Mission Hills - Gary Player Course

Somehow tough golf course to play but definitely enjoyable as usual i

Absolutely the best greens in the valley!

The fairways are beautiful the staff friendly the price works. The overall experience was exceptional right from being checked in by Angelica in the pro shop

Greens and fairways were great.

Amazing value for the price

While the carts had GPS (rare for courses in the area), everything else was definitely lacking for the price of this course. The pro shop and the restaurant were basically a trailer. Rest of the course and layout were fine but not great.

The course has wonderful mountain vistas (like all courses in the area) and is great to play. All areas that normally apply to the game were really good. Tee boxes and fairways were lush but cut well and with consistent height throughout. The fairway was always well defined from the dormant rough which has a nice effect. Greens weren't super quick but rolled well and felt consistent. Everyone was over-reading break all day so I recommend just going at the cup. We missed so many just burning edges because of over-reading. Rough was also evenly lush throughout and easy to hit from so it's nice to have some forgiveness because most of the fairways aren't very wide.

The only negatives about the course:

1) bunkers were generally hard packed and not fluffy. Sure they had a little rain recently but these looked more like neglected maintenance.

2) For the price you would hope the areas surrounding the playing surface would be in better shape. Maybe it's still residual damage from hurricane hillary that hasn't been done but again it felt like much of the aesthetic areas bordering the playing surface were either dead or washed out or unkempt. Most of the stone tablet-signs for each hole were weathered and stained, some areas around the cart paths had standing water and seemingly there were problems with irrigation in various spots. Looked more like scenery at an old budget muni especially considering the great playing surfaces. I wish I could have played it back when it was first constructed. The layout would have really shined visually with full water hazards and sharp manicuring.

If you come to play golf you won't be disappointed, but don't expect a pretty course.

This beautiful course is in excellent condition as usual

Very impressed with condition of tees, fairways, and greens. Greens were a little slow (assume due to overseeding) but rolled great. Played this course two years ago in early April and was not nearly as impressed with the course as I was today.