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This course shut down to upgrade their greens a couple of years ago. Yesterday, it seem like they were growing grass. The greens were extremely slow and if you run your hands across them you would think you were in your backyard. It’s hard supporting the city courses when the don’t take care of their investment. It’s under new management now and losing steam.

This course challenges you in every aspect of your game. They are know for the speed of their greens. They are also know for some of the questionable pin placements. As I mentioned their greens are always fast and a missed four footer could end up being a three putt because of the location. However, I expect that but let’s talk about the rough in the fairway around the greens. It was brutal and unfair. There needed to me Marshalls in the fairway to help find your ball. I stuck a iron in the rough and I could not see the face. My group lost several balls just off the fairway but still in play most places. We had multiple eyes on the ball and still was unable to find it within the time limit. So I guess I’ll be back when I am 100 percent accurate from the tee.

Tee boxes were like bunkers. Did not mention the greens were being aerated. Fairways were not in good condition.

I have played this course three times. Once during the week and twice on the weekend. When I played on the weekend both times my tee time fell behind the neighborhood members. Just think 5 tee times with foursomes going off one after the other without a starter. Needless to say we watched every shot of the group ahead of us. There were some tee boxes where three different groups waited. It was not a good time. Plus, no courtesy or golf etiquette they rode up on us at several tee boxes blasting their music. This will be my last weekend playing at this course.

This course like all the courses in Charlotte has done a great job renovating the course. But come on man get that green speed up. It felt like putting in your backyard.

I understand we are in fall season and the leaves are a part of the course. But this course went to far. So there are plenty of trees on this course and under normal conditions a ball in the trees would not equal to a lost ball. However, they have blown all the leaves in a pile located near the trees that came up to your ankles when you stepped in the pile. There has to be a better solution than this and I haven’t seen this done by any other courses. So be aware if you hit it a little left or right go ahead and grab another ball.

I have played Rocky River more times than I can count. Today, was probably the worst. My first issue is there was not heads up about the greens being aerated. Next, I was sent out with another single behind foursomes and threesomes. There were about five tee boxes closed so we were playing from the tips. As a golfer pace is everything and we waited from the tee box to the green on every hole.

Play at your own risk is my take away for today. I knew that the course would be packed and a round under four hours was a stretch. With the course sending twosomes mixed in between foursomes made for a long day.

I am really surprised that there is not a starter here on a regular basis. I had a 12:39 tee time as a single. I wasn’t told if the other guys had shown up or not. So I went to warm up and kept looking for a starter. But what I saw was players going off at their own leisure. I saw three straight twosomes tee off. I did go off a few minutes early with a threesome. The group ahead of us was extremely slow hitting more than their share of shots for a score of par. For 13 holes we watched and waited. Finally, we let another twosome play through. Immediately they started yelling and hitting into the group. It was not a good day because I did not expect to play a five hour round on a Thursday. But there was no Marshall keeping up the pace or starter pairing up groups to ensure things moved along smoothly.