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A little quirky, but I really enjoyed it. I would have liked to play it again, but our golf week was over. Get the sheet from the clubhouse that describes how to best play each hole -- if you've never played the course, you'll need it on at least a couple of the holes (like the first par 3).

If/when I get to golf in the Poconos again, this course is definitely on my list.

The restaurant was closed for a private function, so I can't comment on it.

Fairways and greens were in excellent shape. The rough, however, was worthy of a US Open. Unless you happened to walk directly over your ball, it was lost. And if you could find it, you still had a one-stroke penalty since you could only hit it about 40 yards. You might fare better with steel-shafted clubs, but that's not my game.

As for the layout, three negatives I recall off-hand. You have to play across the road on one of the holes. The fairway is a blind shot from the first tee box. And the 14th fairway is split by a creek with the second half being elevated -- another blind shot.

Nice shape for a muni, but unless you're (i) always in the fairway or (ii) a strapping young lad or (iii) they've cut the rough to under 4" or (iiii) you get a great rate on golfnow and don't care about the rough, I'd recommend you skip this one.

The restaurant serves excellent lunches.

Loved it. The rough is strange to us Yankees, and sometimes you had to be directly over your ball to see it if you wandered off the fairways. But the fairways and greens were in great shape. The greens are immense, but with no wicked pin placements or really difficult reads. They say you can walk 18, but you'd have to be in great shape; there is quite a bit of elevation change, and some of the green-to-teebox distances are substantial.