chazzykk

Booked a foursome hot deal prepaid tee time on Golfnow.com. @ 936. Course was in great shape. One of our guys was running a little late. The guys in the pro shop brought him down to us on the 1st fairway. That was nice & they had no problem doing it. The starter was nice & informative, (Bob I think) as we had 2 players that haven't played there before. Everything was going great! One of the Marshall's even went back to hole #1 for my buddy's club, that he forgot & brought it to us by hole #4. By hole #7 a Marshall in a black shirt, the rest had bright yellow on. Told us we were a hole & half behind the pace & to hurry up. Yes the group in front of us was gone but the group behind us wasn't waiting AT ALL! Then when we're driving from #10 green to #11 tee box & 2 Marshall's pass us. First one in bright yellow waves & says nothing then the Marshall in the black shirt tells us we're now 12 minutes & 2.5 holes holes behind & if we don't hurry up we'll be asked to skip a hole. We look back & the group behind us (which is a three some) is still teeing off, which we tell him. He then tells us that everyone is complaining about the pace because of us. Couple minutes later we receive a message on the gps saying we'll have to skip a hole if we don't hurry up. So now he's in our head, couple of us shank one off the tee then proceed to find more bunkers than usual for a solid 3 holes. Golf has a lot of mental focus & when your told to hurry up, it makes things worse. Oh & all the water stations were empty on the front 9 by 10am. Some reviews warned me of such things, guess they were right! Probably won't come back here for awhile now......

Pretty nice course! 15 minutes from downtown via über if you don't have a car or the trolley stops right next to the course but is about a 30 minute ride. Played the Presidio/Mission. 8am was the first tee time on Presidio. It was myself & another single & we had no one in front of us, so that was really nice. Greens were nice, true & fast, nothing like the practice putting green. John the starter was real nice guy! The only bummer was "cart path only" because of a rainstorm the day before, not the courses fault. That kinda made the gps on the cart not as helpful. Otherwise it was a great course after reading a few bad reviews, mainly on the Friars course. Get out early as the wind is like clockwork around 10ish. We finished in under 4 hours, which rarely happens!!