joebaughman

I have talked about playing Tour 18 for the better part of a decade. Well the talk is over, and short of the amazing staff, there is nothing to rave about. The course was in good or average condition. Many of the greens were average at best.

Short of the unique hole designs which many of them were plain and boring, the course isn’t all that special. Quite honestly, I wish I had saved the money and played other courses in the area.

Sad as I had such huge hopes ans dreams for this course.

We had a tee time today for three, and short of the people behind us, we didn’t see anyone other than the course staff.

The course is well laid out, several holes allow you to bomb away at the fairways, while the others encourage a well played and placed shot.

Greens were recently punched and the back 9 seems to be a little worse than the front. This was minimal and wouldn’t prevent me from playing again.

My son and I set out to play WestRidge yesterday, this amid the Covid-19 shut downs. Upon arrival to the course, their parking lot was pretty full, so we knew that their might be some delays. Upon entering or should I say trying to enter the clubhouse, there was a sign indicating the clubhouse was closed and to check in around back. As we went around back, we noticed tables and a computer set up, with the now standard 6’ tape markers on the ground telling you where to stand. Upon approaching the makeshift counter to pay, I over hear that they are running individual carts only and each two-some can only have one rider, the other person has to walk. This idea of walking had people walking out and off the course. My son and I decided to power through. Ok, he powered through walking over 8 miles and I rode most of it. Lol

The course, for the current environment, the course was pretty decent. We have had a ton of rain lately, and for the most part, you could not tell by walking around the course. Now, what I found lacking was the number of unrepaired divots throughout the course. Due to the Covid-19 restrictive measures, the course is not placing sand bottles on the carts. This leaves a lot of divots and my fear is in 6 months the course will not being as smooth as it was yesterday. The sand traps were without rakes as other course are, so there is the challenge of balls in footprints etc. I will say the sand traps were missing a lot of sand and concrete was exposed in many places. Overall the fairways were in good shape and the greens were better than one might expect for a public course.

I will definitely be back to play another round I’m the future. Yesterday’s time for 18 holes ran just over 4 hours long, however had my son not jogged from shot to shot and hole to hole, we would have played more along the lines of 5 hours plus.