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Played Timbers yesterday for the first time in five years, hoping it had improved some in my time away. Used to play here often in the early 2000s, and stopped when its conditioning slowly deteriorated. This course was never great. It’s a bad layout and it obviously lacks the kind of funding needed to properly maintain the course, but man is it bad. The fairways are complete muck. They clearly don’t drain well, and the course makes almost no effort to fill in divots. Vegetation off the fairways is completely overgrown, likely untouched in 15 years. I’m sure this place would love to blame its current woes on COVID complications but it’s just a bad track. To fix it would require a total overhaul, better drainage and a ton of tree maintenance. A friend of mine had his son with him and so he inquired about a cart for nine holes at twilight. The course told him it would be $36 more for the two of them to ride nine holes together. It’s madness that Howard County, one of the richest counties in the US, has its main public track that is this bad.