Played here 10/20 with my girlfriend's father on a GolfNow Hot Deal for ~$75 on what was originally a 12:50PM tee time. There was lots to unpack from this round which I will save for my ETC section. The review of the actual course is as follows:

Tee boxes: The weakest part of the course today and that's really not saying much as they were fairly playable, sans a couple of holes that were more then beat up. I imagine with this course being so short that the blue tee boxes get a massive amount of play and the latter tee times will always suffer. Outside of those that were mangled a bit, the rest had enough land to try and find good footing.

Fairways: Good shape. They were still green and had good coverage. I didn't find a single bad lie all day and the carts had a good amount of mix available so golfers must have been on it today. Roll was also more than fair since we played on a day where the sun baked the fairway turf quite a bit.

Rough: Pretty penal on certain holes. It was never Torrey length, but it had teeth. The natural landscape of the land certainly was more penal than the rough but you still had to be careful no to spray your drives.

Bunkers: Was in a handful today and they had enough sand (not pear white nor beach sand, something in between). People seemed to rake up and leave them in good shape, which would mean my bad sand play today was all on me.

Greens: The highlight of the round. They were green, fast, and had some tricky breaks to them. I distinctly remember the breaks on hole 8 really got me even when they didn't look at all complicated. A few ball marks left unrepaired by those ahead of us, but what can you do other than fix them.

ETC: Showed up to the course around 12:05PM and decided to skip the valet this time. This property (resort) really isn't set up for this so keep this in mind, as spots in the lot for non-valet are very limited. We also walked our clubs over to the golf shop as no carts stopped to ... » More

Played here 10/20 with my girlfriend's father on a GolfNow Hot Deal for ~$75 on what was originally a 12:50PM tee time. There was lots to unpack from this round which I will save for my ETC section. The review of the actual course is as follows:

Tee boxes: The weakest part of the course today and that's really not saying much as they were fairly playable, sans a couple of holes that were more then beat up. I imagine with this course being so short that the blue tee boxes get a massive amount of play and the latter tee times will always suffer. Outside of those that were mangled a bit, the rest had enough land to try and find good footing.

Fairways: Good shape. They were still green and had good coverage. I didn't find a single bad lie all day and the carts had a good amount of mix available so golfers must have been on it today. Roll was also more than fair since we played on a day where the sun baked the fairway turf quite a bit.

Rough: Pretty penal on certain holes. It was never Torrey length, but it had teeth. The natural landscape of the land certainly was more penal than the rough but you still had to be careful no to spray your drives.

Bunkers: Was in a handful today and they had enough sand (not pear white nor beach sand, something in between). People seemed to rake up and leave them in good shape, which would mean my bad sand play today was all on me.

Greens: The highlight of the round. They were green, fast, and had some tricky breaks to them. I distinctly remember the breaks on hole 8 really got me even when they didn't look at all complicated. A few ball marks left unrepaired by those ahead of us, but what can you do other than fix them.

ETC: Showed up to the course around 12:05PM and decided to skip the valet this time. This property (resort) really isn't set up for this so keep this in mind, as spots in the lot for non-valet are very limited. We also walked our clubs over to the golf shop as no carts stopped to offer us a ride, they seemed far more interested in shuttling employees (rightfully so) and other guests to/from. It's a haul if you aren't ready for it so also prepare for this. Once at the starter, around 12:20 he allowed us to tee off immediately, giving the impression the course was wide open, but this was far from true. In fact, the course was nothing but twosomes so I think the starter sent out anyone who showed up and said "go." Although the round was roughly 4.5 hours, it felt endless and we literally waited on every hole and nearly every shot. This made rhythm something hard to obtain. The cart attendant also never came around to our group. I'm not kidding when I say she looked over at us from the next hole and went around us! Layout is fun but also being so short, sets up for lots of holes with forced waits so be prepared for that. Overall, it is still a wonderful setting for golf and any price under $80 warrants a visit.
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