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There really aren't enough words to describe how truly bad this course is. Our recommendation is that you never play this course in the hopes that it will go out of business. Then, maybe
someone who cares will but this course and give it a face lift. As of the time of this review, this course ties (maybe even beats) Putter's Paradise (Challenge) on the Berlin Turnpike as the worst course
we've played. The only redeeming factor on this course is that is has brand new carpeting on the holes. Other than that, it's a wasteland. Here's three things that right away should tell people it's a bad course. First, their scorecards don't even have a place to write in your total score. Second, they don't even have their own golf pencils. Hell, they don't even have generic golf pencils that you can buy at Staples for about $10 for 100. Instead, they have golf pencils from Tunxis Golf Plantation, a mega golf complex a few miles up the road. We surmise that they somehow managed to steal a box of pencils from the complex. The third thing is the real kicker. The only thing in bloom on the course is plastic flowers. Yup, they don't even have real flowers. The plastic ones are placed randomly and serve more to make the course look tacky than to make it look better.
This leads us into one of the biggest drawbacks to this course. Basically, it looks like and overgrown parking lot. The white rocks that fill the spaces between the holes are littered with weeds and
everything not plastic in the flower boxes is dead and rotting. The course is a terrible eye-sore, but a few well-placed bushes prevents people from noticing this from the road. Add to that the fact that
1 of 3 moving obstacles worked and you felt as if you were playing a golf course that had been long closed- possibly in a post-apocalyptic waste world ala Mad Max. This brings us to crappy point
number two: this course only had six obstacles, of which two didn't work, one had horrible design flaws and one was bee-infested. If this course was trying to mix obstacles with non-obstacles, then it
failed miserably. Even the one that did work was a crappy windmill, which you could putt under no matter what. The blades, nor any part of the windmill, actually came down to ball height. Finally, this
course had two of our most hated designs in it. The first is that the outlines of the holes are concrete. Nothing reeks more of cheesiness than a course created by pouring a bunch of concrete one day.
There's no thought or creativity at all. The second is the weird type of cup that makes it next to impossible to sink long putts correctly. Added to that was that there were some cups which you were
afraid to put your hand into for fear that it would never come out. As far as difficulty goes, it's not all that hard as long as you forget about some of the terrible design flaws on many of the holes. I
think we've said enough about creativity and atmosphere to explain those pathetic scores.
Fortunately, not all was lost on this course. It did feature our phallic hole of the day, which seems to pop up (no pun intended) in many courses. However, we stress again that you should avoid this
course. We played it so you don't have to. Don't even stop if you happen to drive by it. Until we hear that it's under new management, we will surely never return.
Pat Sheridan (2001), The Putting Penguin
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