jjnstl

My wife and I played on a Sunday afternoon and expected it to be somewhat slower paced as is the normal here. We didn’t expect it to be THIS SLOW. We were behind an older couple which the wife was wearing jeans on a pretty hot and humid day. We soon figured out the reason for the jeans. She would play a few holes here and there, the other holes she would disappear into the woods “ball hunting” to finally reappear somewhere around the green. The husband would chip onto the green then walk all the way back to his cart and shout that he was getting ready to putt, signaling her to hurry up. We would then wait for them to finally leave the green side. If this wasn’t frustrating enough they still had to wait for the foursome of drunk guys in front of them to each hit multiple balls off each tee, then look for all of the balls they hit. This was a relatively cheap round at $24 each, but was not worth the frustration. After 4 1/2 hours we quit on hole 16 after watching the foursome hit at least a dozen balls into the lake and woods while two groups waited on the tee box. The person in the clubhouse apologized, but no one addressed the problem.

The gnats were horrible here. It is in a more rural setting and I would expect some flys and gnats. I have never experienced anything like this. My wife refused to play halfway through the first hole. I continued playing up to the third tee box. We tried OFF bug spray which was a mistake because these bugs loved it. I wish I was exaggerating, they were in my eyelids, trying to fly up my nose and in my ears. I thought maybe it was just in that beginning area of the course but as I looked out I could see groups in the distance flailing around to shoo them away. Quit after two holes. Told the lady inside we were done. She asked if we tried bug spray and said we should have used a vanilla spray? We payed through a hot deal so I understand her not being able to refund our money.

It's early March so I definitely had low expectations for conditions. Fairways were average for this time of year as were the greens. Every tee box was.closed due to overseeding in the fall which means teeing off of the fairway and in quite a few.holes off hard dirt without any grass. It was dry and their was no reason for this.We. Drove 40 minutes from home on a 60 degree March day for a noon tee time so leaving and still getting to play eighteen somewhere else was not an option. Almost 5.5 hour round due to being forced to pairwith two guys that felt it was okay to hunt for golf balls even though we(they) had the whole course backed up with at least 3 wide open holes ahead of us.