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| - This review is mostly because of the "A-ok" conditions the course was in. The morning started off with the starter saying the range is closed on Thursdays, it was 645 am and we needed to loosen our muscles a little bit. Then we went to roll some putts and the greens were recently plugged. ehhhh
The place is seriously preparing for the hot summer conditions. The greens were plugged within the last two weeks, and all the fairways and tees looked like they hadn't been mowed in 3 or 4 days, maybe more. In this prime growing season the grass is growing like crazy so they are probably just making sure everything is healthy before the big time heat moves into the valley. But honestly, golfers don't care. That's your problem. We don't want to pay good money to play on bumpy and slow greens, and we want to be able to tee our ball down to the ground on par 3's. Also, if we hit less than driver off the tee we don't want to catch a lot of grass before the ball because it's not properly mowed down. That's annoying and not good fun golf
Overall the layout of the two 9's we played are ok, some good holes, some kinda bad holes in my opinion. We played the Desperado 9 first and then the Outlaw 9 after that. The weather was great and we were early out so not much waiting around. That's always a nice way to play some golf.
This course will be very challenging to beginners because it is definitely "target golf." If you don't hit the fairways you will almost always have to replay the shot, you most likely won't be able to play it out of the desert unless you want to destroy your clubs on the billions of rocks out there.
I guess I had a pretty good time. It was still golf on a beautiful day with some fun friends. Just disappointed with the conditions of the golf course. If it was in good shape and calm again it would be a 4+ star golf course, but if it's windy, be prepared to reload because you're going to hit a few shots off line and into the rocks!
ps there's some pretty remarkable houses on the property, be sure to look around check some of them out as you're touring the links.
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