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Larry Benitz
Gaylord
2013-08-16
$51 (cart included), played on Sunday, August 2013 at 8am
I've played Marsh Ridge roughly every three years for the last couple decades. The course is showing signs of needing maintenance and TLC. The fairways and greens are in decent shape, the tee boxes are pretty bad, the traps need help as well (didn't help that none of traps had been raked - golfer's issue, not the courses). Mostly you notice how much the brush and "natural areas" have become overgrown. What used to be the signature hole, #10 - Par 3 with elevated tee box right beside Old 27 Highway, is now so overgrown that you can barely see it from the highway. Another long par 3 - #13 I think, 160 yards over marsh - is so overgrown that the green is barely visible from the tee box. What was once the natural beauty is now overgrown scrub. A good layout, the fairways and greens are fine, rest of the course is and getting a bit shabby.
$51 (cart included), played on Sunday, August 2013 at 8am
I've played Marsh Ridge roughly every three years for the last couple decades. The course is showing signs of needing maintenance and TLC. The fairways and greens are in decent shape, the tee boxes are pretty bad, the traps need help as well (didn't help that none of traps had been raked - golfer's issue, not the courses). Mostly you notice how much the brush and "natural areas" have become overgrown. What used to be the signature hole, #10 - Par 3 with elevated tee box right beside Old 27 Highway, is now so overgrown that you can barely see it from the highway. Another long par 3 - #13 I think, 160 yards over marsh - is so overgrown that the green is barely visible from the tee box. What was once the natural beauty is now overgrown scrub. A good layout, the fairways and greens are fine, rest of the course is and getting a bit shabby.