Played on 09/17 with a 12:40pm tee time and rode the blues. First time for me playing this track and since I was in the area for work anyways, took advantage of Troon Prive reciprocal playing privile... Continue »

Played on 09/17 with a 12:40pm tee time and rode the blues. First time for me playing this track and since I was in the area for work anyways, took advantage of Troon Prive reciprocal playing privileges from my home course. The course is a Ted Robinson design from 1992 with a Mike Strantz redo in 2002. Overall, it's a good quality design with generous fairways, lots of elevation change on about half of the holes and a good variety of hole layouts and lengths. Bunkers were well placed for me playing the blues and not playing driver on a few par 4's helped keep me out of trouble off the tee.

The course does play through a gated housing complex but they did a good job of keeping the homes out of play. The clubhouse is impressive on top of the hill. Oddly enough, holes 1, 9, 10 and 18 all play downhill with holes 1,9 & 10 playing severely downhill. The handicapping of holes was a bit odd on the back with the 2 par 3's playing as #2 & #4 handicap and the par 5's playing as #18 & #16 handicap. I've never seen that before. This course would be a monster to walk with some extreme climbs between a few holes.

Fairways were good, a few thin spots here and there. The rough was thick but they are definitely having some turf issues around greens especially. The greens had recently been top dressed with some light sand so they probably were running around 10 -10.5. I could see how the greens are the highlight of the course when they get them running fast. Some slopes to contend with but overall very fair greens. Bunkers were pleasant to play out of with fairly compact, but enough sand to get the club through.

I honestly thought the turf conditions could be a bit better for a private course but September is always a tough month. The course kind of reminds me of Coto De Caza North.

Definitely worth playing if you're in the area and you can get on.