JerryP2

Rumor has it this course was sold and is going private again. Good thing! Current owners doing the bare minimum. They have completely given up on the bunkers. Greens OK, fairways are rough, not being well maintained. They should be charging discounted rates!

Normally Watters Creek is always in great shape. Not sure what happened but they let the greens really deteriorate! They have way too many divots that aren’t being repaired. Had too may putts knocked off course by hitting a divot. It was really surprising and disappointing because Watter Creek usually has outstanding conditions on their greens. To be fair, the tee boxes and fairways were fine. Hopefully they get on top of this.

The grass around every green is a sloppy, muddy mess. Since we haven’t had any rain lately, they must be over-watering. Multiple times we hit a ball 5-10 yards off the green and couldn’t find it because it was buried in the mud. And the greens aren't in great shape to begin with. They shouldn’t be charging full/normal price for this course. There are far too many courses close by in much better shape. I won’t be playing here again anytime soon.

Everything was great with the exception the service in the pro shop. I asked for range balls to warm up. The man behind the counter looked out the window and said "just hit the balls out there". I went outside and found about 5-6 balls laying around the range. I went back inside and then he decides to give me some balls out of a large trash can. Why couldn't he have done that to begin with??

Played the Friday after Thanksgiving, when a lot of people have the day off. The pro shop had one guy workiing in it, both checking people in and answering the phone to take reservations. Needless to say, the check-in process took 15+ minutes. No beverage cart, on a Friday after a holiday. Bunkers were a thin layer of top soil. Our golf cart's battery started running out on hole 16 and we eventually had the other twosome push us to the club house. Once there, several people asked for our working cart because the course had run out of them. I also noticed at least two other carts being towed in because they died. The club house can't make a burger or fries, nothing more than cold sandwiches. The urinal in the men's room was broken. The pace of play was 4.5+ hours.
It's a shame because I enjoy the course layout.

I made a tee time reservation through Golfnow and received a confirmation e-mail. However when I showed up at the course 40 min prior to my start time, I was told they had no reservation for me. I offered to show them my e-mail reservation on my iPhone but they said it didn't matter. They had no reservation and they had a senior tournament on the course. My tee time was for 10 AM. They eventually got me on the course at 10:30.

The bunkers were in terrible shape due to heavy rains earlier in the week.

So basically Golfnow charged me $2+ for nothing.

Regards,

Jerry Powlen