Timbourke

First time playing this course and overall enjoyed it and will play again. The tee boxes needed to be mowed and some needed to be reseeded. The fairways are Bermuda and this past winter has taken a toll on this grass resulting in bare spots. Traps were inconsistent with some having almost no sand/hard-pan to others being soft and fluffy. Greens were in great shape, small and average speed. Would have liked to see more undulation on the greens. Course was understaffed and although we saw a drink cart at the proshop, the girl never came out onto the course. Tee offed at 11:30 and finished our round by 3 with a bathroom break at the turn, awesome pace of play!

I was very excited about playing Lake Presidential for the first time after hearing and reading so many good things about it, boy was I surprised. To be fair the day before the course received over an 1.5" of rain in an hour and it was still very wet 24 hours later. The surprises started right away when the starter asked us to "Replace our divots because as you will see no else does." Wow was he right, every fairway was littered with divots. Another issue was the lack of/dead grass everywhere. There were bare spots in the fairway, rough and along the faces of bunkers. One green was infected with moss. Speaking of bunkers, what sand there was was like concrete. Again I understand the rain packs it down but I did not see why they could not have raked them in the morning to fluff them up to help it dry them out.

The layout is nice and with the course conditions fixed Lake Presidential is a nice course but at full price this course is way overpriced.