. It just didn't seem like the greens were healthy. The fairways and rough were in great condition. The fairways were fast and the rough was very manageable as long as you knew what you were doing.

The driving range was just ok for me. There were plenty of targets to hit, but I had to wait about 20 minutes just to get a small bucket of balls to warm up. There was no one in the academy for me to pay for the bucket. I had to wait until the person retrieving the balls from the range came in to purchase one.

Overall, I would say that the course is trying to push as many people out on the course as possible to get their premium payment instead of holding off a few rounds to perform the much needed maintenance and up keep on the high traffic areas. It was a shame to see the course in that shape since there's such great potential of what that course could be with the layout it has.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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