MarioDeSilva

The course seems to have been let go of its maintenance by Wisp. The greens have a common fungus seen on bent grass and thus has dead brown spots that also make the surface very rough and impossible to putt on.

The layout is fun and the views and nature can be so much more if the golf was enjoyable. The rough is fine but the fairways have so many water logged areas that have not been maintained. Its just sad to see such an iconic course been let go by its management.

Its not like there are no people playing this course. The course was full on a Wednesday BUT there was not a single beverage cart in site nor a single beverage station. So if you are going to brave the impossible greens take water and beverages with you. You never come back to the pro shop until 18.

Good luck with your putting.

I have played this course every year for the past three. Every year I come the conditions get worse but the price magically goes up.

Wisp resort management needs to get their act together and ensure both this and Lodestone are maintained so that the good people who work there don’t end up losing their jobs.

It is so sad to watch these course being let go. If you can’t do it, give it to someone who can.

Good:
Lay out is fun, challenging but a good time.
People that work here are friendly and nice as the rest of this town.

Bad:
Let me start with the worst issue in both these courses. The greens have a very common fungus found on bentgrass greens. There are thousands of 1-2” round dead spots on every green. Which makes putting impossible. This just needs fungicide. COMEON!!

Bunkers have no sand, not a grain of sand.

Rough is longer than the US open. 5-6” just off the fairways.

Geese and their poop everywhere that it is borderline unhealthy.

No beverage cart nor water stations anywhere even though its 90+ outside

Look, golf is a game where most folks want to get out and relax and have fun. Have a beer, have a cigar, and play in conditions that are at least okay. If the greens roll fine even with a few humps here snd there most people are happy. But when your greens are like a surface of the moon with mini craters everywhere it is reprehensible that you’ll charge people exorbitant prices and expect them to come back. DO BETTER COS IT IS A SHAME AND A SHAM!

I consider Blue Mash my home course even though I drive 45 mins to get here each time. I play this very often and is always in amazing condition.

The course, to the amenities to the club house are always great. Pace of play can be a little slower on weekend. If you are wanting to play your 18 on a weekend in 3.5hrs go get a membership at Chevy or Congressional.

If you want to play on an exceptional course at a fraction of the cost, be aware that other people too want to enjoy and as a result of its popularity you will be a little slower. It is more a compliment to how great the course is than a negative in my opinion.

Play it an see for yourselves and keep pace expectations lower than a private club!

This was the second day at Vineyard this week. The course was awesome, the pro shop personnel, especially Matt was friendly and helped us out.

We were a twosome and we were making great progress as expected for a 7:30am round. The threesome in front of us were super slow so we flagged down the ranger. Same guy from our July 4th round.

Proceeds to tell me how the slow threesome is on schedule. Also said they were a foursome to prove his point. Was negated immediately to which he had jo answer. We played through them.

One hole later our hero turns up again, just to tell us how on schedule the threesome are. We told him no, we played through them. Dude goes, ohhhh, ok and leaves.

Then we played through another group of four who let us through. Now we are basically the quickest on the course.

Our hero then turns up and proceeds to follow us throughout a hole, the usual ranger crawl you get when you are 12 shots in and lining up your fifth putt on the ground. Yea, totally unnecessary.

I am seriously left to wonder if the color of our skin had anything to do with his blatantly biased behavior. Unless of course the threesome were his brothers and kids.

We had a group of 8 playing a family scramble and everything was perfect from the time we got there. The staff was excellent from the starter, pro shop, drinks cart etc. The ranger was not so friendly. I get it, rangers get the rough end of the stick. The first time we were warned it was fair, we were 10 mins late. However he proceeded to warn us a second time and then kept following us. We had two new players (thus the scramble) and it was a lot of pressure. Pressure on new players is counter intuitive as people get frazzled when a ranger watches you. So you are better off warning snd leaving them alone.

That said everything else was perfect. One improvement would be to have better course signage specially close to the vineyard.

In conclusion thought would I play here again, absolutely. Lovely layout, challenging yet not too crazy. Conditions were excellent, except for two of the mega bunkers.

The amenities post game are top notch. Great wine, awesome food etc. Also the lack of a driving range is a bit of a hassle. Few hitting nets should solve that problem.

Beautiful place but can be s little better. However the prices are absolutely reasonable.

5 hour round, didn’t see a marshall after the first hole and a beverage cart after the fourth hole.

There was some tournament before our tee time and I guess they did not care about the rest of the patrons who paid money to play.

The guy at the pro shop was either tired or was not friendly at all or both. The only positive was the person manning the grill at the first hole.

The greens were just yearning for some care, quite possibly cos of the tournament and the heavy summer. Fairways were pretty good.

But overall experience was just really meh. Not a big fan of the layout either.

Challedon was pretty great in terms of course conditions, staff, food etc. However if I am paying 80 then I expect a little bit more, given that it is a bit of a drive for I am guessing most who patronize the place.

Pros: Course conditions were pretty great, well maintained fairways and greens as well as tee boxes. The staff was friendly, helpful etc. The layout is pretty good too, its somewhat challenging with the par 5-4-5 start. Water into play on a few holes and its an enjoyable course without making it ridiculous. Food and drinks, pro shop, bathrooms, general Covid rules are on par with clear signs etc.

Cons: First up there was a bit of frost delay but there was no starter to tell us when to get to the new tee times. Luckily everyone was courteous and figured it out amongst ourselves. Also I hope the kids manning the carts wear their masks and pool noodles in the holes so that people don't have to reach down in the cups. These are easy one hour fixes for you guys.

For the more longer term fixes I hope the bunkers get a few inches more of sand over the course of the summer. I also hope they invest in cart mounted GPS units.

At courses that have similar fees (PB Dye, Blue Mash, Worthington Manor etc) they do have the gps carts. If I am paying $80 I would expect that, maybe a club washing station, ball cleaners etc. The details were missing. I am fine paying $80 for the course, its in super condition and its fun BUT add those details for the paying customer and you got a true winner.

Am I going to come play again, absolutely. Oh the food and drinks were great!

Probably the toughest in MD and one of the most beautiful public course in MD. Everything was on point even though we played late October on an extremely cold day. The greens had perfect speed, the bunkers were great even after 2 nights of heavy rain with a few puddles here and there as expected.

Only con was it was 2 carts for a foursome and during COVID they should not be pairing random people into sharing carts!