Steve in the pro shop is funny, personable, and just a really nice guy. I haven't been to the…read morecourse in a while, but happened to see him from afar at another golf course. He smiled, waved, and shouted "hey! Good to see ya!" to me. Real top man.
The facility has a small putting green that is pretty decent. It rolls just like the greens on the course, but is a little better-irrigated, probably from being a bit more sheltered than many greens, so it isn't as hard in the summer, so chips won't run out quite as much. There is also a short game area with a bunker and some longer grass to practice playing out of the sand. It's been closed for a little bit, but I imagine they have it opened back up. It's a really good little area to practice. They do not have a driving range, which is a bit of a bummer, but they did everything they could with the space they have.
The course is pretty good, too. In the summer, it gets pretty hot and dry, since a lot of the holes are exposed to the dead heat, but they generally do a good job keeping the place nice and tidy. The greens get very hard and patchy in the summer, but they lost their irrigation system this past summer, so they had to use a temporary green on the first. This was a rough summer for them. In the spring and winter, the course was in top shape. Every hole has nice, even greens with little undulation in general. They're super receptive. I create a lot of spin, so I usually don't play for too much run-out on most holes, but here, I usually have to strip some spin off on the shorter par 3's to keep the ball from rolling back too much. I've de-greened myself from the middle of the 10th (Lob wedge, 88 ish yards) and 12th (8i, 165 ish yards) from spin on the spring greens. Both have false fronts, but still, that's pretty ridiculous.
The layout is pretty short and sweet. All par 4's are driveable, and there is only one hole at 302 yards. The rest are in the 240-280 range. There isn't a lot of trouble, apart from some houses lining two par 4's (5th and 17th). There are houses along other holes, but they're more out of the way. There's a little pond to the right of one hole, but it's not really in play unless you hit a wicked slice on the 140-yarder. Bunkers line many greens, but all of them are nice to play out of. The sand is pretty soft most days, but isn't powdery. They're not too tricky as far as bunkers go. It's not a terribly windy course, but it becomes a tricky course if there is wind. You get a lot of different-angled holes relative to the wind, so it will challenge your ability to judge distances in imperfect conditions.
The golfers there are generally pretty slow in groups of 2 or more. It's a very flat, beginner-friendly course, so many of the groups have first-timers or high handicappers. I've joined up with many a group after catching up to them, and everybody I've played with has been really cool and open. You don't see the snobby type golfer on this course. If you want a nice, confidence-boosting course or are just getting into golf as a beginner, this is certainly a great course to try out. It's my favorite spot to take my friends who I'm converting to golf-ism.
