I played this course on Monday 11/05/12. I learned about this course from playing it on Tiger Woods Pga Tour for the wii and ps3. This is my first time playing this course in real life, but thankfully for the video game I had a sense of what I was up against. It was surreal being there to see the course layout in real life and it did not disappoint. From the first tee box, it started off with a big elevation drop overseeing the whole par 5 layout. This is a nice way to start out a round at a difficult course, gives room to recover from the first shot of the day lol. My preference for a golf course is more towards the layout, challenge and scenery it delivers...So with that in mind, that is were this review will be based on.

Layout wise the course can be a workout for some, you find yourself catching your breath after you park the cart and then find your way up to the elevated tees and greens. Its a small hike on some of the holes, but its fun, I don't mind the work out, its part of the experience. I just soaked in the moment and looked around being able to see a lot of the course after climbing up to the second tee box. It over looked much of the course and reveals to you what awaits you. An amazing view of the layout, a picture hole on every single one. I felt like an explorer climbing the rock stairs until i reached the top of the tee box on the second hole to look down at the whole course as if I just reached the top of the world. The 150 markers were clear to see from the tee boxes, they were made from a block of rock with the wolf creek logo on them, but it was good to have visible markers, one of the earlier courses our group played didn't have markers and it was something that I appreciated having on the course.

Challenge wise the course demands accuracy off the tee box. You have to adjust properly for the elevation drops, so some of the holes it was just a guess and hope if you had enough carry to reach the fairway. Its a fantasy type of course and it was fun to have this type of challenge. The greens today were soft, looked like they didn't cut them down, so the result was the greens rolls really slow today. Not a big deal, had they been fast, we would of probably had a frustrating time lag putting from certain high points on the greens. My playing partners had played this course before so they shared their stories of how fast the greens were for them when they last played, so I could imaging seeing the breaks in the greens how difficult it could have been, which would provide a very challenging time on the greens on top of an already challenging course. Soft greens was a little blessing then. 

There were plenty of scenic views; from almost all the tee boxes you were able to oversee the complete layouts of a lot of the previously played and upcoming holes. From the the low valleys you were presented with elevated greens that demanded you grab a club or more extra to getter on. The waters that surrounded the holes were clear and had some ducks hanging out in them. The bunkers had soft sand filled in them and i had a couple of lies on the side of the bunkers that i had to play out of. I remember the the waterfall on the 18th hole right next to the cart path. Thought this was a nice placement to end the round with something to remember.

After our round the staff presented us with a coupon for the bar, buy one get one free drink. I went to their pro shop and found a jacket that I bought then we went to the bar and used our drink coupons. The bar was quiet this day, probably because it was a Monday, but it was clean and one bartender was there to help us out. 

Their range was out front when you first enter, and it isn't long enough for a driver, so its irons only. We used it to warm up prior to our round. I noticed they had Nike practice range balls, but unfortunately they didn't carry or maybe they were out of stock of any Nike 20xi-x golf balls that I wanted to buy in their pro shop. I ran out of these golf balls as this was the 6th round of golf we played in our four day long golf vacation trip and I needed to restock my golf bag with them.

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