Canoa Ranch Golf Club

Teed off at 930am

left course after12 holes too HOT to enjoy more

Fairways were cut down to

ground level almost no grass to sit ball on except rough area...better off missing the fairway and hitting from rough!!!

when they killed off the original fairways of Chapparel Rye...they destroyed the course.

Superintendent should be fired

dried out fairways and aprons

punched greens still pretty bumpy after 4 weeks

terrible rock and hardpan bunkers

pro shop closed before I finished

Course is a fun, scenic layout and the new owners are making improvements including new bunker sand.

Greens were punched but no warning on golfnow. The sandbunkers are all rocks and some have orange cones around them. Do better. the desert views are great and course layout is strong but would never play w punched greens for full price.

In spite of the greens it was a wonderful day on a beautiful course with nice people. The course is always a challenge in wonderful surroundings. Marvelous vistas in every direction you look. Can hardly wait until next time.

I got to the course 1 & 1/2 hours early so I could practice. The starter said play was "sparse" at the moment, would I like to play alone? No, I said, I really prefer playing with the group of three golfer's you currently have me joining. Sure, I would too, he said.

So, off I went to hit a small bucket of balls, chip and putt.

A little before my tee time I went to the starter but had to wait a short time for him to return to his station. At this point he informed me I would need to play alone and the tee box was mine. What happened to the group I was to join, I responded. They already teed off, he said...and I wondered where you got off to.

So, I ended up with two players in front of me, who were playing from the tips (that they were not good enough to play from) and two players behind me.

The two in front were slow and the two in back were pushing me. I would have joined the two in back, but they never asked, even though there were ample opportunities to do so.

I made the best of it though and hit two shots when the two guys behind me were not pushing me hard.

This problem is not unique to Canoa Ranch. Most all of the starters in Green Valley don't try very hard to put foursomes out.

Fun layout with nice views but this is the second time recently that I have arrived for a booked tee time at a golf.now course to find without any prior notice a major aeration had just taken place. Very disappointing.