A friend and I played the Welk resort fountains course on 7/17/16 while our wives were watching the kids at the Welk resort. The course is an 18 hole executive course with an overall par 58 with a fe... Continue »

A friend and I played the Welk resort fountains course on 7/17/16 while our wives were watching the kids at the Welk resort. The course is an 18 hole executive course with an overall par 58 with a few par 4s mainly par 3s and no par 5s. We played from the blues and I think the average shot was about 160 yards with a few par 3s around 180-200. The par 4s very fun and drive able but often played smarter with a layup shot. The greens are very small but are kept in nice order and are the best part of the course. They were soft and easily help shots they were kinda slow but minimal divot damage allowed for pretty true rolls. Possibly due to the size of the greens but it felt like every pin was placed about three paces from the edge. The few fairways they had were thin but still sported green grass with a few areas of divot damage intermingled. The grass in the non green side rough was dry and brown there were some bare spots. The rough around the greens was green and had maybe an inch of growth and was in much better shape. The tee boxes all sported alot of divot damage (it was Sunday and I do not know when they move the tees there were other areas that the tees could have been placed that did not have alot of damage). All of the tee boxes had areas on them that were not level which contributed to the divot problem as everyone crowds the level spot leaving lots of divots. The sand traps were the worst part of the course. The bunkers were not raked at all and you could tell where other people had played shots and not raked. Upon closer inspection the shoe prints and divots appeared to be days old. The sand in them was good mostly a brownish clay color but still fine enough to allow a club to pass through. The pace of play was very slow we played the executive course in around 4 hours my friend said it normally is alot faster and this pace was abnormally slow. Overall this is a nice short course that was a great break from the family fun. I do not know if I would drive the 45 mins from my house to play this course given the conditions but I would play again if we stay at the Welk resort again.