Played here today with a 10:30 TeeOff.com "Deal" time for $52. I'd seen them announce on IG that their bunker renovation was complete, which seemed to be the primary knock against this course for the ... Continue »

Played here today with a 10:30 TeeOff.com "Deal" time for $52. I'd seen them announce on IG that their bunker renovation was complete, which seemed to be the primary knock against this course for the past couple years. Checked in and was sent over to the tee on time, but then the starter accommodated a few guys who had 10:30 and 10:40 times to play together and knocked me back to 10:40. No big deal, and the 10:30 group ended up being surprisingly fast for how novice golfers they seemed to be. Minimal waits all day and total POP was just over 4:00.

Course conditions are wintery but decent. Greens are smooth and sneaky fast. My entire group had a hard time getting putts to stop near the hole. They were about medium firmness and almost always ran out some on most full shots. (One of the guys in my group said he believes these greens are a combination of real and synthetic grass. I agree there were some weird spots that looked sorta like fake grass or some sort of fungus, but I'm not sure they were synthetic. Anyone heard of that? He said Monarch Dunes does the same thing.) Citation (orange here, but blue in general) tee boxes were mixed quality; some good, some needing some TLC. Fairways had good coverage of colorant-treated dormant bermuda. The rough does not have the colorant and is fluffy deep bermuda in spots and thinner bermuda in others. Sometimes balls were hard to spot in the fluffy stuff. I was in one bunker and it was good.

This was my first time playing here. Hard to imagine the PGA Tour played this course at one time. It's very run down/rough around the edges feeling, and there's a weird smell of manmade lake/stream water throughout much of the course. The greens are fairly interesting with quite a bit of back-to-front slope on nearly every green, putting a premium on placement of your approach shot. I'm glad I've now played it but I doubt I'll rush back again anytime soon. Good value for the price I paid, though.