I've got a few recent DFW area course reviews to post and I'll start off with Ridgeview Ranch. Ridgeview Ranch is convenient to where I now live and a friend and I played on a holiday for $45, so not... Continue »

I've got a few recent DFW area course reviews to post and I'll start off with Ridgeview Ranch. Ridgeview Ranch is convenient to where I now live and a friend and I played on a holiday for $45, so not a bad price. The pace moved fine as well. Like most courses in the area (or so it seems) Ridgeview Ranch is surrounded by homes and takes up the land that couldn't be developed. While the design grew on me as things went along I didn't find much inspiration here. Part of that is the flat terrain I'm sure. Jeff Brauer designed the course I think he did as good as he could given what he had to work with. A couple of the wooded holes are interesting (and look/are super narrow - watch out for the 4th and 15th) but everything else is fairly wide open and shouldn't cause much worry. I think the best holes are the par-3's, including both on the front nine. One of the greens is framed by some clever mounding and the other sits just over a hazard. Conditions were mixed with the greens full and the fairways pretty good as the area recovers from a bad spring. The bunkers need some new sand as they were thin and rocky.