This was our first round on Monday morning. They don't open until 7:00 (same pretty much at any course around here) and didn't seem to want us out there first, so they put a twosome of walkers out ahe... Continue »

This was our first round on Monday morning. They don't open until 7:00 (same pretty much at any course around here) and didn't seem to want us out there first, so they put a twosome of walkers out ahead of us. The walkers let us play through after a few holes. We did have to deal with maintenance quite a bit, but they were nice and it wasn't too bad. We played most of the back nine without the greens being cut or rolled, so they were wetter and slower. We used a GolfMoose voucher and it was a great deal compared to normal morning rack rates here.

Conditions were good overall. Again it was very wet from tee to green with soft fairways and not much roll-out on drives. The rough was a bit spotty in places, but never presented too much of a challenge unless you strayed way off the fairways. The tee boxes and fairways were lush and in generally good condition with just some minor weak spots here and there. The greens were soft, but well-maintained and rolling pretty good (even with the rooster tails on the wet ones).

I liked the front nine here more than the back. It seemed to have more character and more interesting terrain overall. The back nine is a more traditional parkland kind of layout with back-and-forth routing and nothing too distinctive outside a couple solid par-3s. Overall, this is a good course, but doesn't quite bring the dramatic mountain golf qualities that I enjoyed at many of the other courses we played on this trip.