Played Sunday and noticed I need to get the course ratings up a notch or two. All good to great through the green with the exception being the bunkers, and previously mentioned white tees (prior rev... Continue »

Played Sunday and noticed I need to get the course ratings up a notch or two. All good to great through the green with the exception being the bunkers, and previously mentioned white tees (prior review) being the most played and therefore a mix of grass and filled divots.
Bunkers are a disappointment at this $$$ level. Many now showing the liner and the bottoms with not much sand mixed with the clay/dirt base material and damp to wet. If I had to say they have had little or no noticeable professional attention since two weeks ago.
Fairways are nice lies and rough grown in doing it's thing. Greens are rolling consistent and fair fun to putt, not too quick holding the high shot or the spinner. Not that I'd know that shot.
Played with a new player to the course who was dressed sharp and I recognized right away as a ball striker with power. He had us as his guide what could go wrong?
The black tees weren't set out for him that's what. First time I've played with someone who needed to move back to the tips! Lots of power and at times it wasn't controlled. However he drove at least three through the fairway into the woods with towering drives, and I felt unfair results. Coming in he drove the green on the 315 yard elevated green 18th just past the back pin. Impressive even as his 2nd, a two putt bogey result.
First out today and the course's namesake coyote is often seen in these morning hours. Unique today was on the first green we heard a pack nervously yipping and running and I looked to see the four of them being pursued by two great pyrenees happily in pursuit after them on the cart path to #2. A couple minutes of observing this going seeing the coyotes in clear view gathering on a rock and then back to golf. That was fun to see and hear.