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I don't regularly write a review on a golf course I play, but need to congratulate the team at Royal Oaks for the outstanding course conditions for today's round. Over the years, course conditions have been hit-or-miss. I just played Iron Valley yesterday and would put Royal Oaks greens, fairways and tee box quality at or in some cases above their local competition.

Great to see this great layout now in great condition!

I played Old South on 6/17 and enjoyed my round. I came back on 6/20 and found that the greens were significantly top dressed. There was no course condition alert on GolfNow, so after my round I spoke with the pro shop employee to express my displeasure with the course's lack of communication with players about conditions. I am fully aware that top dressing needs to be done, however I would expect a quality course to make players aware that their short game conditions for all 18 holes will not be what they would expect to experience. The pro shop employee did not seem to understand my concern and was unapologetic. I would have played another golf course on 6/20 if course conditions were communicated properly to me.

I book many rounds on GolfNow and expect golf courses to provide the same information to players as if they had called the course themselves. Unfortunately, this may be my last time playing a typically enjoyable golf course simply because I cannot trust that the golf course is providing accurate course condition information to GolfNow.