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Beware the sanded greens. They don’t have a course alert up for it but they treated and sanded all the greens but didn’t even roll them or anything. Whoever cuts these holes does a terrible job. Every few holes you find a “volcano” around the cup. It’s like a putt putt hole! Chunks of sand everywhere. We played at 12:40pm, somewhere around hole 10 (2:15pm) a greens keeper finally rode up from behind us and put the tee markers out, I guess he was a little late to work and no one else could be bothered. There are rocks in the fairways. Like, in the middle of the fairway you could put a gouge into a club, definitely play “roll em in the fairway” at this course. Don’t trust their yardage markers, use a range finder or an app.

I enjoy playing this golf course, the layout is enjoyable for golfers of all abilities. Their tee placement is on point and reasonable, although I the white tees did seem to be a little further up than they should have been on some holes but like i said, it still presented a reasonable challenge from those tees. The greens were plush and receptive, no bare spots or crab grass, but they were slow. The fairways are in as equally good condition and the bunkers were well tended to. Some of the course maintensive staff were indifferent to our existence but the people inside the golf shop and at the snack bar were an absolute pleasure to be around. Hank in the golf shop in particular was a stand out in my experience at Chapel Ridge. We ate lunch there, the onion rings were fantastic. Would definitely recommend. Only issue was that they didn’t have a starter at the first hole so we had a bunch of groups teeing off one after the other and it was an absolute terror by the time we got to the back nine. They aren’t sticklers about pairing you up with people which is nice but they definitely need a starter and a marshal to keep everyone spaced out. I didn’t see one the entire time I was out there. Definitely an enjoyable course and I will be returning, hopefully to faster greens and a more consistent tempo of play.