Bizzaro World - Update
Theory: Manager/Owner is a good guy, but getting a bad rap based on other reviews referencing his conduct AND local Belchertown golfer friends/relatives avoiding MVG Links and directing me to play elsewhere.
Fact (chapter 1): No one in Pro Shop for 10 minutes following my arrival. Heard worker bee leave out other door, when I entered, so they knew there was a customer that had arrived. Female employee arrives in great spirits and chats with me for a few minutes, telling me manager should be by soon. Manager arrives and tells me how he has spent a lot of cash updating the course (since 1999) and how proud he was of the course. I agree. I like the improvements. I ask him if he is "getting the numbers/customers", he pauses and says he's not concerned with the revenue so much as this is "his passion". That means "no". I am pointed to a cart.
Fact (chapter 2): I finish my round and I am feeling defeated and wiped out as the course is a very tough one with trees defining very narrow fairways. Normally I score in the 80s and on this course, using my friend's dads very old clubs I shot a 103. I'm looking just to get out of there with my tail between my legs when the manager/owner zips over to me on a golf cart. I am positioned behind my car spending a minute or two getting ready to put the golf bag in the car. I had noticed a worker on a tractor dragging a watering apparatus which was obviously watering down the dirt parking lot on the opposite end of the lot. I expected the owner to ask me how my round was, or make sure I enjoyed the experience but instead I get "you couldn't get out of his way for 2 minutes?" I looked up and noticed the worker on the tractor hadn't even been waiting. Astonished, I jokingly said "yes, it was my grand plan to block your worker from watering the parking lot immediately behind my car". He then said, "I need you to move the cart", so I left my bag behind my car and moved the cart 30 feet away. By this time, the worker had moved on. The owner was breathing fast and red in the face.
Conclusion: Believe the reviews. This owner is a "piece of work". Prior to getting my money, he's "Susie Sunshine". Post "money secure", he's forgotten who I was, the nice conversation we had, and he's coming at me with teeth bared to get me to move my cart which would have been moved sooner had he not rushed over and got his "panties in a wad". You will see a lot of "no", "can't", "don't", and "you are responsible for" signs tatooed all over the course, but no signs of encouragement or care from the owner. It's a shame, he's driving customers away and only looking at them as a money maker. He surely does not treat customers with respect. Unless and until ownership changes, my money will be spent elsewhere. read more