Course conditions have really improved the past few weeks—from good to (mostly) excellent. The more I play this course, the more I like it.

Course conditions have really improved the past few weeks—from good to (mostly) excellent. The more I play this course, the more I like it.

Hello my fellow GKers. It's Father Cheeseburger from Sunny Salt Lake City. Let's do this review the old-fashioned way. Let me tackle The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

First of all, the good. The pric... Continue »

Hello my fellow GKers. It's Father Cheeseburger from Sunny Salt Lake City. Let's do this review the old-fashioned way. Let me tackle The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

First of all, the good. The price was outstanding. $33 including cart. They are having a cold weather change of seasons special right now and that is as good a price as you were going to find. Another good thing, the pace of play. Four of us old Duffer's finished the round in 3 hours and 58 minutes. You can't beat that.

Now the bad. This is my home course. At least it is the first course I played in Utah and where I keep my handicap. A lot of changes have going on since I first started playing here. The LDS church owns the land where the driving range used to be, and they have built a large office building. The construction has taken away the driving range and the construction debris has flowed like a river across the golf course and completely bisects the 10th Fairway. Not very aesthetic.

Another bad thing is simply that. There is no practice area. There's a practice putting green, but no place to warm up. I understand that this is going to change on April 15th, when the new driving range will be open. But the new driving range is clear on the other side of the course so I'm not sure how this is going to work. I'm not happy about it.

Hopefully the ugly part of this review will not last very long. We were told that the greens were plugged and sanded 5 days ago. I'm used to the kind of sand that is used in California. This was more like crushed pebbles. The greens were horriffic. As bad as greens can get. Very disappointing. But there was no Greenskeeper.org maintenance alert so I did not know before I went.

The snow just melted so I guess I can give them a pass on the maintenance on the fairways and the rough. But the rough is very uneven and super long. Easy to lose a ball right off of the fairway.

My final comment has nothing to do with the golf course itself. But the area around Thanksgiving Point and this area we call Point of the Mountain. Too much building has gone on and the traffic is abominable. If you leave the golf course any time around the rush hour heading North toward Salt Lake City, be ready to sit in gridlock traffic for at least a half an hour. What a mess. Come to think of it, I don't think this is my home course anymore. There are much better choices out here.

Played 4/20/16 and they punched the greens on the 11th, or I would have given a higher rating then I did. The two great guys I played with said the the greens usually run about 11/11.5. This course is... Continue »

Played 4/20/16 and they punched the greens on the 11th, or I would have given a higher rating then I did. The two great guys I played with said the the greens usually run about 11/11.5. This course is a Johnny Miller course and is one of the best in the state. It is 7716 yards from the back tees (I played the white @ 6344 yards) and was happy I did. Fun and a shot makers course on almost every single hole. Here is the best part, this time of the year (I think until the end of May) what ever the low temperature was the night before you pay that amount in green fees (I payed $39.00) for a course that has a DotCom tour event held here. If you you are in the Salt Lake City area play this course.

Truly a beautiful course with all the challenge anyone could ask for with a variety of tee-boxes for all levels of golfers. The Customer Service is outstanding. Great grass driving range. I will give ... Continue »

Truly a beautiful course with all the challenge anyone could ask for with a variety of tee-boxes for all levels of golfers. The Customer Service is outstanding. Great grass driving range. I will give them a pass for the length of the grass on the fairways. It's been raining quite a bit so they will catch up soon. Everything is first rate. Only one complaint. People really do need to pay attention to the tee-box recommendations for handicap levels. Five hours and twenty-five minutes is OK if you have no other place to be... But we waited on every single shot from start to finish while we watched a foursome of hackers search for mi sh-t balls driven from the blue tees. Made for a really long day!!