jd83187

I've played this course for over 8 years and have never experienced what I have in the last few weeks.
It seems to me that Shadowglen got greedy and tried to pack as many groups as they could in the morning. The course had groups starting on both 1 and 10.

We teed off at 6:56 am from #10 and made the turn right around 9 am. As we got to the box, we noticed there were 9 people waiting. A group of 5 and another 4. We didn't tee off on 1 until 9:35!

It's a hot Texas summer and everyone is looking to play early. I get that. But this course has taken it a bit too far.
We constantly had to wait for the group ahead of us. There was no way to establish a rhythm of play and our round ended up running just over 5.5 hours--unbelievable. The marshall had no control of the traffic and was simply directing people to make the turn. When we asked about the high volume he simply replied: "its hot so people want to play early".
The whole point of getting our early is to avoid the heat and FINISH early.
I really hope the right people see this and implement changes soon.

Let me start by saying that I've played this course numerous times and it is typically a very enjoyable round--which is why I don't mind making the 45 mins drive from Austin.
However, the last couple of times I've played we had to wait for the landscaper to mow the green... as we were waiting to hit our approach. This went on for the first 4-5 holes and in caused a noticeable backup.
As you can imagine, this was a bit frustrating.
My only ask would be to make sure that this is being taken care of earlier in the morning before the first group goes out.