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Henry Enthel
Piscataway
2011-09-09
$16 (cart not included), played on Wednesday, May 2011 at 2pm
The course used to be a great place to play and enjoy a challenging round. The new pro, Jill is obsessed with pushing as many golfers through as fast as possible. For example, if you tee off and there was two open times ahead of you, they will push you to catch up to the group two holes ahead of you. They have even forced groups to skip a hole to catch them. She has removed bunkers and cut the bottoms off of every tree on the course. No longer is it a fairways and greens course. As a result, rangers ride around with watches timing your every move. They don't say a thing to anyone about courtesy, replacing divots, fixing ball marks, raking bunkers, etc. At the first tee, the ranger will tell you that if you don't move fast, they will move you. Just a great golf friendly course! NOT! So now, the course that everyone loved to play has become a second rate cow pasture with a nasty condescending female pro ringing the cash register as fast as possible to beef up her bonus. Too bad. At one time this course was listed in Golf Digest's top 100. But that's when they had a real pro who knew the game. Not anymore.
Would travel: 0-10 Miles, Not Vacation Worthy
Bottom line: Better courses for less nearby, Worse than average course for the area
$16 (cart not included), played on Wednesday, May 2011 at 2pm
The course used to be a great place to play and enjoy a challenging round. The new pro, Jill is obsessed with pushing as many golfers through as fast as possible. For example, if you tee off and there was two open times ahead of you, they will push you to catch up to the group two holes ahead of you. They have even forced groups to skip a hole to catch them. She has removed bunkers and cut the bottoms off of every tree on the course. No longer is it a fairways and greens course. As a result, rangers ride around with watches timing your every move. They don't say a thing to anyone about courtesy, replacing divots, fixing ball marks, raking bunkers, etc. At the first tee, the ranger will tell you that if you don't move fast, they will move you. Just a great golf friendly course! NOT! So now, the course that everyone loved to play has become a second rate cow pasture with a nasty condescending female pro ringing the cash register as fast as possible to beef up her bonus. Too bad. At one time this course was listed in Golf Digest's top 100. But that's when they had a real pro who knew the game. Not anymore.