I first want to thank everyone that came out and especially AndrewZ28 with all the awesome Linksoul.com gear. Also thank you Redhawk for having us. This was a great GK Plays outing! Despite the blazi... Continue »

I first want to thank everyone that came out and especially AndrewZ28 with all the awesome Linksoul.com gear. Also thank you Redhawk for having us. This was a great GK Plays outing! Despite the blazing heat, some empty water coolers and the green complexes being soaked down to combat the hot weather, I still thought it was a very enjoyable golf experience. I thought the staff at Redhawk was accommodating/professional to me as a group organizer. I liked how the carts were staged near the clubhouse and practice putting green to keep things organized. I also really liked having the small, beautiful Cantina bar/restaurant to use for after golf. Very relaxing place to chill after the round. As for the playing conditions, I expected the course to be in better shape but still thought it was in good shape and had the greens not been soaked down due to the heat, I think I would have considered it to be in great shape. Granted the 18th green was pretty chewed up from ball marks and more so what appeared to be a burn mark across the green from a lawnmower fluid leak. But other than the 18th green, and the softness of greens due to being soaked, the greens looked to be in excellent shape. I would like to come back and play them more firm. Regarding the fairways, I had great lies all day, they were cut tight and provided lots of roll. The rough was thin in some spots adjacent to the fairway but around the greens lush and penalizing. As for the bunkers, although raked nice and looked good, most were very firm and thin on sand. This made them particularly challenging. Finally the tee boxes, mostly level, lush and well groomed. Overall I was pleased with the conditions of the course. Having played Redhawk GC now close to ½ dozen times, I always enjoy the layout. Never a boring hole with one of the best sets of Par 3’s I have found anywhere. The par 3 hole 8 is spectacular. I enjoy the many risk/reward shots and challenge. It’s a course where you have to putt and chip well to have any chance of scoring decent. Fun track – will be back! Highly recommend for group play.

Played on Sunday the 16th and there is not much more to add to the previous posts as they are spot on. The over saturation of some of the areas of the course is the only complaint I would have. The c... Continue »

Played on Sunday the 16th and there is not much more to add to the previous posts as they are spot on. The over saturation of some of the areas of the course is the only complaint I would have. The course is fun and challenging. Love playing here and the staff is always top notch. Thanks Redhawk for making this outing a great time.

Played on Sunday, August 16th with GKers hbtim1967, JohnnyGK, and Mattias in 108 degree weather with a light wind that would come and go. The course was in remarkable condition overall even with the ... Continue »

Played on Sunday, August 16th with GKers hbtim1967, JohnnyGK, and Mattias in 108 degree weather with a light wind that would come and go. The course was in remarkable condition overall even with the drought. The Redhawk Golf Club staff were tops from the starter to the snack bar lady, they were attentive and glad we were with them this day! We appreciated being with them also even with the elevated temperature! The golf course was in good to very good shape and does not have unusual features to play with your psyche! The tee boxes had good grass, were mostly level, and had minimal divot damage. The fairways were lush to mostly lush and cut to just the right height to leave your ball in a good lie and if you managed to catch the back side of an undulation there was a bonus 5 to 10 yards to be gained. The rough, though mostly short, allowed your ball to nestle in causing you to have to come in steep to get a clean hit and advance the ball toward the green. The fairway bunkers I was in had minimal sand mixed with soil, watered and dried out, to become like hardpan. Nevertheless, I used my hybrid and escaped both of them cleanly! The greenside bunkers were a mixed bag for me being wet in places and firm 6 inches further away from the green on the rollback! The greens were rolling true at my estimate of 10 to 11 on the Stimp, were green and damp in places, and of course, there were some ball marks that the previous groups had repaired. Thanks guys! I would like to thank Redhawk Golf Club for having us and JohnnyGK for arranging another sucessful GK Plays for us all to enjoy. I parred four holes which is a new record for me at a GK event and got to see some friends I haven't seen in a while! We welcomed two new GK members and one of them's 81 year old father who appeared to be having a great time! We enjoyed Rico's Cantina with food and drinks while Johnny became MC and rewarded everyone in attendence with some swag! Special thanks to LinkSoul for providing some of their great golf shirts and tee shirts and to AndrewZ28 for bringing them to us to enjoy! What a guy! I can highly recommend Redhawk Golf Club as a challenging test of your golfing skills and I will happily come back and play this course in the future. Jesse

Played in latest edition of GK Plays. It was a hot, slow round but with the company it made the time pass quickly. If that makes any sense. I was surprised since we were neither pushed by the group... Continue »

Played in latest edition of GK Plays. It was a hot, slow round but with the company it made the time pass quickly. If that makes any sense. I was surprised since we were neither pushed by the group behind or in the process of pushing the group ahead.

