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Wow, where to begin. First off, I try to stay positive about new courses that have just opened recently. I don't know if I'd call this a golf course or a glorified gravel pit with good greens. If you are a high handicap, do yourself a favor and stay away from Sage Run. I'm a 3 handicap and I shot 78 here and still didn't enjoy it. There are endless sand traps in the middle of tight fairways that are also surrounded by another ring of fescue and gravel rocks which make finding a fairway even with a decent tee shot mission impossible. I thought I hit a few decent tee shots and ended up in fairway bunkers or the fescue that surrounds them. You'll also spend a LOT of time looking for golf balls just off the edge of the fairways in the fescue.

Rocks, Rocks, and more Rocks!
Put gorilla tape on your clubs or bring an old set.
Even if you are a solid plus hcp or scratch golfer, I would say avoid this course at all costs. The fescue that lines almost all of the fairways is filled with rocks. If you value your thousand dollar irons or new wedges don't bring them to this course. You will ding, dent, and scratch them at this course.

Layout:
Very scenic piece of property. However, you end up with lots of blind tee shots uphill, around blind doglegs, and the fairways are very hard to hit on many holes. Hole 3 is an impossible par 5 with a green that needs to be bulldozed. It's a huge mounded turtleback green, and the greens are so fast you can't even get a ball close to the hole, and even if you do you'll probably 3 putt or roll it off the green back into the fairway. The greens were impeccable, very very fast/firm, but rolled true. However, there is far too much undulation to have greens rolling at an 11-12 on the stimp. Expect to 3 putt more than you think, even if you are inside of 10 feet on your approach shots. All of rocks in the fescue lining the fairways are very annoying. You should never have that many rocks at a golf course. Whoever the architect is for this course, must not be a true golfer.

Recommendation:
Go play Sweetgrass or Timberstone and save yourself the headache of Sage "No Fun" Run. At least those courses are both super scenic and super fun to play for all handicaps and you won't damage your clubs hitting rocks.

Old Kinderhook is a great course that challenges the golfer mentally. What I loved about the course is that it challenges you to position your shots on each hole. On some of the challenging holes, you are always thinking about your shots, where to leave your tee shot, and where to hit your land your approach shots. The greens were impeccable, great bent grass greens with good speed. They were around a 10.5 on the stimp when we were there and each green was in great shape. Strongly recommend this course if you are in the Ozarks!!!