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Course was in good shape and I loved the layout. Played with 2 older family members and they loved that there were no significant forced carries off the tee. But like many of the Phoenix courses in winter, the course was WAY overpriced. $140 on a Thursday afternoon is just way too much. I'd only recommend the course to friends who are willing to cough up that much dough for a decent round.

No carts when we arrived for our 9:50AM tee time. Had a difficult time understanding what was going on because the starter didn't speak English. Finally got a cart about 45 minutes later and teed off slightly behind schedule. Cart broke down in the first fairway. Got another cart that was very slow, but got us around sufficiently. Had to wait in second fairway because the group in front of us had a cart break down. Luckily the staff drove one out to that group in fairly short order.

The course was badly in need of mowing. The tee box and fairway grass was over an inch long and the rough was so long we spent time searching for nearly every ball that didn't find the fairway. I know the course suffers from drainage issues, but it hasn't rained here in a week and there's no excuse for how long the grass was. The greens were at least mowed recently, though they were wildly inconsistent from hole to hole.

5+ hour death march of a round. At least they had a few cocktail specials at the turn, but we waited 10 minutes for someone to serve us. There were only 3 people in the bar area at the time.

There was also a $5 refundable fee for using a cart key. That's so unusual that I completely forgot to get my money back after dropping off the cart. Admittedly, that's my own mistake but come on... were they really having an issue with people stealing cart keys?

At any rate, I won't be back to Foss Park anytime soon. It's a shame because it's a fun course when run the right way.