Greens were wettish towards the later part of the afternoon. Loads of heavy footprints after they soaked greens. The greens though rolled pretty true and fast. The last hole 18 has a stripe from what looks like an oil leak but that should heal quickly.

Fairways had good coverage; some thin lies but definitely playable. Rough was thick and sticky. Bunkers are stocked with a thin layer of sand so had to adjust my game to play out of some of these bunkers. Tee boxes were flat and playable.

Thanks to staff who were helpful and showed up just in time as heat was really causing us to melt out there. Water stations are everywhere you just have to look for them and the signage. Finally found one by hole 7 but was told there were two more I missed previously.

This was a fun challenging course. Just wish my bookend doubles weren't on the scorecard otherwise I would have done well that day. Looking forward to the next time I find myself at Redhawk. It was fun, challenging day of golf. The company a definite plus. Thanks GK and thanks Redhawk for a great GK Plays!

Firstly, I'd like to thank Johnny and the folks at Redhawk for setting up/having us out to play in a blast furnace. It really was a good time even when the thermometer hit 106. Now for the review...
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Firstly, I'd like to thank Johnny and the folks at Redhawk for setting up/having us out to play in a blast furnace. It really was a good time even when the thermometer hit 106. Now for the review...

The good: Tee boxes and fairways were excellent and I've never seen them otherwise here. Solid coverage, consistent lies and just a bit of divot damage. Some seed or sand on the par 3s would be nice to have though. Rough was also pretty good, especially off the fairways. Around the greens was a little more hit and miss.

The not so good: Most of the fringes and greens were bogs. I can't remember having so many mud balls in the middle of summer. I also noticed that the greens were cut far shorter than everything else I've played the last month or so. I'm really wondering if the water they put on the course (we saw the sprinklers on 7 green) was to keep them from getting completely baked in the heat. The soft greens were holding footprints far too well and any shot coming in was going to leave an impressive crater. I fixed my fair share of ballmarks as well.

The excellent: The cantina. That grilled cheese was stupid good.

Overall, the course is really good from tee to green and just way too wet on the greens. Once they get that reigned in it will be back to typical Redhawk, a solid test of golf with very good conditions.

Played in the GK outing on 8/16 on a brisk 105 degree day. Great time playing with three GKers Ron, Nick and Allan for the first time. Great guys to tee it up with.

My review is going to be a bit b... Continue »

Played in the GK outing on 8/16 on a brisk 105 degree day. Great time playing with three GKers Ron, Nick and Allan for the first time. Great guys to tee it up with.

My review is going to be a bit biased because I've always been a fan of Redhawk and the crew who work out there. I thought the overall conditions of the course were really good. The fairways were excellent as I had nothing but great lies all day. When I did find the rough it was playable but definitely made things a bit more difficult. I'm a fan of rough that you need to avoid, but isn't so difficult that it's basically a stroke penalty for missing the fairway.

I'll echo some of the thoughts others have expressed in the wetness of the greens. They had been given quite a bit of water (some during the round) and it made them susceptible to foot prints, especially in high traffic areas nearer the hole, which made putts inside 20 feet a little wobbly, but overall I thought they were fine. I'm sure the water was necessary to protect them in the heat, but if they dried out just a little they'd be perfect.

The range is nothing fancy, but I've always liked the putting and chipping greens as you can play some fun games with crazy putts/chips but also work on flat putts on the green nearer the pro shop. The cantina is always a good time and everyone I met on staff was great.

I'm a huge fan of this layout and think that the conditions currently make Redhawk a great place to get out and play. I will definitely be back soon!

