Right off the get go it was a pretty poor experience. I had a tee-time booked for 2 at 11:56. My friend and I arrived on time, however, when we go there it was obvious that they had over booked. The line up at the starter must have been four groups long, with many of them foursomes. The people in front of us said they had a tee-time at 12:20, yet they teed off before us for some odd reason.
It would have made sense for my group of two to tee-off first as we were driving, and overall better players than the two in front of us who were elderly and walking. Generally, I wouldn't mind, and everybody has their own pace of play, which is fine, but course etiquette has to come into play at some point. It took us nearly 3 hours to play the front nine which included the majority of holes as par threes.
Secondly, the staff. The starter at the beginning of the day, though friendly, clearly lost control of the start times and the groups. However, it was when we finally finished the front nine when things got hairy. We pulled up to the tenth tee, and I'll add at this point that we were the last group to tee off before a summer camp, so there wasn't a group behind us. I got out of the cart to get some refreshments from the clubhouse as there was no beverage cart going around the course. I go in and place an order, the woman said it would be a couple of minutes, so I should take the drinks to the cart and go back and get the food. When I did this the starter (who was different than the one in the morning) shouted at me and told me I was holding up play by going back and forth, even though there was nobody behind me. Said I was the one with no etiquette, which I found ironic. All in all, it was an atrocious experience. The course was poorly maintained. There mustn't be a sprinkler system as the ground, from fairway to rough, and everything inbetween was rock hard. I won't be golfing at this course again, and I would suggest nobody else does either. read more