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I’m a scratch golfer here and I’ve played and travelled across North America and competed junior golf.

I will start with the positives:
This course is unbelievable for what they have done and made in such a short time. Let’s not forget this course was built out of flat land. When you play and see elevation changes, just keep that in mind. It’s remarkable and often really overlooked.

It’s a long and difficult course but they have cut the rough down to make it more enjoyable.

They are moving extremely fast to make this course proper. What I mean by that is they opened the course early and in a matter of 3 months. Built a full blown driving range, temp clubhouse is coming up, all bathroom/shacks are being built, pairing of asphalt is going in. It’s great to see this happening so quick.

It’s extremely long, and such a great variations in shots. This is a course where I used almost every single club in my bag and that speaks for itself. Real golfers knows what that means.

This is course that you go to when you are going on a. Golf trip. I haven’t experienced this until I went to my destination course. It gives that vibe to me when I play here. It just feels special.

The negatives and areas of improvement:
— like the person below said, early in the season the fairways were tough. The grass and dirt foundation was not there earlier in the year. But that is “expected” for a new virgin course. Now a better way to approach it is to delay the opening. But honestly I appreciate them rushing this out
- Cost, you pay to play one of the courses in the country.
- non members coming to the course. Obviously they are trying to create the hype. I respect that, Calgary is going through a tough time.
- initially the greens weren’t holding any balls (May). I just played again after 3 months off and now the greens are really nice and holding. I do agree, there is 2 hole where the digits on the greens are not repaired by the players. This comes with non-members and people who are just trying to mess around the course. But the course should give free divot repair tools to the lower level golfers.
- cart fees are standard but like there a bit of stretch
-trees need to mature.

Sounds like I have more negative than positives but I want to show the negatives for the course to see and improve on.