I played Crooked Tree early this morning for the first time and really enjoyed it. Good routing for walking, for which I paid $46. All the tees are close to the preceding greens, the only "long" walk ... Continue »

I played Crooked Tree early this morning for the first time and really enjoyed it. Good routing for walking, for which I paid $46. All the tees are close to the preceding greens, the only "long" walk is maybe 200 yards from #9 green to #10 tee. The yardage from the middle tees set up well for my game. The layout has a "core" routing, and is located in the middle of a county park with no houses surrounding the course.

Greens were in excellent condition, speed "average", about what you would expect at a "value" course. They did a good overseed job this year on the fairway and especially on the green surrounds. 

The main negative would be the bunkers. They had sand in them, were fine to hit out of, but were all full of a ridiculous amount of stones, most the size of coins. Probably the worst I've ever seen anywhere in that regard. It was like the sand wasn't run through any kind of "sifter" before it was installed. A very minor secondary negative would be that a few of the tees were severely unlevel.

Finished in 3:45 playing with 3 nice randoms with not much waiting. I booked about a week in advance and had no trouble getting a tee time around my preferred time.

I'd definitely play it again.