Lake Presidential Golf Club

The course is in great shape and you actually played right in the middle of the green aeration process. A healthy amount of sand is required to properly top dress the greens and provide a consistent surface. Sounds like you played a couple of holes while we were still dragging the sand in. Greens and overall conditions are excellent and we invite you to see for yourself. Thanks

Thank you for the nice review and we so very much appreciate you recognizing how hard we are all working to restore this property to its "glory" as you suggest. Thank you for coming out to play and we look forward to having you here many more times in 2018!

Thank you for the comment. Yes, we are working hard to restore this facility and the carts on the paths is an integral part of the process. The fairways are coming along fabulously and we are scheduled to be off the path in April 2018. Until then, its a short walk to your ball and a little exercise is good for all of us.

Thank you for the positive comments. We do appreciate and are happy to see you noticing all the improvements and efforts we are making to recreate the awesome course we all want. Yes, the cart path only is a slight distraction, but it is required to prepare the turf properly again after so many years of neglect. In the meantime, a little walking is very good for all of us. Thanks again.

Thank you for the nice comments. We too love the layout here and there are some fabulous vistas along the way. You are right about difficulty and cart path. The latter is required as we continue to restore the fairways. For the difficulty factor, we agree completely, play from the White Tee. The point is to enjoy yourself and this will make it much more fun for us average golfers. Hope to see you soon!

Thank you very much for the great comments and for recognizing how hard we have been and will continue to work, to bring this course back to the conditions we all deserve and desire. Myself and the team appreciate your support and patience in this endeavor.

Thank you for commenting on the course. We appreciate it.

Interesting you talk about drinking water, but we do have water stations on every third hole (6 in total) throughout the golf course. We also run the Bev Carts all day. Not sure if you used the water stations, but they are there and are iced and refilled daily with fresh water.

I'm sorry you didn't see the notifications on Golf Now. They are posted everywhere for Aerification. Our own website and counter team informs everyone prior to their tee time. This course is playing wonderfully when you keep it in the fairway and on the green. And as you say, the greens are in fabulous shape and will be healed from Aerification in no time. We have dozens of members here who all think the conditions here rival any course in the area as they have played them all and still choose Lake Presidential for service, quality of the course, and continuing condition improvement.

I'm sorry to read this review. Especially when we went out of our way to accommodate your group a second time. Its unfortunate you rate us as "so bad" when your group was in fact holding everyone behind you up. You were both in fact 25 minutes behind Pace of Play guidelines. The Pace of Play guidelines are set specifically for Cart Path Only guidelines" and the timing is more than generous to play the course in this fashion. The ladies did drive off the cart path numerous times and were gently reminded to stay on the path. You also were informed far in advance of the "Cart Path Only rules" before you made your tee time. They were the same as when your group played your outing the month prior. If you are going to rate us poorly, then please be factual with your responses. We appreciate the criticism and are working hard to improve the facility, but please provide other golfers with the appropriate feedback. Thank you.

Thank you very much for the nice comments. We greatly appreciate you recognizing how hard we are working to restore this awesome facility.

Thanks again, and we look forward to having you back very soon.

Thank you for the nice comments. We are actually w0rking on an improved yardage marking process as you speak. In the meantime, we do have an excellent GPS program on our App. Download Lake Presidential on your smart phone. Thanks again for the positive comments and recognizing how hard we are working to restore the course.

Interesting comment. Its unfortunate you don't make note of our extra Marshaling and new Pace of Play clocks to keep you on pace. Set at 4:45 even with Cart Path Only guidelines, it is disappointing to hear that you couldn't keep up with the Pace when most golfers that play ready golf are finishing way ahead of projections.

Thank you for the nice comments. We appreciate it and glad you recognized the extreme efforts we are putting forth to restore the facility. As a note, our Rack Rate is $95 and you did get a significant discount even if you played Prime Time on the 16th. The most you would have paid is $65. That's a discount of $30 off the rack rate.

I'm sorry to hear that you think the course is in terrible condition. In fact, this facility is nearly 90% regrown in from just the fall of 2017. See the before and after photos on our website and facebook. www.lakepresidential.com Additionally, the greens are cut and rolled to an excellent 9.5 consistency. Plenty fast for the average to above average golfer considering our undulations. People and members playing here regularly recognize the extreme work put in to make this a top course again. BTW..We have never had a 6-hour round. In reviewing tracking for the day you played, the slowest round of the 5:05. Its unfortunate that reviewers feel the need to over-exaggerate and dispel all the hard work many are putting into this course to make it awesome again. All courses are designed to walk. Carts are merely a convenience. A little walking will do us all good.

Thank you for the nice comments. We very much appreciate it. We also want to thank you for supporting our Cart Path Only plan as we restore the course. As you probably noticed, the fairways are responding very well and the greens are rolling wonderfully. Thank you again and we look forward to seeing you here again very soon.

Thank you for the response. Like I said, pace of play was my only gripe about the round. There was nobody behind us. We started at 1025 and finished right around 4pm. It would take us nearly 15 minutes on the tee box on the back nine to tee off due to the group in front of us. Be sure to know that I was tracking this due to the fact that I had to leave after the round to go get my daughter. 12 minute intervals or not, there was no way the group in front of us was playing the way they should've. Multiple tee shots, spending too long to search for their multiple tee shots and just not playing ready golf.

Thanks for the nice comments about the course. We appreciate that you recognize how hard we are working to correct the conditions here.

Not sure about the Pace of Play though. We have never had a 6-hour round. I will investigate for sure. We do calculate about a 5 hour round based on the difficulty of the course. This is why we space our Tee Times at 12 minutes to ensure proper distance between groups. If someone plays faster/slower than that, it can clog the course. We are aiming for a relaxed and unstressed round. Thank you again for coming out. We do appreciate it and hope to see you here again soon.

SJ

I'm sorry to hear that you think the Pace of Play was slow. You did play on one of the busiest days of the year and we track every round. The worst time was 5:03 for Monday the 3rd. Very respectable for a course of this difficulty, day of play and Cart Path Only. Additionally, we post everywhere that we are Cart Path Only. It is even on the Golf Now site as you booked your tee time. I'm sorry you did not notice it, but we have let everyone know up front. The course is progressing very well. In fact, this facility is nearly 80% regrown in from just the fall of 2017. See the before and after photos on our website and facebook. www.lakepresidential.com The fairways are actually in nice shape and very playable as you said, specifically because we have prevented the carts from driving on to the fairways. Even one cart right now would damage and undo all the work we have done to restore this. Now imagine 160 golfers a day driving all over it. We will be Cart Path Only for quite some time. Come play, the little bit of walking is good for all of us.

I'm sorry to hear that you think the course is in terrible condition. In fact, this facility is nearly 80% regrown in from just the fall of 2017. See the before and after photos on our website and facebook. www.lakepresidential.com

Additionally, the greens are cut and rolled to an excellent 9.5 consistency. Plenty fast for the average to above average golfer considering our undulations. People and members playing here regularly recognize the extreme work put in to make this a top course again.

I'm sorry to hear that you think the course is in not progressing. In fact, this facility is nearly 80% regrown in from just the fall of 2017. See the before and after photos on our website and facebook. www.lakepresidential.com

Additionally, the fairways are in nice shop as you said specifically because we have prevented the carts from driving on to the fairways. Even one cart right now would damage and undo all the work we have done to restore this. Now imagine 160 golfers a day driving all over it. We will be Cart Path Only for quite some time. Come play, the little bit of walking is good for all of us.