cldasher

Perfect condtions on Mother's Day 2023. 72 degress. Partly Cloud.
We had one twosome of members play through us, but otherwise saw no other golfers on the course.
Tees and fairways were in great shape. Greens were average, appearing to have been aerated within 4-5 weeks, I would guess. Rough was high and, along with the stacked sod bunkers, clearly the course's defense.
This would be a great course to enjoy and play if you didn't have the $300 green fee in the back of your mind. It's just not anything special beyond a $100 semi-private course you would play back home. The starter and clubhouse attendent were very friendly and helpful, but beyond a handful of tees and cheap ballmarkers, The Greenbrier does not present itself as a top notch resort course. No towell in the cart, etc.

Overall very good experience.
Course conditions were excellent but a deluge the previous day required cart-path only, but our 11:10 AM tee time did not have anybody in front of us, so pace of play was good for our foursome.
Staff can always make or break the experience, and everybody we encountered over the course of the day was friendly and welcoming. I'd left my credit card at home by mistake and clubhouse gentlemen was very patient and understanding as I figured out what payment options I had. Starter was friendly and informative, particularly regarding the courses quirky routing that requires you to play holes 10-11 before making the turn at the halfway house. Beverage girl was very friendly and fun as well, getting to us at least 4 times during our round, making a fine Tito's Transfusion and cheering loudly as one of our group rolled in a coast to coast birdie put on one of the par 3's.
I'd complain about it being a bit too pricey, but if I'm willing to walk, those rates are a bit more affordable. Par 3's on this course are pretty uninspiring.

First and foremost, anybody with a bad thing to say about the staff at Tod Hill Farm can go pound sand. Nice people everywhere. Particularly the starter, who knew what he was doing by holding us off from teeing it up until the group ahead had walked off the first tee. It was cart path only so it was a 4+ hour round, but never because we were waiting on the group ahead of us. He also talked the two froggy twentysomethings in our bunch out of the green tees down to the whites. Good call.
I''ve played THF twice around this time of year both times. I'm committed to going back in the summer to see what it's like greened up. It was pretty shabby on the tees and fairways. Greens had been punched. It would be absolutley amazing if the investors put some money in this place. The layout is amazing. Have fun. It's a amazing gem.

Got rained on a good bit, but my son and I had a great time. Course was in very good shape, particularly since most area courses had just aerated, these greens were in excellent shape.

Had an 8:40 Sunday morning Tee-time. Arrived around 8:15 and was promptly checked in by a friendly gentleman in the well-appointed golf shop.
Starter (Dick or Buck?) with his canine partner (Willy?) were friendly and allowed us to tee off as a twosome at exactly 8:40, cautioning us it would be slow, as there were a couple of foursomes ahead of us. It's all about managing expectations. It was a little more waiting than you might like, mainly due to the fact that it appeared one member of the foursome ahead was either not a fan or unfamiliar with "Ready Golf" preferring instead to sit his large posterior self in the cart until everybody else had hit, then sauntering over to his ball and maybe hitting it, or maybe going back to the cart for another club. (If you had a 8:30 tee time on 8/9/20, maybe you can work with your buddy on his preshot routine.

The greens were perfect, but it's obvious this course gets a lot of play the non-ball repair crowd. Fairways are a bit uneven with several varieties grass competing for the dirts attention.
A full snack bar was available, but it does stink to be a mile from Sierra Nevada and you can't get a beer at this course (permit issues).

Nothing but good things to say about the course.From tee box to green in great shape. Had to play cart path only due to heavy rains during the week.Made for a long round.
The most frustrating thing was the pace of play that I felt could have been easily avoided. We had an 11:00 Tee-time on a Saturday, so your expectation is it's going to be crowded and just be ready for such. Nevertheless, I called early to double-check on us possibly getting off earlier. "Oh, no sir, we're completely booked". Fine, we ok with 11, we'll get there early and hit a few balls. Arrived at 10 to a nearly deserted parking lot, and, wait for it...........no driving range. (Full disclosure, there is a spot with 8 mats and a small net).

OK, so we asked again, can we go ahead and get off a little early as a twosome? "Again, the very nice (if not too knowledgable) young lady, assured us it was booked solid. So, my son and I stood there on the putting green by the 1st tee and from 10:00-1100 and watched one threesome and one foursome tee off, both after 10:30. Finally, we were paired with another twosome and allowed to tee-off at 11:00. We were then constantly dealing with twosomes playing behind us.
The only defense I can think of is that the course allows the local members to load up on tee-times, and then cancel at the last minute if they aren't happy with the course conditions. I definitely heard the foursome of ladies that went off before us discussing not playing because of the cart path only situation.

I case if we're really going full disclosure, I could have just been in a salty mood all day when I discovered their restaurant was closed, but more to the point, there was no beer to be purchased.