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They lost control of the course yesterday. They had a group of ill-disciplined golfers playing from the wrong tees (blue). We waited for 7 minutes on every hole, despite assurances from the marshall that the pace was about to improve. It did not.
5 hours!
Plus, we played white tees which could not have been more inaccurate regarding slope. I’ve never played a 104 slope before. This course is closer to a 124 with smallish undulating greens, massive waste bunkers and relatively narrow fairways.
Conditioning good but super tight and fast fairways which usually rolls you into the cabbage.

I was a little upset. I made tee time over the phone and they charged me something like $50 per person ($270 in all) for not making reservation online but they failed to tell me that over the phone. So I get to the course and have my guests and I learn it’s $270. If I had been alone, I would have walked. But I had guests. It’s a nice course which I will not review here but no way it’s worth $270. I’m playing Merion next month and it’s cheaper.

We liked this course (except for the first par 5 which is grossly ill-conceived). The conditioning was very good and layout fair and interesting. Having said that, the starter made a big mistake of spacing foursomes five minutes apart to accommodate a big group. There were four foursomes on the first hole. I hope this was a one-time occurrence because we will not play there again if not.