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I always have issues with people who trash a perfectly acceptable municipal course, "Oh, my God, it's not Augusta!" Mallard Head is the type of course I grew up playing. Billy Hightower and I would get one of our parents to drop us off at the local muni in Richmond, Virginia, and we would pay the $6.00 green fees, walk, and play all day; I mean, all day. We would grab a couple of hot dogs after the first 18 and then play another 18 or even 27. Mallard Head has the typical muni problems; occasional clumps of crab grass in a fairway, a bad spot or two on a green, one grass rake per bunker; but it was a wonderful course for an informal day. At my age I can't putt any better on a Bermuda green than I could at Pebble Beach. I particularly loved the goat pasture that was next to the 15th fairway. It was like old times. And for $35.00 for BOTH of us for nine, I'll be back more than a few times.