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They take your temperature and ask if you’ve been around anyone who had had COVID at the gate. Clubhouse pretty much closed except for check in so bring your own food and drinks. The guy who checked us in had a mask but saw multiple other staff walking around the clubhouse not wearing masks. Kind of odd considering how cautious the lady at the gate made it seem they were being.

Paid $20 with a cart. Course was in the best condition I’ve probably ever seen it. Still not top of the line but the greens rolled smooth. We’ll see how it holds up. Some thick rough if you aren’t hitting it straight to contend with but nothing too difficult. Played a little slow around 3:45-4:00 hours to play the nine holes twice. But we only had a twosome which they were surprised we were able to book I guess they’re only allowing three or foursomes. Great deal at $20 for a Saturday morning will play again soon.

Paid $175 for a Saturday tee time at 12:20. Should have been no more than $80 for this quality of a course. Played in a foursome with friends. Fine experience except for ranger “Al”. He drove up on us as my playing partner was moving his ball off a dirt patch on the drivable par 4 8th hole mumbling something about a penalty for an unplayable lie if he moved his ball. Thanks Al. He then asked what our tee time was and said we were playing too slow because the tee in front of us was open. We told him that the group in front of us had teed off early and was already off the first hole before we had tee off at our scheduled time. Also the group behind us was not even at the tee yet. He aggressively sped off toward the tee behind us and returned as we were walking off the green saying the group behind us was pulling up to the tee. Again, thanks Al. At this point he repeated we were playing too slow and that we needed to catch up to the group in front of us. At this point we reminded him that we had teed off 20 min behind the group in front of us. Again he seemed to have no comprehension of what we were telling him and told us to speed up play. We finished the front 9 in 1 hour 50 minutes. Pretty reasonable for a foursome. We stopped at the turn to pick up our sandwiches we had ordered ahead of time. One of my playing partners heard Al over the starter‘a radio questioning if we had stopped at the turn for food. Thanks Al. We ended up catching up to the threesome in front of us after 14. Al was nowhere to been seen telling them to play faster. We finished the round under 4 hours. We played at the same pace the whole round. Never saw the threesome behind us either again and I ended up shooting 76 in probably my last round at Strawberry Farms.

All other members of staff were great especially the starter on duty when we came through at the turn who told us not to worry about “Al”. Appreciate him I’m sure he’s had to deal with the fallout from Al’s on course conduct before. Won’t play here for over $80 again. Just not worth it.