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Richard Berger
Moorpark
2011-09-02
$71 (cart included), played on Wednesday, March 2009 at 10am
To call this golf course a goat pasture is to insult the goats. Even the designer admitted that it's built on bad land. If you build a golf course on land that cannot be walked, you'd better be sure that the design is not tricked up. It may look nice, but unless target golf is your thing, you won't like this place. There is nothing strategic about any of the holes I played...just hit the ball to a precise spot, then hit the next shot to another precise spot. If you don't, your ball winds up in some screwy place and you make double bogey (or worse). Some people think that if a golf course is hard, it's good. I no longer think that. Jack Nicklaus builds golf courses for scratch golfers. They are not fun to play. Neither is this.
$71 (cart included), played on Wednesday, March 2009 at 10am
To call this golf course a goat pasture is to insult the goats. Even the designer admitted that it's built on bad land. If you build a golf course on land that cannot be walked, you'd better be sure that the design is not tricked up. It may look nice, but unless target golf is your thing, you won't like this place. There is nothing strategic about any of the holes I played...just hit the ball to a precise spot, then hit the next shot to another precise spot. If you don't, your ball winds up in some screwy place and you make double bogey (or worse). Some people think that if a golf course is hard, it's good. I no longer think that. Jack Nicklaus builds golf courses for scratch golfers. They are not fun to play. Neither is this.