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3.7
293 Reviews (293)
5 Stars
60
4 Stars
133
3 Stars
65
2 Stars
20
1 Stars
15
Conditions
3.4
Value
3.9
Layout
3.8
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.4
83.4%
Recommend this course
241 out of 293 reviews
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Average Rating
Avg Rating
4.0
31 Reviews (31)
5 Stars
7
4 Stars
18
3 Stars
4
2 Stars
2
1 Stars
0
Conditions
3.5
Value
4.1
Layout
4.0
Pace
4.1
Amenities
3.7
StaffFriendliness
4.5
96.8%
Recommend this course
30 out of 31 reviews
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3.9
78 Reviews (78)
5 Stars
18
4 Stars
38
3 Stars
16
2 Stars
5
1 Stars
1
Conditions
3.5
Value
3.9
Layout
3.8
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.6
StaffFriendliness
4.2
88.5%
Recommend this course
69 out of 78 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Par 72
Length 6628 yards
Slope 117
Rating 70.6
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Course Details

Year Built 1954
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Steve Timm (2008) William P. Bell (1954)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $10 - $15
Clubs Yes
Pull-carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper attire is required.

Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities

Reviews

3.7
293 Reviews (293)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 10
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 6
This course/club is great for:
Locals 13
Walkers 13
Seniors 9
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 14

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Played On
Reviews 35
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Quick round

The greens are in great condition. At this time of year, the fairways are drier and a lot of bare spots. We finished our round in about 3.5 hrs teeing off at 1040 so it was a fun day. Definitely will try to play this week again.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Good times.

Had a great time. A Course had a great layout peso play was good and the greens were in great condition the 19th hole was the best. Victor is an awesome guy. Great food.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 17
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 54
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Greens were good

Only played here a handful of times over the last decade but the green were in excellent shape and the fastest I had ever play them. Go get it while the greens are good.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
4.0
Previously Played

Nice course, horrible starter

The course is very nice in pretty good condition. The starter is not good. It would be nice when you have a 5:25 am tee time that the starter would be ready to work so that that you tee off at 5:25. The starter on this course is always late. He did not even start checking in the 5:25 group until 5:25. Not so great for the following groups. They must all be running late. I also don’t know how there are two groups ahead of me if I had the first tee time. I guess you can just get there before the starter does and play without paying. Not very professional if you ask me.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Nice🤙🤩

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 151
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Lol what?

No bathrooms because their water system got jacked up. No electric carts because reasons. No push carts because no electric carts. Waited for an hour before my tee time, checking in repeatedly to see if I could get a push cart. Five minutes before my tee time they gave a push cart which just came in to another person who just showed up.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 16
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Ranger needed

The group in front of kept hitting many range balls and spent too much time on the green practicing putting. Need ranger to monitor.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 144
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Top 100 Contributor
Previously Played
Walked

Greens spongy, maintenance is really bad

Hilarious. Look at my pic. What is that? Bunker or trap. Sure it's a trap because it's just junk. How can they let it get like this? Seriously. And then the greens were soft, spongy and bumpy, just horrible.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 144
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Top 100 Contributor
Previously Played

Maintenance is lax

Why do maintenance neglect Hole 3??? It’s always in the worst shape. The first fairway bunker on the left is NOT a bunker any more, it has overgrowth and hasn’t been maintained in months, it seems. But it’s still a hole. What are we supposed to do with it? And then as you approach the green, they haven’t figured out how to maintain the dirt patch to the left of the green where rule-breaking lazy cart drivers have literally TRASHED the area because they just barge through the ropes and tear up the area with the carts even though it’s already just dirt. Why don’t they just block that area off completely with more stakes and ropes and force people to drive around it. I don’t get it. We pay good money for the whole course, they should maintain this Hole just like the rest of the course. It’s a total disgrace.
And there are other areas like this that are starting to get bare and ripped apart by cart drivers who just don’t care. They drive on the tee boxes and park their carts 5 feet from greens and just rip the course apart. And then they wonder why the course is in such bad shape.
Sad. But that’s why culture.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
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