Crane Watch Club

Never played this course before and I did enjoy it. Conditions were fine and there is some work being done currently but it doesn’t effect play for the most part. I would return.

The condition and difficulty of the course were all approximately on par with other courses in the area. The quality of the greens might have been slightly better. The clubhouse is a little tired looking, there is weird equipment and old broken down landscaping stuff in the parking lot right next to the starter - sloppy but does not objectively affect your golf round. The price was reasonable for the Sunday summer morning tee time we played. The condition of the course relative to some neighboring courses was in good shape for this time of year. There were two bathroom facilities on the course, both were outrageously dirty. I'm not overly picky about that kind of thing, but these facilities were an outright biohazard with feces spread across the bathroom. We arrived at these early in the morning during our round which indicates to me this issue was several days in the making without being cleaned up or addressed. As for pace of play - We had an unfortunate issue with some of the regular members of the course. We played as a "threesome" but with three total carts. We paid for 8 total 18 hole tee times, two foursome groups split in half and had tee times about 8 minutes apart per their booking availability. At the turn, we had two golfers from the second foursome split off and head home as they are not avid golfers and had enough of the heat. We arrived at the 10th tee as a "group" of 6, but three of our golfing members were playing for the first time ever. In order to avoid any pace issues we decided to organize two partner scramble format and essentially play as a threesome. Immediately after driving the carts down the very first fairway to catch up to our first drives, we had someone shout rather rudely down the fairway to "HURRY UP". By the time we made it off the 10th green, the starter came racing down the fairway to let us know we could not play as a group of 6. We were polite, acknowledged that we understood, explained we planned to play as a scramble to speed up pace of play, and before the starter left he acknowledged that this was different than a group of 6 and gave us the blessing to continue. I volunteered to split the groups up to avoid any friction from the groups behind JUST IN CASE. By hole 14, our friends foursome in front of us, and our now twosome had made great time and run approximately 2 holes ahead of the group behind us that had complained. We decided we were making great pace, and that we were not at risk of impacting pace of play behind us so we were going to just go ahead and crew back up as three carts to run a scramble for the last few holes of the round. While on 16, from an opposite fairway two holes behind us, we heard the original loudmouth "I KNEW IT, THEY ARE STILL PLAYING A 6". He drove over and started an altercation insisting he was a boomer member who had 20+ years on this course, etc. yada yada..... The pro shop apparently got called a second time, ran out to mediate - observed that we were two holes ahead and decided we were not the issue with pace of play on that area of the course. The group behind the complainers let us know on the way down a shared cart path that the guys harassing us were taking FOREVER and blaming it on us. Pro shop had the decency to apologize for their behavior.

Course is in pretty good shape a couple greens need some attention but still very playable

Greens are in horrible shape. They need to do something real quick. Or are they waiting for the snowbird to come back?

Although a work in progress, and often flooded due to weather conditions, this is my favorite course. It is laid out well with wide fairways, challenging, yet forgiving. Great staff, friendly people, and well run.

I wish the 19th hole was open more consistently, but it is Summer time…

Their email newsletter posts course conditions and improvement status. Very helpful.

Highly recommended.

Fairways grass dry nd not trimmed. Greens were unkept with lots of dry patches. Ground keeping crew were working around our game, no courtesy at all. The lawn mower operator remain actively riding while we tee off. Not the best experience during our day.

Excellent course conditions. A little soggy on the first couple of holes but the greens and fairways were in great shape. Enjoyed our round tremendously.

Greens are getting worse by the day. Don’t know why they let this happen.😂😂

You can see that there are attempts to improve the course…long way to go. Pace of play was great until we (3) ran into a group playing as five.

Very inconsistent. Some tee boxes were great others mostly dirt/mud.

Limited summer menu (which is understandable) after the round but bar area is very nice Value was good.

Would like to check it out in another month or so.

Buddy and I played for the first time. Had a great time. No cart person would be my only real complaint. Tee box’s needed some work on a couple holes. Fairways and greens were fantastic

That time of year when letting turn into crap needs help😂😂😩