Smurfs

Playing with two new golfers so I chose the last tee time on Saturday. The Marshall came and said that the 5th hole would have to be our last but there was plenty of daylight left. We finished the 5th hole at 5:15 pm. I think we could have gotten at least 2 more holes in if not three more. Why they shut the course down so early on Saturday particularly since the weather was so nice and the course was packed earlier I have no clue. The driving range mats were horrible and most of the mats had no rubber tees to use for your driver.

Got to the course early (40 min) to warm-up on the range and putting green. Bought a small bucket of balls in the pro shop and went to the range. Got to the range and the starter told me that the range was closed. I said no one told the pro shop. they were cutting the grass. Isn't that something that is suppose to happen early in the am and not at noon? Went to the putting green and one of the workers said he needed to close at least half of the putting green to water it. I should have just gone home. He needed to be watering the tee boxes because the were so hard that you had a difficult time getting a tee in. You needed a drill. A hammer would have just broken the tee. The fairways were so hard that hitting them was like hitting the cart path and your ball was likely to take a wild bounce which happened several times. I normally like this course but i am considering not playing here for a while and try some other courses in the area.