Unfortunately when the date for my monthly golf group was announced (but not yet the venue), I checked to see if I was free and alas I was, so I opted in. Then a week ago I saw that we were playing at... Continue »

Unfortunately when the date for my monthly golf group was announced (but not yet the venue), I checked to see if I was free and alas I was, so I opted in. Then a week ago I saw that we were playing at Cresta Verde and it was too late for me to back out. I tried to make the best of it and imagine that maybe things had improved here dramatically since my last visit.

Not so much. I won't spend an hour here writing out everything wrong with the course that hasn't been said before, but it's not any better than it ever was, and that's sadly saying something. The greens are damaged, bumpy and inconsistent, the fairways are patchy where there's grass (never any guarantee of that) with the oh so infrequent area that's nice to hit a ball from, there's chaos, dirt and methane everywhere, the tee boxes are uneven and sparse, and there are no bunkers because they've been abandoned and turned into grass craters.

It is what it is. Wish I could report better news but that would be disingenuous. Maybe someday it would be worth coming back, but next time I'm getting the intel in advance before committing.