Out at Royal Links on 4/30, with John_T, his dad, and another buddy, using the 4some certificate from a GK Event. Thanks Royal Links for the GK support and Johnny for the great prizes. With a 11:30... Continue »

Out at Royal Links on 4/30, with John_T, his dad, and another buddy, using the 4some certificate from a GK Event. Thanks Royal Links for the GK support and Johnny for the great prizes. With a 11:30 tee time, we started the day with a before round meal at Stymies bar/grill. The bloody mary was sneaky spicy, one of my favorites, and the meal was great. Prices are consistent or even lower to other Vegas resort courses. During the round, drink cart was around about 3 times, plus caught her after 9 as she re-stocked. Enjoyed a nice drink after the round back in Stymies. Starter gave us a combo routing, playing the top 4 handicap holes from the ruby tees while playing gold on the others, cutting about 300 yards off, and a perfect 6300ish vs 5900 (ruby) or 6600 (gold). Course was in a bit better condition than a couple months ago. The dormant Bermuda fairways and rough are growing in, and are not quite lush but pretty good. Tee boxes are nice and level. The downsides were the bunkers and greens. Bunkers were a bit thin, which is difficult since they are so deep and steep faced. Greens appeared to have been punched in the last two weeks. Still some visible holes, and some bumps, but running faster than freshly aerated. They fixed the issues with the holes by adding a plastic liner above the cups to prevent the edges from collapsing. We didn't get any of those pesky "roll backs" from the edge all day. With news of the sale of the course falling through, I'm hoping to see the course come back to it's normally great conditions. This course is an absolute butt kicker, with a great variety of holes. They have cut down the gorse-like edges some, making it a bit easier to find and hit, but not much. Definitely a challenge and worth the trip.