Played early in the morning on Monday, 12/31/07, on a sunny warm day with only light breezes. Weather had forecast cold and windy, so I was overdressed but conditions were a pleasant surprise. We were... Continue »

Played early in the morning on Monday, 12/31/07, on a sunny warm day with only light breezes. Weather had forecast cold and windy, so I was overdressed but conditions were a pleasant surprise. We were out on time to a course in very good condition. Recent course renovations were not obvious to me as I haven’t played here in several years, but I did note some changes from the old yardage book I had – bunkers new or now gone, some greens a little larger. All aspects of the course were in very good shape. Fairways were good, traps fluffy, rough not very long and easily played from. Greens were very smooth and rolled well - too well in my opinion. Previous posters on this site frequently refer to how much they like ‘fast’ greens, but these greens were silly fast. If you are 5 feet above the pin, you know that you have no hope of stopping the ball before it gets at least 10 feet below the pin. This isn’t fun, and makes for very slow and frustrated play – we were out for >5 hours. Let’s face it, 95% of golfers can’t handle greens with this speed, so how does it benefit the course to spend the money to maintain them? Is it the golfer-manly-masochist factor? The ‘I got beat up at the Babe!’ bragging rights? It’s necessary to keep the greens very firm to maintain this speed, so the greens don’t hold shots unless you can spin the ball like the pros. How many of us spin the ball like that? I don’t - I had several shots that I thought were well-hit bound across the greens into trouble. I don’t have a problem with quick challenging greens, but putting on plate glass down a slope isn’t my idea of a sporting challenge. I can’t recommend the course for any but very good golfers.