Our second round of our recent Mesquite golf trip was to Coyote Springs. We played this course on our last trip to Mesquite and we all agreed that we needed to add it to the rotation again since we a... Continue »

Our second round of our recent Mesquite golf trip was to Coyote Springs. We played this course on our last trip to Mesquite and we all agreed that we needed to add it to the rotation again since we all enjoyed it so much. To be honest, this is the course I was most looking forward to playing on the entire trip. I enjoyed it that much.

This course is literally in the middle of nowhere. It is about a 50 minute drive from Mesquite. There is nothing around this course for as far as you can see. It is actually quite sad to be honest. They must have had huge plans for this place a few years ago. There are house pads graded everywhere around the course. You can see areas where it was going to obviously be a grand entrance to a private gated community. The rumor is that there was supposed to be some 6,000 homes and two courses at this place and there is not one single home to be seen and only one course. It is crazy. Someone really lost their shorts here! It's hard not to feel for them.

The weather was by far the worst I have every played in. It was in the mid to high 30s and it rained the entire day. I packed a ton of layers of clothes in my bag but I didn't think to put the clothes in plastic bags. The rain soaked my bag and everything in it. I had no dry clothes to put on through the round so I just had to be wet and freezing. I actually stopped playing after 9 holes because I could not stop shaking and my fingers were starting to tingle. I am definitely a fair weather golfer. This was a struggle for me.

The weather was obviously not the fault of the course. The marshal actually come by on about hole 8 and just looked at us, shook his head, and laughed.

The course was not in the same shape that I remembered it a few years ago but it was also a different time of the year - November last time, March this time. I remember the greenest fairways and the nicest course conditions I have ever played last time. This time was not the case. I could have had my expectations too high or the terrible weather could have had me down - I don't know. It just was not what I expected.

The course had the winter look to it. Brownish dormant fairways and rough. It is conditions I would expect for a course that did not overseed. I am not sure if they did or not, but it had that feel. This was the most expensive round of golf on our entire trip ($160) and it was definitely in the worst condition. It was very playable but just not what I had expected. Again, I may have had too high of expectations or it could have been the weather but I just felt like it was not really worth the green fee at the moment. My opinion.

As for the course, the layout is absolutely awesome. It is one of my favorites. The greens are typical Nicklaus greens. Not one section of the green is flat and it looks like they buried cars under each of them. They would be brutal is they were rocket fast.

This course is definitely worth the drive from Mesquite just not the very high green fees. I think when the weather gets a little warmer, the course will be in awesome shape. It was playable but it did not have that wow factor like I remember from last time. Give it a little time and think it will be back to glory.