Played 8/5. 7:50 Tee time. Online rate of $38 included cart. Lone Tree is a desert course with generous fairways and very few forced carries. It's not real long. It can play longer if you get the... Continue »

Played 8/5. 7:50 Tee time. Online rate of $38 included cart. Lone Tree is a desert course with generous fairways and very few forced carries. It's not real long. It can play longer if you get the scorecard to play the tournament tees. Its signature hole is #12 a Par 3 with an island green. The weather has been very hot recently. Taking its toll on many golf courses. With that said, Lone Tree is not in good shape over all. The greens were aerated about 3 weeks ago. They still have not healed. Greens were slow and bumpy. Probably need 2 more weeks to be better. Fairways were poor-fair. Lots of burned spots, bare spots and divot damage. We had to play, if you were in the fairway, you got to roll it onto a good lie. The rough was a mixed bag. There were bare spots, tight lies, fluffy flyer lies, weeds, and 6 inch high crab grass. ( One playing partner drove a ball that landed in the fairway and kicked into the right rough. The rough was so thick that 3 of us looking for it couldn't find it. Oh well, lost ball 5yds off the fairway). Sand traps were inconsistent. Some had sand, others had hard packed sand, and some had no sand. Tee boxes were good. Outside service was fair. No one on your arrival, but when you finish they come out to clean your clubs. The golf shop told us no beverage cart on the course. Bring your own water or visit the Grille before playing. No GPS in the carts. Bring your own range finder. Ok practice facility. Currently I would say this course is not playable, until it gets maintenance when they over seed in October. I took about 20 photos. Most of them make the course look terrible. I'm submitting the best ones I had, plus a few that show the conditions.