played Monday, Aug 12.
Good: beautiful course, lots of maintenance and trimming going on, nice layout and was great to walk. Really liked it, and at a reasonable cost. 5 stars for the course, it plays as long as I will ever want a course to play at 6700yards!
Bad: took 4'45" to play weekday. 2 stars for it. Here's why....
I expect to play quicker Mon-Thurs, even on Fridays. I won't even try this course on a weekend if I am playing over 4'30" on a weekday. There is visibility regarding pace of play policy around the club house and on the score card for playing to 4'30" but nothing done to really make it happen. Someone was slowing up the course on Monday. What's the difference of an extra 15 minutes?.. you get stuck on the highway getting out if it's the afternoon. You also loose your golfing momentum. You get lazy yourself. You skip a beer after your round.
Weekdays should be directed toward a 4 hour round.
Please Mr Golf Course, even 4'30" on a weekday is slow, it really should be quicker. Golfers need reminders from time to time that they are dragging their feet. So longer than 4'30", not for me.
Help us out. Printing times on a card are NOT ENOUGH TO GET GOLFERS GOING! A little courteous marshaling will help everyone.
As I stated, the course is really beautiful, difficult to even lose a ball since it's so open. They have trimmed trees to a real landscaped eye, this is as nicely maintained a course as you rarely see, especially for the money. But take the chainsaw out to the fairways to chase the slow golfers.
It's been years since I last was here, and that was a weekend that was so slow, I quite at 5+ hrs... never knew they even had 18 holes here.
I may try one more weekday, earlier in the day perhaps, but I prefer courses who support their own pace of play program.