Staincat

After playing Nayar the day before, I had a feeling that the Norman course would be even better being a PGA tour stop. We got a deal time for $94US each and it definitely far exceeded our expectations. This course was a little more challenging. Longer holes and more water to get in your head. Some well placed bunkers and big trees in some fairways to make it tougher. Immaculate fairways so good that I felt bad about taking divots. Greens ran fast! Our caddy Gabriel shaved at least 5 strokes off my game with great course management on club selection and he read the greens perfectly. I never 3 putted the entire round. I saw some other posts that were nonsense. Beer is not $15US each. We got 5 Corona cans off the beer cart for 360 pesos so that works out to about $6 CDN each. Also,the airplanes do fly by on occasion but if they bother you that much you probably shouldn't play golf if you get rattled that easy. Saw a 10-12 foot crocodile on 16. Sorry, no picture. I decided I want to keep my leg.

Course is beautiful and forgiving. Definitely would not be able to navigate from hole to hole without a caddy. Somome complained in another reviewer about 2 holes being 15 minutes away? I believe they are talking about holes 6 and 7? More like 5 minutes.

Played Sabal and Royal. Both were challenging with high winds that day. Wind and water are not a good combo for scoring in golf. The Sabal course seems more narrow as it wound through houses. Overall a great deal for the money. I paid $30 for an after 3pm tee time and they let us start early.

I was there on a colder and wet day. That probably scared away many people so I was done in 3.5 hours.

The fairways are wide and the greens are mostly evelvated and in great shape. I liked the back to back par 5's on the back 9.