Played on Monday morning at 7:30 as a threesome and finished in 3 hours 45 min. Course was in excellent shape. Greens were fast and rolled true--though they don't have a lot of break, putts from above the hole were scary. Most of the greens slope significantly from back to front, so leave your ball below the hole (short of the pin) if you are an aggressive putter.

Fairways were lush with a few dry areas. I had great lies all day, with the ball sitting up, especially around the greens where they water more heavily. Tee boxes were lush (blue tees), sometimes the grass was deep enough that you really had to use a long tee. A couple of tee boxes were very unlevel, but most were very good.

The Riverside course is a good traditional type layout--big trees, some dog legs, holes you can see all of from the tee, and good for walking. No blind shots, gimmicky mounds or bowl shaped fairways. With Green River what you see is what you get, and in my book that is just fine.

A great place if you like to walk. Green fee is very reasonable. Greens were bumpy--sometimes long putts jumped into the air, but were surprisingly true in spite of the bumps. I walked up as a single and got right out, and played with some nice folks. Golfers seem more casual here, more the retired and laid back types, at least on this Friday morning, which made for an enjoyable day.

Nice layout, good variety of holes. A "bull dozer" design, with many (unnatural) humps, mounds and undulations to the fairways and greens. Most fairways are bowl shaped, so drives hit within their margins will come back into the center, but if you go up over the edges, watch out--lots of brush, etc. out there. Fairways and greens are well trapped, and traps around the greens can be deep. Rough is pretty deep around the greens if you stray too far off on your approach shots. Greens were fast and smooth, but with quite a few unrepaired or poorly repaired ball marks. Fairways are a little thin. They have three distinctly different types of grass in the fairways, some in weed like clumps, which surprised me for the quality (and cost) of the facility. Customer service was excellent, like a resort. If you like being fussed over, and are willing to pay for it, then this is a great place for you.

Played last week at 7:30 AM, completed the course in 4 hrs 10 mins and my group was told twice in the first five holes to speed up! So if the pace of play here is normally too slow for you, play early on a weekday and get ready to move fast. That said, the condition of the course isn't very good, bare spots in the fairways, sandy spots on the tees, and few of the tees are level. I played this course a lot twenty years ago, and I was surprised that there are now far fewer trees, as many have been allowed to die, and few if any have been replanted. Greens were lush but slow. Fairway sand traps have shrunken due to poor or inattentive maintenance--the two traps on the right side of the fifth fairway were once yawning obstacles, now they aren't much larger than a child's play pen. This course is a great layout that has suffered from many many years of poor maintenance. It has a good variety of holes, and the par 3's are especially strong. It's just too bad the city has used it for a cash cow, and put so little back into what was once an excellent test.

Played here for the second time since opening week. Fairways are visibly thinner on grass now, with more bare spots. The course is a good value for the money, though I hope they restrict carts on some fairways soon so the grass has a chance to establish itself. Greens are showing more ball marks, but they still putt quick and true. They have ball washers now too, which is nice. We played in 4.5 hours, on a Thursday morning, about a half hour faster than last time, though as a single I waited two hours to get on, in spite of the fact there was only one other person on the list in front of me. If you don't have a tee time I would recommend going elsewhere. It's too bad they don't leave any open times for walk ons.

Nice new course, but typical of modern designs in that you are either in the fairway or you lose your ball. Most fairways bottleneck in the landing areas, making the shorter more conservative tee shot preferable on nearly all par fours. Fairway grass is still growing in, so you can get some pretty strange bounces, and the ball rolls a long way. Take a wet towel if you like to play a clean ball. I saw only one ball washer near the blue tees on the entire course. Can't imagine how they forgot to buy ball washers(?). Round was very slow for early morning (took 5 hours teeing off at 7AM. Marshalls are plentiful, but there is little they can do when the whole course is so backed up. More staff on hand than an airport security screening station, so if you like the resort course feeling of people being all over you, carrying your clubs to and from your car, etc., you will love it here. Bring lots of balls unless you are a very straight and/or short hitter. A long iron off the tee turns out to be a pretty good idea on many holes, with landing areas that require you to choose your line depending on how far you can carry the ball. Unfortunately there are no indications of the distance of the carrys or how far the traps are, so you have to guess on many holes. A yardage guide would be very helpful. Greens are firm but putt very well. On the day I was there they painted the inside lip of the holes white, which was a nice touch. A good value for the money, but get ready for a long slow day.

Greens were so mushy that chip shots would hardly roll. You can see by all the maintenance workers on the course that they are trying hard to keep the greens and fairways in good shape, but to have maintenance workers standing on the greens watering, etc., while you are trying to hit approach shots is disconcerting. And they take their time and they don't move until they're done. Bare spots in landing areas could use some attention too! Sand traps are a nice mixture of brown dirt and hardpan. They could really use a few truckloads of sand. Practice area and practice putting greens were really nice though.

Canyons 9 was closed due to maintenance, but the course offered discount rates to make up for it. The greens were quick and pretty true, fairways were good for winter. Play was pretty slow, and it can get a little jammed up coming around because of players teeing off the first hole (since they only have 9 holes in play). The course would benefit from a marshal to move slower groups along.