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| - well your first clue about this place is that they don't actually have a full 18 hole course. they have three 9-hole courses and when you want to play a full round, you end up playing two of the three 9-hole courses. so this should tell you right off the bat that you aren't going to get a championship caliber 18-hole experience. if a golf-course designer didn't plan for the 17th hole to be the 17th hole then you aren't getting an experience crafted by a mastermind golf guru.
even still... even with the lowered expectations, not the best group of 9-hole courses in the world either. kind of like a muni course, i think. should be pretty cheap although i paid for a group of the courses all on one long weekend in vegas so i don't know exactly how much it is. you can check, i imagine, on the web site. critical points i thought were two:
1- surronded by fairly non-descript, uniform-looking houses which made the views ugly. it's not like there were mansions surronding the course. even more preferable to mansions would have been nothing but views and rolling vistas. but the bottom of the barrel would be views of ugly houses which is what you get.
2- not as much green as you'd hope. i don't mind the occasional forced-carry (which is defined in golf terminology as when you need to hit a long distance over an obstacle and there is no option to hit around it or through it). you see this every so often when the tee box is surronded (on a desert course) by, say, desert and cactus. and the fairway doesn't begin for 150 or 200 yards. so that's a forced carry of 150-200 yards. in other words, if you can't hit it that distance, you can't even start the hole. which is pretty difficult because there's a huge % of golfers that cannot hit 200 yards. i was fine with it because i am driving 240-270 these days but a lot of my pals were less than amused. now you get some forced carries from the tee box at Paiute but you have the feeling they put them there on purpose so you'd get an up-close vista of some really nice desert landscape in the middle of the course. at silverstone, there were forced carries off the tee box on many, many holes and the landscape in the middle is not as beautiful as paiute. you get the feeling that the forced carry isn't there to add to the vista but because they were just too lazy to water more grass.
and beyond that, the course wasn't in too good a shape. the greens were touch and go, the rough wasn't uniformly cut, etc, etc... all in all, more like a good, solid muni course - not a resort course at all.
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