Played in the GK plays on Sunday. Paired with rgm2525, allan_grant & AndrewZ28, we played the Blacks (72.0/132/6544) on a hot, slow Sunday afternoon. POP was poor, well over a 5 hour round in 100+ deg... Continue »

Played in the GK plays on Sunday. Paired with rgm2525, allan_grant & AndrewZ28, we played the Blacks (72.0/132/6544) on a hot, slow Sunday afternoon. POP was poor, well over a 5 hour round in 100+ degree heat. Witnessed some good to excellent golf shots and had a great time with this group! The course condition was a mixed bag, ranging from excellent to poor, but good to very good overall. The tees were good to very good, well maintained with most divots repaired. Both the fairways and the rough were excellent, lush with only a few brown spots here and there. Considering the heat/drought, some of the best fairways I have played on recently. The rough was penal even though it was not overly long, very hard to get good club on the ball. The traps were poor. I was in 4 total. The waste bunker was hardpan, which is preferable to me. However, the 3 greenside bunkers were all over the place. 1 was wet from over watering the green, 1 was hardpan and 1 was not well maintained. I am only an average bunker player, but I have NEVER in 40+ years of playing golf hit 3 shots in the same bunker out of the same divot before after 3 straight attempts hit the lip and came back in the same spot! The greens were medium fast and somewhat bumpy. They were extremely soft (as were the fringes) from over watering. Foot marks near the hole made even short putts a challenge, and the amount of times our group made significant ball marks on pitch shots was well into the teens. The good thing was once you realized how soft they were, it was like throwing darts, pop it up in the air and land it by the hole and it stayed. They obviously do not have a water issue @ Redhawk, because the amount of times our group was playing a "mud ball" on approaches or chip shots was almost unbelievable considering it was mid August w/o any recent rainfall. The customer service was very good. Efficient check-in & the cart staff was top notch. We gathered in the onsite restaurant for snacks/drinks afterward, both the prices and the service was excellent. As has been pointed out in other reviews, it was very surprising that we only saw the snack cart once the entire round on a Sunday when it was 105 degrees. I enjoy the layout and would play here often if Redhawk was not over 100 miles from my house.

Played in the GK get together 8-16-15. Course is in very good shape. Greens held amazingly well for such fast greens. Tee boxes were excellent and fairways were in good shape for our drought condition... Continue »

Played in the GK get together 8-16-15. Course is in very good shape. Greens held amazingly well for such fast greens. Tee boxes were excellent and fairways were in good shape for our drought conditions. Some of the bunkers were very hard packed but green side bunkers seemed OK! This is a course I would play again without a doubt. The only negative was that with 108 degree temps we only saw a cart girl once. and that was near the end of our round! In that heat I would have thought they would be coming around every few holes and could have made bank! This is a course everyone should experience!

Enjoyed the GK outing today immensely. Had the privilege of playing with some of Greenskeeper.org 's finest - you guys were great. Got off to an abysmal start, but luckily cleaned it up enough to make... Continue »

Enjoyed the GK outing today immensely. Had the privilege of playing with some of Greenskeeper.org 's finest - you guys were great. Got off to an abysmal start, but luckily cleaned it up enough to make it respectable on the back 9.

Yes, it was ridiculously hot, but there were a good number of water stations around, however a few more on days like today wouldn't hurt a bit.

The layout at Redhawk is fine, but I was surprised (in a good way) that there was nothing gimmicky about the track. The holes are pretty straight forward with the exception of 18, which has a few weird qualities. But it was nice that it wasn't trying too hard to be too hard - no trees in the middle of fairways, or large bunkers dead center of landing areas. I liked that.

Conditions were good, not optimal, but totally understandable in that oven. I can imagine when conditions perfect, the place must be superb. But today, due to the overwatering of the greens, they were spongy with lots of shoe marks and took some big ball marks (people were very good about fixing them though).

Fairways were quite good and very few dry areas were found. The rough was not super deep, but proved challenging. Sand traps were a bit thin to be honest - often had to decide whether to dig it out or just try and snatch it clean. Tee boxes were pretty good.

I look forward to playing here again someday. And also look forward to the next GK outing - thanks for making my first time out with you guys a good ole time.