Conditions the last couple of months I've come here have not been what they should be for the fare. A good overall layout with a couple of very good holes and some mediocre ones. Don't believe the "lost holes" hype as they were not faithful to George Thomas' design. Worth the play if paying the twilight fare, but certainly not if paying the full freight.

Played 12/29 for the 4th time this year. Gil Hanse has done a tremendous job redoing the course and has made this course an absolute gem. Unfortunately , some very recent changes were made by ownership to accomodate some golfers that don't understand what the design intent was with some of the bunkers, such as #4,#6,#9 and #10. The beautiful cross bunker on 4 was ruined by chopping it in half. The bunker was supposed to challenge the longer player who wanted to go for the better angle and carry this bunker to do so. There was a safety alley to the left but I guess there are some golfers that are just either too dumb or not even good enough to follow this simple route. A bad example of changing this great hole to accomodate a small group of players.

Then the small bunker in the middle on 6 was filled in ruining the overall design of the hole. This hole was somewhat a copy of the 12th at St Andrews where the player who chose to layup would still have to be careful about where to place the tee shot while the long player would be enticed to go for the green.

Then the front left front bunker was "pulled back" on 9.


Then the center bunker fronting the green on 10 was removed to give the "weaker" player an "opening" to run the ball onto the green. This seems odd considering that this is rough where the bunker used to be!


Despite these illadvised changes, Soule Park is fantastic. I just hope that there are no more changes to the great work that Hanse and his crew have done to the course. Shame, shame shame on the people that complained about these wonderfully designed holes and shame even more on the ownership for even doing them.

Fantastic course! Wonderful redesign by Hanse! Locals are very lucky to have this course so close to home. A better test than it's more famous neighbor. There is talk about redoing some parts again to accomodate weaker players. This would be a mistake! The course is rock solid just the way it is. There is a safe play on every hole and I think the detractors need to spend time practicing rather than spending the city's money to accomodate their game's faults. Don't miss this gem!