Have been playing Shandin Hills for many, many years. For the most part it was usually in good to very good condition. I am very unhappy to report that it is in terrible condition. I am guessing it is due to no watering (because of the drought), but most of the fairways are not only extremely thin, but they are actually turning to pure dirt. This condition is very prevalent throughout the course. If they don't lay down some seed, and I mean quick, they will completely lose this course. Watering will not help as if the rains hit, they only thing that will be growing back is weeds.

This without a doubt is one of the worst courses I have played in 25 years of golf! Just for starters, the starter didn't show up! The maintenance man told us too tee off and pay at the turn. I wish now he would have just told us to come back later so I wouldn't have wasted my time and money. The fairways didn't have bare spots, they had bare areas that were huge. There was more bare than there was of grass. The greenery( I refer to it as greenery as it was not grass, but clumpy weeds) that was there was extremely thin and clumpy.
Sand traps had no sand, just hard pan dirt. Greens were bumpy but they at least had grass on them. Seriously, I would not play this course again even if it was for free.

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