mrebonix

I played here on a Sunday with 7 buddies using an UnderPar coupon for unlimited golf. The course was beautiful and in great shape, but the golf staff was terrible. I have played well over 250 golf courses in my life from the best to the worst, and I have never experienced anything like what happened the day we played. When I arrived in the morning, I was putting my shoes on in the parking lot and the cart attendant came out and asked if he could take my clubs. I said sure, thanks. Then he saw I had a cooler in my trunk and asked if he could take that too, so again I sure. I go inside to the pro shop to check in and met Kevin, who seemed less than happy to see us. He wasn't rude but not pleasant or friendly at all. After checking in I went out to the cart area to get my clubs and head to the range to warm up. Our bags were on carts ready to go but my cooler was missing. I asked the kid who took it where my cooler was, and he said its in the pro shop office, that there was beer in it and they don't allow outside alcohol. I asked how he knew there was beer inside and he said that he looked. I looked at my friends shocked and said why didn't you just say so in the parking lot instead of taking it and then confiscating it. He had no answer. So I went back into the pro shop and told Kevin that my cooler was there somewhere and I wanted it back. He replied you can have it back after your round. I said I had other things in there that I needed and he said, there is nothing in there you need and you can't have it back. I said there was an apple and snacks too and I wanted them and would put the cooler back in the car. He said again in a very rude tone, nope you can't have it back until after the round. I was dumbfounded! Instead of having a big argument over a cooler and risk getting kicked off the property I let it go.

Once on the course, the beverage cart girl was non-existent for the first 7 holes, and once she did arrive she was nice but the beer selection was awful, which she acknowledged. If you like water beer such as Coors Lite and Bud Light you're in luck, the premium beer was Newcastle.

Once we finished our 1st round we wanted to play a 2nd in the afternoon. Keven told us to check back with him at 1:50 that at this time it was open but if someone else (I assume meaning a new paying customer) booked the tee time then they would bump us.

Fortunately that didn't happen and we teed off at 1:50 for our second round, but not before having more trouble with the golf staff. We wanted to play from the Copper "back" tees for this round. The starter Bob immediately wanted to know why and what our handicaps were. I told him we were all single digit players and he said "there is a big difference between a 2 and a 9 handicap" . I explained to him we were all around 5-6. He was not happy and said we that would not have fun and that we had to keep up or else. I explained we would be just fine and knew how to keep the pace of play. Two of our friends didn't play again so we only had 6 players and we went out as 2 threesomes. They put a single out last minute just before we teed off which was fine.

As our 1st group was teeing off I noticed the clubhouse manager come out of the clubhouse and watch us hit our tee shots on #1 (the steps from the clubhouse are right at the base of the back tees on the 1st hole). He seemed very interested and not happy. I presume he was there to make sure we looked like we were could play good enough from the tips, and didn't say anything,

During our second round we got backup up on the 6th tee box, as our 1st group was waiting on the single they put out! There was nobody behind us so we figured if a single player couldn't play faster than a threesome, that we would just play the rest of the round as a six-some, which we did. Not only did we keep up we played through another foursome at the turn, a Korean group who looked a bit shocked when they allowed us to play thought and we had 6 players! We assured them they would not wait for us and they didn't, we left them in the dust.

The course is great (not worth $250) but $80-$100 definitely, just beware of the grumpy staff. As for playing the Copper Tees (7200+yrds) it is not that difficult, and does not play near that long as many of the shots are way down hill and down wind. There was only one of two shots where a 220+ carry was needed but if you can do that it is not that tough.

The bar and restaurant were great and the beer selection and staff were much better too!