ausmiller84

The course was in good shape, my group liked the variety of holes, and the overall course layout. The greeter was so friendly. I'm new to golf this year, my two friends in my group have been playing for years, and are pretty decent golfers.

On the first hole all three of us had pretty rough tee shots, and immediately were followed uncomfortably close by a course marshal, after one or two more shots each he stopped us and said "you guys are going to be a problem." This seemed a little quick to judge based on a few poor shots on the first hole. (also maybe the angry man 10 feet behind us in the golf cart didn't help our game...) He told us we were going to slow the course down and shouldn't be playing there on a weekend. He was beyond rude and disrespectful, made us feel completely unwelcome. He insisted we wait for the group behind us to pass. (after we were told that nobody is to pass for any reason) We followed his instruction and let the group ahead.

We were less than ten minutes on the first hole, including the time he spent giving us a hard time. He told my friend (who typically golfs 80-85 from the blues) that he "is not good enough to play the blue tees" after seeing two shots. He came at us hard with no room for discussion, it was completely unjustified.

We would have been happy to discuss his concern and ensure him we just had a bad start and would not be a problem if he approached us in a reasonable fashion. Instead he chose to be incredible harsh and unreasonable. This exchange left a very bad taste in my mouth and ruined the experience at a course we all thoroughly enjoyed otherwise.

The funny thing is that after letting the group play through we had caught up to them by the fourth hole, and then waited up to 10 minutes to tee off every hole for the rest of the 18, without anyone behind on us until 15. Doesn't seem like we were the problem.