Played here this afternoon. Found a good deal on ezlinks for $23 and figured I'd give it a shot. It wasn't too busy when I got there ahead of my 12:45 time, so I headed out a few minutes early by myse... Continue »

Played here this afternoon. Found a good deal on ezlinks for $23 and figured I'd give it a shot. It wasn't too busy when I got there ahead of my 12:45 time, so I headed out a few minutes early by myself starting on the River nine. It was great for the first 6 holes and then caught up to all the groups. Joined up with the single ahead of me and it was very slow going after that. Front nine about 1:45 and back nine over 2:30 with 5 groups waiting to tee off on the 10th (Pine #1). Not as bad as it seemed. Since I was there and could see it wasn't crowded on the Mountain nine, I went ahead and played it as a replay for only $8.25 (cart still included) and zipped through that one pretty quickly. The course was actually in pretty good shape, much better than I would have expected. Pretty lush, thick kikuyu throughout fairways and rough. Bad, ugly patches here and there, but mostly green and nice. Tee boxes were pretty lumpy and not too level, but grass was pretty good on them for the most part. The greens were in great shape. Some unrepaired ball marks, but not as bad as some county courses get with so much play. The bunkers were pretty thin and could definitely use some more sand, but playable. I enjoyed the course more than expected. It's nothing too exciting or special and I won't be in any rush to come back, but not quite as boring as others have made it sound. Very wide open fairways. Flat terrain, but a lot of little humps and bumps, so not as many flat easy lies as you think. River nine greens pretty easy to get at, but Pine greens are a little more interesting and protected by some bigger bunkers. Mountain greens are tiny. The River/Pine combo plays quite long at over 6800 yards from the blue tees and the fluffy/sticky kikuyu means not a lot of roll out on drives, so it plays even longer than the scorecard suggests. In addition to red tees for the ladies, there are two sets of forward tees for men (white and gold). However, on EVERY tee box, the blues, whites and gold are really close to one another. There seems to be no significant advantage to playing up as I normally would.