This course is amazing for getting great deals on golf gear, club fittings, and lessons. Knowledgeable instructors and best deals you'll find in town on quality equipment.
Although, it's the worst in town for the experience of actually playing golf. The course gets so much play that it's always in horrible condition, very slow pace, and the marshalls are the golf course equivalent of mall security with inflamed superiority complexes.
That's the jist of this review, but my most recent experience was ridiculous if you'd like to stick around for just how bad this place is...
After being unable to reach the clubhouse all day to schedule a Thursday twilight tee time (no one answered the phone literally 3 or 4 attempts throughout the day) my buddy and I showed up to try and walk on at 5:30p. The clubhouse let us on and said we are good to go. So far so good.
We were told by the first marshall at #1 to start on #11 because it was so backed up.
Sure, no problem, we just want to start playing.
We ride to 11, and there's a group on the fairway and a group already on the tee. Welp, that's not gonna work. We notice one fairway over that 17 and 18 wide open. So we head to 17 tee to start playing, which seems to be the protocol for the day to just find a tee box.
We're about to tee off and a second marshall rolls up and is visibly angry that we just skipped over to 17. We told him we were told to start at 11, but it was backed up so we just went to an open tee box. He became very agitated with us, rambling about how it would make things worse etc, but then started blaming us for this, saying "you picked the wrong day to play, you shouldnt have come" (things you should never say to a paying customer that you just let on to the course).
He interrogated us, asking what time our tee time was supposed to be, and we explained we didn't have the opportunity to schedule a tee time because no one answered the phone (there's no online tee time platform either, of course). He then accused us of lying about not being able to make a tee time, saying "Not RedTail, they always answer the phone every time I call." My buddy offered to show him his call log, and he just scoffed back at us.
He was quite a peach with borderline belligerent behavior for his role. It's like buddy, your team let us on! We paid the greens fee! This is a YOU problem, don't treat us like we are in the wrong when you have no handle on your golf course.
Once cooler heads somewhat prevailed, he told us to go back to 10.
Okay, so we start heading back and again get intercepted by the first marshall, who was calmer and apologetic. "That was my fault sorry" he admitted, as he misunderstood where the other groups were and knew we just got reamed by the other marshall.
The first marshall then suggests that we should DROP ON THE FAIRWAY of 13 to start. What a joke. I mean, I know it's just a twilight round, but starting in the middle of a fairway after paying to play the course is unacceptable.
We ended up just going to the 13 tee box and letting the group behind us know what had been going on. They were understanding since they were feeling a similar sentiment towards the course management.
So, on a Thursday evening we were on the course for about 30 minutes and 4 different holes running around like bozos before we swung a club.
I can say with confidence I'll never play this course again unless someone pays for my round. There are too many better courses in town to deal with this place. read more