mitchtferguson

I recommended this course to our group because I had read great reviews and heard good things from some buddies of mine. The layout is unique and the fairways and tee boxes were in great shape, but 16 of the 18 greens had giant dead spots. Of the 16 with dead spots about 10 had less than 50% grass on the whole green. I'm not sure how they got like this, but I have a good guess. We played from 10am-2pm in 95 degree heat and not once did we see someone watering the bent grass greens. During a typical round in our area you will have to wait several times during a round in extreme heat for a greenskeeper to water the bentgrass. Never happened. I liked the course and would like to play it again, but not until the greens are fixed. Worst greens I have seen in a long time.

I have played this course multiple times, but this was my first round on the new bermuda greens. It was a little difficult to judge the speed because they were being sanded (in what seemed like a random order) as we played. We would play a couple holes that hadn't been sanded then 6 in a row that were and then 2 more that were not sanded again. The bermuda was barely out of dormancy also which made them even faster. The sanded greens were playable, but bumpy the slick unsanded greens were bordering on unfair/unplayable. I'm sure in another month or so they will have punched and have enough new growth to be able to manipulate the speed to a more reasonable level.