Hello my fellow GKers. It's Father Cheeseburger from Sunny Salt Lake City. Let's do this review the old-fashioned way. Let me tackle The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

First of all, the good. The pric... Continue »

Hello my fellow GKers. It's Father Cheeseburger from Sunny Salt Lake City. Let's do this review the old-fashioned way. Let me tackle The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

First of all, the good. The price was outstanding. $33 including cart. They are having a cold weather change of seasons special right now and that is as good a price as you were going to find. Another good thing, the pace of play. Four of us old Duffer's finished the round in 3 hours and 58 minutes. You can't beat that.

Now the bad. This is my home course. At least it is the first course I played in Utah and where I keep my handicap. A lot of changes have going on since I first started playing here. The LDS church owns the land where the driving range used to be, and they have built a large office building. The construction has taken away the driving range and the construction debris has flowed like a river across the golf course and completely bisects the 10th Fairway. Not very aesthetic.

Another bad thing is simply that. There is no practice area. There's a practice putting green, but no place to warm up. I understand that this is going to change on April 15th, when the new driving range will be open. But the new driving range is clear on the other side of the course so I'm not sure how this is going to work. I'm not happy about it.

Hopefully the ugly part of this review will not last very long. We were told that the greens were plugged and sanded 5 days ago. I'm used to the kind of sand that is used in California. This was more like crushed pebbles. The greens were horriffic. As bad as greens can get. Very disappointing. But there was no Greenskeeper.org maintenance alert so I did not know before I went.

The snow just melted so I guess I can give them a pass on the maintenance on the fairways and the rough. But the rough is very uneven and super long. Easy to lose a ball right off of the fairway.

My final comment has nothing to do with the golf course itself. But the area around Thanksgiving Point and this area we call Point of the Mountain. Too much building has gone on and the traffic is abominable. If you leave the golf course any time around the rush hour heading North toward Salt Lake City, be ready to sit in gridlock traffic for at least a half an hour. What a mess. Come to think of it, I don't think this is my home course anymore. There are much better choices out here.