AggiePride07 said:
Yep. Water on every hole but #3. OB's are all over too with it being in a neighborhood. Almost all the greens are elevated so you have to be able to lean on a good short game when you miss the green (like myself a lot). It's a tough course, and as I said handicaps travel well when you play there all the time.
Was a member there for a couple of years. Course is an acquired taste. I didn't particularly care for it much the first time I played it, but was told to give it a chance by a few members (lots of good guys out there). They were right, the more I played it and learned the little things here and there, the more I liked it. The one thing that I do not like to this day, however, is that out of four par-5s, you can really only hit driver on one of them. That said, you will hit every club in your bag most rounds, and the direction+severity of the wind will make the course play VERY differently.
Funny story, shortly after we joined, my dad and brother came to play on my birthday. My dad is not a very good golfer, but he's not terrible. Typically shoots 95-115 on a normal course. I told him to make sure he brought a bunch of balls. Long story short, we usually cap out at double-par for him, but he kept his own separate card counting every shot. When we got done I asked what he really shot, and it was 159 if I remember correctly.
It is a golf-centric club, so the other things are an afterthought. Facilities are decent, men's locker room is small, but serves its purpose. Food is good overall, but service is slow (don't even think about ordering real food at the turn). The pool is nothing special, so other than special events or holiday weekends where they had real staff to serve food and booze, it didn't make much sense for my wife and kids to drive 20 minutes to swim when our neighborhood pool is much bigger and nicer, and 60 seconds from the house. The tennis courts were recently re-surfaced but while we were there my wife inquired multiple times about beginner clinics for her and my son, with both the club itself and the tennis pro directly, with virtually no response.
Had some of the "other" stuff been more accessible and made a priority, we may very well still be members. It ended up that i was the only one making any use of the club, and it was costing me about $150 a round when we did the math, so we dropped it.
