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| - It's never too early to golf, no matter how much you drank the night before. Nothing stopped us from having our balls teed up at Toka Sticks and ready to go for our 6:30 tee time on a March Sunday morning. Being the second group to go off, we finished our round in a shade under three hours beating the heat and giving us some extra time to relax before the next Cactus League game. Our experience was A-OK with no major issues with the employees, the facilities, and the course.
We weren't greeted at bag drop-off and waited about 5 minutes in the pro shop before someone checked us in and gave us our receipt for our $55/person round. After about a ten minute warm up on the driving range, balls were flying right at our tee time. With no major hang ups on any of the holes we flew through the course which was for the most part well groomed and very open.
I'm not good enough to say any course is easy, but from the middle tees, the course plays 6400 yards and with a slope rating of 116, us bogey golfers' target should be right at 90. You should aim for a low score because there's not much trouble on the course at all. Aside from the holes on the boundaries of the course and the four holes bordering water, you can hit the ball anywhere and still have a shot. Even with me blocking a couple drives a fairway over, getting there in regulation still wasn't out of the realm of possibilities. Other than the front having three par 3's and three par 5's, there's not much that is unique about the course. All of the holes seemed kind of the same and not one hole really stuck out.
When we finished, no one greeted us, so clean your own clubs. If you're scratch, you'll probably scoff at this course. This track is better suited for hacks like me, but we only played here because it was convenient to our hotel. Lack of availability at other courses is the only other reasons I see myself retruning to this course which really isn't convenient to anything.
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