Used to LOVE this course, but holy hell, the way they manage pace of play has gotten absolutely…read moreridiculous.
Played 8/16 around 5 PM and it was a complete shitshow. They apparently do NOTHING to keep pace of play moving.
The biggest issue was allowing a GROUP OF SIX to play together while holding everybody up. And yes, the group of six were all women. Each one of them was hitting 2-3 balls off the tee, then they'd go looking for all those balls, lose them, take a drop, and hit ANOTHER 2-3 balls from there. This wasn't just one bad hole either--we watched this happen HOLE AFTER HOLE. Six people doing that every hole adds up REAL quick. At that point you're not playing a round of golf, you're using the course as your personal driving range.
We were literally waiting 5-10 MINUTES at the tee box on EVERY SINGLE HOLE. Not one bad hole. Not one random backup. EVERY. HOLE. If you're going to hit that many balls, STICK TO THE RANGE. There are actual people who paid to play the course and want to enjoy their round, not spend half their day sitting around watching six people have a practice session.
The pace got so bad that I ended up pairing up with some randoms who were in front of me because everyone was getting backed up. Eventually, we passed the group of six and played ahead of them.
Here's the part that really shows how ridiculous it was: after passing them, we FINISHED TWO FULL HOLES and they were STILL PLAYING THE SAME HOLE WE PASSED THEM ON. A group of random people who literally paired up because of the backup managed to finish two holes before this group of six could finish ONE. That's not normal slow play. That's absurd.
I even saw a course worker and specifically mentioned the pace of play and the group holding everybody up. His response was basically, "Yeah bud, sorry, not much I can do," and he just kept driving off. LMAO. Not much you can do?? You're literally working at the golf course. Who exactly IS supposed to do something?
Then later on I see the same worker stopped at a hole chit-chatting with that same group of girls like they're all buddy-buddy. Whether they actually knew each other or not, that's a TERRIBLE look after a paying customer just complained about that exact group's pace of play.
And before somebody twists this, them being women isn't the problem. The problem is SIX people playing together, each hitting multiple balls, losing them, taking drops, hitting multiple balls AGAIN, and having zero consideration for everybody stacked up behind them while the course does absolutely nothing about it. If you're more concerned with hitting a whole bucket of balls, making TikToks, and looking cute for the golf trend on social media or whatever they had going on than maintaining pace, GO TO THE RANGE.
Then after dealing with all of that for basically the entire round, my cart DIED on the THIRD-TO-LAST HOLE. That was literally the cherry on top. After spending the entire round waiting around, I wasn't about to deal with a dead cart too. I said fuck it, packed my shit up and called it a day.
And somehow I wasn't even the only one. I saw at least THREE other groups whose carts died too. When multiple carts are dying during the same round, that's not bad luck--that's terrible maintenance.
So in one round we had 5-10 minute waits at EVERY tee box, a sixsome holding up the course, each person hitting 2-3 balls off the tee and then another 2-3 after taking drops, zero pace-of-play enforcement, a worker basically saying "not much I can do," multiple dead carts, and then my own cart dying with THREE HOLES LEFT.
If you're going to charge people to play, MANAGE YOUR DAMN COURSE. Enforce reasonable group sizes, have somebody actually manage pace of play, and make sure your carts can survive 18 holes.
Used to genuinely enjoy playing here, but this was ridiculous. The cart dying on the third-to-last hole was just the final "yeah, fuck this" moment. Packed it up and went home.