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 o... » 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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Golfed the white tees alone, Monday 10/21, as there were still some empty slots allowing it. Weather was awesome.
I left my driver and 3 wood in the truck, but kept the 22 deg hybrid in the bag. My Ginty was the only wood in the bag, and I used it only twice from the deep rough(no lie is safe from my Ginty). Every club in the bag, got exercise today ;-)

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Golfed the white tees alone, Monday 10/21, as there were still some empty slots allowing it. Weather was awesome.
I left my driver and 3 wood in the truck, but kept the 22 deg hybrid in the bag. My Ginty was the only wood in the bag, and I used it only twice from the deep rough(no lie is safe from my Ginty). Every club in the bag, got exercise today ;-)

Tee boxes have new seeded grass coming in nicely, not cut today, about an inch high. This was present, and you were mindful of it, mostly on those par 3's, but it did not affect tee shots. Golfers are not repairing/filling their tee box divots, so I did it.

The fairways are doing good, especially for late October. However, golfers are not repairing their fairway divots! So I did all those near mine. Maybe golfing alone makes this more obvious? ;-)

The traps are better than a month ago, and play exactly the way they appear, barely acceptable. I successfully got out of and on, 3 out of 4 greens because they were in better shape. They are still denser than they should be, but they do give way,  more than an inch of depth if you need it. All appeared raked after watering.

Greens were in good shape and accepted all my decent attempts at them...they made me look like I know what I'm doing. That nasty trough, that was on the lower right quadrant of green #4 a month ago, is completely gone.

This course is continually improving and now more worthy of the $35 morning weekday rate. I used all my cart sand, and had to refill from the sand bin at the hole 16 tee box. Now we golfer's need to up our game...and look out for each other, by looking after the courses we play!

*found two nice sand wedges on green #1, suspected I would encounter the owners backtracking to find them...sure enough, they were re-united with their lost clubs by hole#3 :-) I have a long way to go, to pay it forward by re-uniting lost clubs to their owners...as it was done for me about a dozen times over all these years.
Cheers,
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Played 10-20-19 with a group of GKers. Took advantage of the pre opening deal. Course is almost ready but could use a couple more weeks to fill in. Tee boxes were flat and nice. Bunkers were perfect. Greens were OK running a bit slower than what it will be later in the season. There were several spots in the fairways that hadn't grown in and should have been marked as ground un... » More

Played 10-20-19 with a group of GKers. Took advantage of the pre opening deal. Course is almost ready but could use a couple more weeks to fill in. Tee boxes were flat and nice. Bunkers were perfect. Greens were OK running a bit slower than what it will be later in the season. There were several spots in the fairways that hadn't grown in and should have been marked as ground under repair so no one played out of them but not the case. On cart scoring system was a huge frustration. Would take scores fine for a couple holes then we would have to go through a bunch of steps to get the scores to enter. We experienced a few other glitches. No starter and we didn't find out till the next day there was a closest to the pin competition and the simulator was closed when we got in. The staff went above and beyond to try and make up for some of the problems but kind of angry to know there were other contests going on.
Still love the course and will play again when the opportunity presents itself!
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