Played here today with an 11:25 tee time purchased directly from the “Deals” section on their website for $42 plus $1.99 booking fee. Excellent deal! Showed up around 11:00 and they sent me to the sta... Continue »

Played here today with an 11:25 tee time purchased directly from the “Deals” section on their website for $42 plus $1.99 booking fee. Excellent deal! Showed up around 11:00 and they sent me to the starter right away. After I spent about five minutes walking around looking for the starter over by the carts (D’oh - the starter stand is in the other direction), I got sent straight to the first tee. The starter was concerned because he had no one to pair me with, but I said I was fine with it and he didn’t seem against sending me on my own. The foursome in front of me let me play through on the 3rd or 4th hole, and then I had no one in front of me until catching up with people on the approach to 10. They invited me to play through on 11, but pace was decent already and I was taking a bunch of pictures, so I told them I was fine. Finished around 2:45 p.m. for total POP of about 3:30-3:45. Covid stuff: Masks required in the shop, single rider carts for all unless you don’t want it, PVC pipes in the cups, no rakes in bunkers. There was ice in the ice chest on the cart and seed mix for divots. Saw the beverage cart once or twice.

Conditions are excellent! Greens are smooth, medium fast and accept full shots really well. Fairways are very lush and beautiful, no complaints. Rough is also very lush, about 2-3 inches deep. Sometimes the ball sits up and other times it sinks down a bit, which makes things much tougher. Bunkers were really nice. Black tee boxes were good; some of the par 3s had lots of divots, but still no problem finding a place to tee it up.

This was my first time playing the course and I loved it! I expected it to be a step down from Mountain, but I actually prefer it to Mountain. It’s very much a “desert” course where lots of holes have forced carries off the tee and then the fairways are lined with desert. The first par 5 is kinda hard to figure out as a first timer (even with GPS with hole diagrams on the cart), but it turns out to be a really interesting and attractive hole. Four of the five par 3s are great on this course, but the 12th is the real standout – just gorgeous! Also really liked the par-5 11th, the par-4 7th, and the par-4 18th. I played the tips, which provide a good challenge.

A great surprise and highly, highly recommended!