Got out for a GK match with Dconnally Thursday. Tee'd off a half hour late on a busy day, paired with an elderly father and middle-aged son. Conditions overall were pretty nice. Teeing grounds were co... Continue »

Got out for a GK match with Dconnally Thursday. Tee'd off a half hour late on a busy day, paired with an elderly father and middle-aged son. Conditions overall were pretty nice. Teeing grounds were consistently level with suitable coverage. Fairways were green and well covered. I don't recall any brown or thin areas. The rough was tough — lush and usually demanding some kind of wedge or punch shot to get back to the fairway for an opportunity to resume your round from a better place. I thought the groomed areas around the green offered very nice opportunities for pitching/chipping. From my experience, the bunkers were the biggest surprise even though a mixed bag. Hard with crusty or simply missing sand has long been the norm here and an accepted trade-off for the rest of the course. But on this day, a lot of green side bunkers had abundant new sand. Not all, as I was also in one that was old-style firmer and a fairway bunker that was more like a compacted waste area. The greens were in good shape, rolling mostly true at a nice quick speed that wasn't overly spicy. Teeing off at noon, it ended up being a five hour pace and we were among the last few groups to get 18 done as others were driving in from around the course. Minor issues were that the carts were nice and had GPS, but sometimes seemed to be working off an incorrect pin location. There are no longer any monuments or yardage makers to be found and as one who prefers to pace off yardages, I missed having the option. But you have to take a cart there and they have GPS so it is what it is and me being fussy. One also has to be very careful about no-go areas that kill your cart. Some are obvious and marked, but I found myself stuck at a crawl in areas I would assume were fair game to be driving in/through. Generally keep to the paths and fairways and enter rough and collateral areas gingerly so as to not find your cart momentum shut down. The gents we played with were pleasant, the service efficient (delayed start not withstanding), and the current playing sequence of the holes is a logical improvement. I always love the opportunity to play OQ and I don't get there often, so I appreciated it and recommend its current condition highly. Thanks to Dave for setting it up.