Post by tightdraw on May 23, 2011 21:02:36 GMT -5
This is an old course designed by Donald Ross. It has a beautifully designed club house that is more a beautiful shell than a beautiful facility. It's beyond its heyday and the facility has not been maintained to the level of the fully private courses in the area. The practice facility is good. Bunkers, a fine putting green and a large enough range with pretty good balls.
Very little has been done to modernize a 1920s Ross design. That means it is relatively short course; roughly in the 6600 yd range. To its credit, the course makes sense. There are a variety of holes and they relate to one another. It is old fashioned in that way and I really like that feature of it. Also there is proximity from one green to the next tee: also desirable. I hate modern golf courses where you need a bus pass to get from hole to hole. Also I take no pleasure in playing what I call 'calendar' golf courses where the holes look like they should be on a calendar and don't relate to one another. There is a great consistency in the holes on this course.
The layout is flat with no fake hills or mounds. Very little water. The holes are well designed and strategy comes in on many holes, but the management group are not sensitive to golf course architecture since they don't know how to shape the fairways.
The biggest disappointment is that they don't know how to maintain the Ross character of the greens and the fall off and collection areas off the greens. So you get a Donald Ross course that does not play like a Donald Ross course. It has potential and is a fine layout in principle and fun to play but they have made less of it than is there.
Finally, a bit overpriced: 50.00 after 12 in mid May.
TD
Very little has been done to modernize a 1920s Ross design. That means it is relatively short course; roughly in the 6600 yd range. To its credit, the course makes sense. There are a variety of holes and they relate to one another. It is old fashioned in that way and I really like that feature of it. Also there is proximity from one green to the next tee: also desirable. I hate modern golf courses where you need a bus pass to get from hole to hole. Also I take no pleasure in playing what I call 'calendar' golf courses where the holes look like they should be on a calendar and don't relate to one another. There is a great consistency in the holes on this course.
The layout is flat with no fake hills or mounds. Very little water. The holes are well designed and strategy comes in on many holes, but the management group are not sensitive to golf course architecture since they don't know how to shape the fairways.
The biggest disappointment is that they don't know how to maintain the Ross character of the greens and the fall off and collection areas off the greens. So you get a Donald Ross course that does not play like a Donald Ross course. It has potential and is a fine layout in principle and fun to play but they have made less of it than is there.
Finally, a bit overpriced: 50.00 after 12 in mid May.
TD