Lives
Round Rock, TX
Handicap
5-9
Age
35-44
Gender
Male
Skill
Advanced
Plays
Once a week

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4.0
4.0
Total 1 Reviews

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1 Reviews
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4 Stars
1
3 Stars
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2 Stars
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Recommended Courses
1
Not Recommended Courses
0
Helpful Votes Count
2
Not Helpful Votes Count
7
First Review
07/22/2014
Last Review
07/22/2014

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A great course with spectacular views but.....

BJC was as advertised. I booked a couple of months in advance while scheduling a family vacation to the middle of nowhere so our cell phones wouldn't work. Mission accomplished there. Don't expect your cell to work unless you have AT&T.

OK...now to the golf course. If this course were played by the pros in the middle of December, they would shoot in the high 50's. I didn't find it all that challenging. The state of the course was great, even considering they had just aerated. Wide open fairways, a lot of natural areas rather than tall rough and views you would drool over. Well, that is if you had any water to create drool. The staff provided 6 small bottles of water with our round. When combined with the 4 bottles of water and 2 bottles of Gatorade each (2 players) we were only about 10 holes short of making our fluids last. Keep in mind, we played at the end of May in the desert. We knew it would be scorching by 10am so we came prepared, or so we thought. NONE of the restroom stations had any water in the coolers. Not just no water, but no ice, no remnants of liquid of any kind. There are 3 stops on the course for water. About 75% too few considering the climate. We picked up 4 more bottles each at the turn (which is about a 10 minute cart ride from 9 green to CH) because that was all they had.................really BJC?. Our bottles, even when rationed only lasted to 14. It was 110 by 10am. We teed off at 9am. The front took about 3 hours (a lot of picture taking and nobody on the course behind us). The back took almost 5 hours in that heat with very few pictures taken. Although there was a lot of that game we all play in the heat. You know it, right. "Find a tree so you don't burst into flames". Excellent game to play...........sarcasm noted. We stuck it out because hey.......golf is golf. If it weren't for the BONE DRY water coolers on the course, this would have been a 5-star experience across the board. Considering they were bone dry, you could tell the staff hadn't added water to them in days. There were desert creatures living in the drains. It is right on the Rio Grande so maybe some illegals came over and stole all of the water at all of the stops but would they have taken the time to dry them out completely and place scorpions and such in the drains? Hmmmmmm

I think Mr. Wadkins did a spectacular job designing this course. He would be ashamed at how the staff is running it. There seemed to be ZERO attention to detail. For $130+ a round, I expect water whenever I please.

To sum it up, great course, I shot low but not as low as I could have if hydrated, the views are only eclipsed by ocean courses and there was no water unless you trekked back to the CH.

I will only play again if the fees total $0. It is a 3 hour charter flight or a 10 hour drive from my location. As beautiful as this course is, it isn't worth the travel time or costs unless you are local or independently wealthy.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
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