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This course has undergone a lot of changes recently. The course is much more open and forgiving now, as well as being a bit longer. I wish they had a driving range. The overall grass quality is better and the greens were looking really good.

I had fun playing here. My daughter came with me, her first round ever. This course is WEIRD. 9 hole course with some holes having separate tees for first and second nine. The course has high risks with low rewards to show for it. Many holes call for a driver due to length, but have blind narrow landing areas. Greens have HUGE drop-offs around sides that, when hit, are sending your ball inevitably to hazards or OB. Almost every green has a drop-off like this, at least one. The first and last hole are almost indescribable. First one is 245 yard par 4 where tees and green are level, but there is a 75-foot chasm in between. It runs parallel to the driving range, the mats are like 50 feet from right-most mat. Needless to say, the hole is literally COVERED with range balls, with some incoming if you can't make the carry and end up in the chasm.
The 9th (18th) hole is either a par 3 or par 5 depending on what hole you are on. The par three is a 100 yard shot straight up about a 75 to 100 foot terraced hill to a tiny green. The par 5 is a blind tee shot that lands on a downhill slope. You then have to hit up the 75 foot hill while on a 10* downslope. Interesting.

So, for starters, I played one of my best unofficial rounds of golf ever here. I will get to why it was unofficial in a minute. The course was busy that day, but play was still average, about 4 1/2 hrs to finish 18.
I have never played on fairways as lush and thick as these. I don't think the cart's tires touched the ground the fairways were so thick. In a good way. As in your ball was sitting up on super thick carpet, like hitting off a live hitting mat at a driving range. You could feel your feet move the direction of the blades of grass as you took a step, that thick. That said, there are very obvious drainage problems as there are bare dirt low spots and this almost white crabgrass around some greens and other places. No one seems to fix pitch marks on the greens, which is a real shame. I fixed at least 5 fresh ones on each green I was on, not including mine. Inconsiderate.
The bunkers were so bad it was like they came off a decade-abandoned course and placed there. Hardly any sand, atrocious drainage problems to the point of some of them having drain pipes just sitting in them. The sand is so hard packed and unraked that your shoes hardly make marks, and don't even think about getting a club into the sand. Just bounces off and skulls your ball. Off you miss every bunker and hit greens every time, it's perfect. Otherwise you will be SEVERELY punished for average shots.