I played on 01/27/11. This is a fun little course that I went around twice to get 18 in. Played in a fog bank most of the day, the only thing missing was somebody yelling “Marco!” and someone else a... Continue »

I played on 01/27/11. This is a fun little course that I went around twice to get 18 in. Played in a fog bank most of the day, the only thing missing was somebody yelling “Marco!” and someone else answering “Polo!”. The whole place is stuffed in between an industrial park, the freeway, and the railroad tracks. To get to it you have to go down a small two lane frontage road. I have to admit that the first time I came out here I was afraid the bunkers and water hazards might be old junked-out tow trucks, engine blocks and stacks of wood pallets, but my fears were soon put away.

They have a small pro shop that is stocked to the “tee”with every thing you could want, including a couple of bags with signs “Anything in the bag for $9.99”. The guy running the shop made sure to let me know they have free golf one week before or after your birthday, it will probably cost me the same as green fees in gas to get out here but what the heck, I is now a golf Ho! They have a practice putting green, a practice bunker. and a good range with brand new bright yellow golf balls, they are very proud of their new balls, at least that's what all the banners say.

Everything was in good condition for a small course like this. The only cons for this course are things that can't really be helped like:

*Great huge electrical towers run through the middle of the course that you have to avoid. The last time I played this place I was on the short fairway of hole 2 and made a lousy drive and had to muscle the ball with a five iron. My ball hit one of the concrete pylons of the super structures and shot straight back at me like a Bolide ripping through the ionosphere, I had no direction to go other than down, I hit the deck and the ball landed about 10 feet from me. After I got my wits about me I looked over at the guy I had been paired up with. He was of (of course) no use to me as he was bent over his push cart brushing the tears out of his eyes while trying to catch his breath.

*Railroad tracks run parallel with the tee box and fairways of hole four about 50 feet away. Depending on what time of the day it is you can watch your ball do the cha-cha on your tee and fall off as the train goes by. This was an interesting couple of minutes as all golf came to a halt on hole 4 until the train passed.

*Hole eight is a fun one also, I call this “shooting the gauntlet” - you have to drive the ball between two giant towers to make it to the wide open fairway where you will dog leg right to avoid the huge mound of earth that reminds me of an Indian burial mound that guards the green. The real sucker punch of this green is the bunkers between the death mound and the greens that you can not see if you try to drive the ball over it.

Final verdict: I will be back for my free birthday play! I love me some strange!