Ok, do yourself a favor and read this. I took the plunge about 2 months ago and to give you a brief glimpse into what is to follow I will never be going back.

On the way up the place looks somewhat nice, nice pro-shop parking lot etc. The "niceness" ends there. The lady in the pro shop was somewhat rude and while we were making our way down to the range the nightmare kicked off.

The Range: Sucks. You cannot hit more than probably a 3,4 iron. It is all mats and there are so many people out there good luck getting a spot.

The Practice Green: Is ok. Large in size gives you an idea that the greens will be kinda slow.

The Course: Here's where the rubber meets the road. Keep in mind your paying nearly 100 dollars to play a course that took the city of carlsbad like 10 years and several millions of dollars to finish.
The course is dead. Dead. Dead. The grass is horrible. You can hit drives that roll an easy 50-60 yards because it is so hard. Good luck hitting down on the ball from fairways that are harder than tile. I guess I am ok with that and perhaps it is just the way I experienced it but lets get down to the things that will not change with just some water.

The layout: Frankly it just makes no sense. The course does not seem to flow at all the front 9 is just back and forth very simple design and the back nine is hillarious. Have fun driving over that stupid bridge that sounds like complete hell when you drive over it. You have to drive all the way over to the otherside of hell for one hole that is very mundane. There is a par 3 that the green is like a miniture golf course with HUGE levels on it.

PS: It is a 5 hour round.

Pleasant take aways: The last few holes on the back nine are not bad. The last par 5 is a decent hole. You can see into the Callaway testing center which makes you wish you were just there hitting balls. Even if the course was plus the layout is the worst part. I was constantly asking myself what the hell the designer was thinking.