Golfingduck62

I have been golfing this course for a few years now and I have always been impressed especially when the improvements began. I understand when a course increases rates to cover cost of improvement. What I don’t understand is the massive over-booking RP has been doing over the past few months. It’s impossible to play a 3.5-4 hr round with all the booking going on.
On top of that the rates are higher than they ever been but I am no longer seeing the benefits for the cost. From about 11:00 AM on there is a line waiting for carts. My previous few rounds (except for yesterday) started about 45 min late.
They used to sell a couple different sizes of range buckets which has decayed into charging a $10 flat rate to fight over who gets balls from a community basket which is the equivalent of a huge bag of shag balls. The final disappointment of my last round for a while at RP was being told to speed up our play in the middle of the 18th undoubtedly due to people awaiting carts due to massive overbooking. We had been on the heels of several groups of slow beginners for our entire round.
I have also seen several instances of five-somes being allowed and that is unacceptable. Those are typically compromised of younger players, still learning the game, and never being educated on the rules and courtesies by the staff.
Time to tighten it up RP…. You were my fav place to play.

I golf every weekend and we decided to try out Eastwood. The course has the same sad feeling I am seeing on many courses these days. It appears as though the owners have given up. Not that this to cast shame on them as it is a considerable undertaking to maintain a single course, let alone multiple (which I have heard is the case). This course has such potential and I'm sure given the right amount of TLC it could draw the caliber of players that go to those courses I can't afford. The neighborhoods surrounding the course are fairly young (not referring to the inhabitants) and well kept. Maybe there were just too many courses built and this the natural order of things in the land of supply and demand.