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I will start with the positive: the greens were in great shape. They were firm and rolling true. Now the bad: The fairways were patchy at best. If you don't have lush fairways in mid -October in PA, you are doing something wrong. We played lift clean and place so that alleviated that problem but no preferred lies in the rough, which again has ruts, divots everywhere and is generally in poor condition. The most disappointing part of the course are the greenside bunkers. No sand at all. It's like hitting off of a concrete sidewalk. How hard would it be to put some sand in there? I have a hard time understanding how the superintendent that made the greens so nice puts such little effort in to the bunkers. I heard the the high school state championship is going to be there in a week or so. For the sake of those kids, PUT SOME SAND IN YOUR BUNKERS!!

The layout is a short, but challenging. Lots of elevation changes and you need to bring your range finder to every tee to decide what club to hit. I hit driver, 3 wood, 3 hybrid and 5 iron off the tee on the par 4's so you really need to think your way around the course. They 2 biggest needs are: Sand in the bunkers and major tree trimming. The bunkers are like rocks. You cannot play a normal bunker shot from them. Several holes have trees that taken away the line of play that the architect designed from the tee. The par 3 8th is almost completely blocked out by trees coming from short and right of the green. It is a tiny green to begin with but to have it blocked by the trees makes it nearly impossible to hit from the blue tees. I enjoyed my round but this course would be a gem if it got a little more attention in those 2 areas.