I was able to participate in the Boulder City golf day at Cascata today 5-14-2018. I was amazing. Breakfast before the round and lunch after. This course is high end and everything about it shows w... Continue »

I was able to participate in the Boulder City golf day at Cascata today 5-14-2018. I was amazing. Breakfast before the round and lunch after. This course is high end and everything about it shows why.

I have played here twice both during GK Guru events that were just before the end of summer over seeding and while it was awesome then, this time in the prime season was over the top.

Starting bright and early we arrived at the course at 7:15 am and were greeted at the bag drop by an attendant that was very responsive and made sure to get our bags tagged with our names and on to our cart. Normally this would be a valet car drop, but the field was so big today that we self parked in the lower parking lot and were shuttled back to the club house.

We then checked in and were seated for a nice hot breakfast. Breakfast burritos, breakfast sandwiches, potatoes, fresh cut fruit and juice or coffee. Delicious!

After breakfast we went to the range and short game area. The greens were aerated 5 days before and you could see the punch marks, but the greens still were running at 10 and were true. There was no evidence of residual sand and the greens were healing nicely.

At 8:30 we teed off in a shotgun format starting on hole 15 a short par 3.

This course was in immaculate shape all around. The tee boxes were perfectly manicured and level. There was slight evidence of divot repair but nothing you wouldn’t expect. Everywhere else that wasn’t marked as a teeing ground on the tee box was pristine.

The fairways were like carpet. Always a nice lie and no unrepaired divots anywhere. They stay on top of any divots everywhere on this course. You are required to have a forecaddie in each group that rides along on back of one of the carts. He is there to fill every divot, and repair every pitch mark on greens as well as rake all bunkers. They are also very good at giving yardage’s adjusted for elevation and wind. It was a great experience and well worth the tip.

As I mentioned the greens had no visible pitch mark damage and even thou recently punched, it was the small tines, they were healing great and were of no consequence to the true roll and speed throughout the course.

The bunkers were many and they were somewhat inconsistent. Some were fluffy and some were harder then others, but you could immediately tell when walking into them what to expect. When I say harder, I mean harder then the fluffy ones, not hard like most Vegas bunkers. You could always get your club into the sand and under the ball.

The rough was cut fairly short and was not much of a factor when you were in it.

The beverage car came around 4 times during our round and there were many coolers on the course with cold bottled water in them.

After our round we were treated to a nice lunch, with either chicken breast, fish, or hot dog-hamburgers. Nice potatoe salad and more fresh fruit. This was a high class outing and it was a fraction of the normal cost. I won’t say how much it cost, but I checked online tee times for the next day and they were going for $495. Our outing was about 25% of that. Meals and caddie included!

This was a fantastic day and a great way for the course to give back to the local community.

The staff was exceptional and were beyond friendly. This day was as close as you can come to a 10!