Lives
Asheville, NC
Handicap
5-9
Age
55-64
Gender
Male
Skill
Advanced
Plays
A few times a week

Review Statistics

Average Rating

4.4
4.4
Total 10 Reviews

Rating Breakdown

10 Reviews
5 Stars
6
4 Stars
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3 Stars
2
2 Stars
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1 Stars
0
Recommended Courses
10
Not Recommended Courses
0
Helpful Votes Count
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First Review
10/07/2019
Last Review
06/16/2023

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Black Mountain Golf Course

Played On 06/15/2023
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Mixed bag

Wonderful staff. Great views. Solid greens. Potential to be a great course.

Pace of play was terrible. Tee boxes were dirt.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 09/18/2023

Hi, pyattbl! Thank you so much for leaving us with your feedback. We value our customer experience, so your review is important to us. We will make note and we hope to see you back at Black Mountain Golf Course!

Pembroke Lakes Golf & Racquet Club

Played On 01/02/2023
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate

Crystal Coast Country Club

Played On 06/05/2022
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

So much fun in spite of the gales!

Crystal Coast offers a great mix of tight ‘resort course’ routing with a few good ‘hitters’ holes. It was so much fun to play in spite of the 20 MPH plus winds that day. There is just something interesting about aiming 15 yards right and watching the ball move sideways toward the target. Yes, there were a few spotty patches in the fairways, but all else was pretty nice. Go visit.

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

Crossings at Grove Park, The

Played On 06/03/2022
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Would try it again…

Pros:

Great layout!
Fair hitters’ course
Beautiful clubhouse
Nice staff

Cons:

They started groups on 10 just before we made the turn. Pace of play ground to a halt. We quit after 14.
Greens hadn’t recovered from punching - very inconsistent.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
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Commented on 06/16/2022

We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 5-star experience, so we always welcome reviews like this that provide feedback for improvement. Always feel free to reach out to our team if there is any way we can help. Thank you for playing Lonnie Poole Golf Course at North Carolina State University.

Rams Hill Golf Club

Played On 12/31/2021
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Windy weather
Used cart

Well worth the trip

Although it's quite a haul to Borrego Springs from San Diego, it was absolutely worth the trip. It's another world out there - Palm Springs-like mountain views and desert rough. And when the winds pick up like they did that day, man, that back nine gets LONG! But I loved it all!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Maderas Golf Club

Played On 12/30/2021
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great escape from cloudy San Diego

It was rainy and cloudy in San Diego, but the trip up to Maderas gave us mostly clear skies and a nice day to play. The course was in winter condition, but honestly it's better than anything back home in NC right now. The surroundings are beautiful and the layout is challenging but fair. Best of all, EVERYONE on staff was amazingly nice and accommodating. Go play Maderas

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Springdale Country Club

Played On 09/07/2020
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Despite the negatives, a hidden gem

Despite the rough edges, Springdale is an out-of-the-way treat. Here are the pros/cons:

Pros:
Interesting layout - bring lots of different shots for your tee game
Beautiful surroundings - a mix of flat valley holes and twisting, changing elevated holes
Friendliest staff you will ever meet
Bunkers were pretty nice - a rarity this year
There were signs of maintenance everywhere (verticut fairways, plugged greens). They will fix it up.

Cons:
Pace of play was terrible - over 5 hours (but it was Labor Day)
Fairways were thin due to exorbitant rains this summer
Some greens showed significant bare spots

All in, we will return later this fall after the course has a chance to continue healing from a long, wet summer. But we will book an early tee time to try and avoid the slow pace of play.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Cummings Cove Golf & Country Club

Played On 10/12/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Good course, spotty service

It's worth a drive off the beaten path to get to Cummins Cove. The course layout is a typical mountain course (i.e. tight, up and down, not terribly long, with a premium on keeping the ball in play). Greens were absolutely perfect, and fairways were nice with just a few bare/under repair spots. The layout is a little quirky, but it fits into the site. Moreover, some of the mountain vistas are absolutely spectacular. I thoroughly enjoyed playing there!

My negatives surround the staff. I understand this is mostly a members' course, and those guys come and go without a lot of help. But we had to wait quite a while to even get acknowledged upon entering the shop. The guy manning the counter didn't seem too excited to even get us registered and on the course.

Ditto getting a cart. They were supposed to be "just outside" per the front counter guy, but they were nowhere to be found. I finally had to lead the counter guy down the hill to the cart shack where we interrupted the cart attendant's meal to bring a cart out. Just weird.

The server/bartender in the restaurant was awesome, though, and that really helped balance things.

All in, the on-course experience outweighed the off-course, and I would certainly go back!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Cleghorn Golf & Sports Club

Played On 10/06/2019
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

A gem

This time of year our Western NC courses normally show their wear and tear. Fairways are typically weedy and thin, and greens are questionable. Cleghorn couldn't have been more different! The fairways were plush Bermuda, but they weren't mud bogs. And the greens were undulating, true, quick, and consistently maintained. I don't recall seeing a spot of burned out turf or ratty green anywhere.

The layout is up and down (as advertised) - you won't get many flat shots. But most lies were level, allowing you plenty of opportunity to get a good swing on the ball. Tee shots are fair - there is room to spray the ball a bit. But the rough and woods are thick. Anything far offline is probably going to be lost. The greens offered many tiers with some tough pin positions possible (we saw some). We had to play for the ball to roll out a little more on the greens than is normal at some of our other area courses, but that added to the challenge. The overall setting is a beautiful old plantation, and it offers some pretty stunning views.

We'll be back!

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