A beautiful course made absolutely ugly by its staff.

We played on 3/16/14

When we paid for the round, I asked if we had time to get coffee and they said yes, since we were second out and there was a gap to the 3rd group who had not checked in. We showed up to the 1st tee about 3 minutes late only because only 1 person helped us get coffee. Instead of the starter saying "Good morning gentlemen. You are starting a little late so I have to ask you to make sure that you don't hold up play," we got "You are late and you are impacting MY schedule for the rest of the day. If you can't show up on time, you shouldn't book so early."

At the 3rd green, the Marshall, said we were playing way too slow and that we were holding up play. He said we were on pace for a 5-6 hour round. The first 3 holes are a par 5,4 and 3. We were on pace for a 4:15 round. The group behind us (4-some) was still putting on hole 2 and the group in front of us was pulling away (3-some). We were a 4-some.

On the 6th hole, the Marshall again approached us and said we had not sped up and that we were affecting everyone else's round (still on a 4:15 round and making sure we didn't hold anyone up). The group behind us was hitting onto the green on the 5th hole. In other words, we were pulling away from them. The marshall's reasoning was we were not keeping up with the group in front of us.

Through out the round, the Marshall was following us from hole to hole and the group behind us never caught up. Around the 13th hole, we noticed the group behind us was different. They had been passed by another group. This new group also never came closer than 1 full hole behind us. When we finished the Par 5- 18, they had just teed off.

When we finished the round, 2 young employees came over to clean our clubs and they both commented how slow we were playing. I said, "if we played so slow, then why did no one catch up to us and why did the group behind us get passed?" The response was," Sir, you need to direct your comments to management." I told him to stay away from my clubs.

We drove the carts to our car and then these same employees again said, "that the next time we come back that we need to play at a 3.5 hour pace".

I bit my tongue at the time omly because one of my playing partners has clients that like to go there and the reservation was under his name. I was absolutely furious. Maybe they don't like people from LA/OC. Maybe they don't like Asians (didn't want to say it, but I did not see any other ethnicities there).

What ever the case, if they didn't want me to play there again, they accomplished their mission.

I may be a little jaded in my comments but that is because the Marshall nagged us to pick up the pace. We were playing a 4 hour pace. He only came to warn us after a local 2-some passed our group and obviously complained. When we got to a par 3 we were going to let them play through. We went back and they were struggling on a long hole. So yes, I have a problem when a course listens to a local rather than looking at the actual pace of play.

As for the course, it was "Good from far, but far from good". The tee boxes were not mowed. They were uneven, tore up and often pointing in the wrong direction. The fairways were ok. The rough was dead in some locations so you were hitting off of dead grass and hard pan. The greens were in good condition. The sand traps were more like rock traps. Seriously, 25% of the trap was rocks about 1/8"-1/4" in size. In some, there were 6" rocks that had rolled into the traps. And forget about anyone raking the traps. I don't blame the golfers because there are no rakes. There was one trap that was about 100 feet long and it had one rake. Then again, there were so many rocks and they were so hard, you barely left a mark.

Its an ok course, but for the fee, I expect more. I will say that the club house staff and the range staff were excellent.

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