Played my second round of the day on the Olde London course. The Nassau course is closed right now for summer maintenance. This one just reopened, so I was hoping that would mean good things condition... Continue »

Played my second round of the day on the Olde London course. The Nassau course is closed right now for summer maintenance. This one just reopened, so I was hoping that would mean good things condition-wise. Not really the case. The price was a reasonable $32.50 ($30 plus tax, booked through GN for a slight discount off $35 rack rate). Teed off on my own around 9:00 and had the place to myself. Saw some groups on the back, but never caught them and finished in around two hours. The lady in the pro shop was very nice and made sure I was following proper hydration procedures a la cpennbo. Luckily, the heat was barely an issue as strong winds off the water kept things tolerable. That would have been a different story if I played in the late afternoon. By then, the wind was gone and it was a stifling 115 degrees! The course is not in very good shape, other than the greens. The greens were pretty nice for mid-summer. Firm and relatively slow, but mostly smooth surfaces. It was hard to make a ball mark, so that helped with keeping them smooth on top. The fairways are very patchy with some really shaggy spots and a lot of bare spots. A ton of pigeons out there snacking on whatever seed they have put out. There really isn't any rough as the fairways just kind of blend unceremoniously into the dirt on the outer edges. Bunkers had decent sand and were consistent with how they played. A tad thin, but playable. I can cut the course some slack with it being the middle of summer. I wouldn't expect the conditions to be too great this time of year, but even at it's best I would assume this course is always a little rough around the edges. This is kind of a quirky old layout. The back nine, which is the "newer" part of the course added well after the original 9 holes, is a little nicer design than the front. The front has surrounding houses and streets feel uncomfortably close and there are a lot of narrow angles off the tees. And when there isn't a lot of definition on the fairways, it's kind of hard to get comfortable with your aiming points when you don't know the course.