James2347328

A friend of mine and I played the Mountain Course yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the course. Every hole very different than the others. Beautiful setting. A lot of elevation changes and subtle bumps near green to make chips difficult. Greens very fast especially going away from the mountains.

The front nine is your typical parkland setting. The back nine is the newer nine located in an old quarry with many big elevation changes. Both nines are well maintained. Would play it again. Very interesting course.

The first nine is pretty ordinary. (Relately flat and uninteresting). Then the back nine begins. Very scenic and interesting which makes for fun golf.

I noticed on the scorecard that the slope was 139 which is higher than any course I have ever played from the white tees. It’s even harder than that.I don’t mind a diffult course as long as it is fair. I should have listened to a golfer guy we met in an elevator a week ago who said he didn’t care for the course because he thought it punished too many good shots. I didn’t know what he was talking about until we played the first few holes. I know now. Our group has an average age of 72 and we felt beat up after our round. A scratch golfer who can pick his landing area and make the ball stop quickly on the greens may think it is great.

I particularly enjoyed a relatively fast pace of play at a big discount from Golf Now yesterday. The greens were a little slower than I expected and the sand traps are always the worst in the area (either very crusty or rocky). It's too bad that a course of this calibre has such terrible traps.