The Bridges Golf Club

I have probably played Bridges close to 15 times over the past 20 years. And though we have several other courses in the area to choose from (some of which are less expensive), although Bridges is more challenging than all the others, it is always well maintained and the layout is beautiful. My index is a 12.3 and I typically shoot 85-89 here.

A little pricey but worth the money. Can be windy at a time but challenging.

I like the Bridges course because of its sloping fairways, often tight fairways, dog leg holes, and many hazards that you have to cross. It definitely makes you a better player as you try to keep your balls within boundaries. Even though I lost about a dozen balls, I still had a great time. Surprisingly, the greens seemed fairly easy, although they were quite fast. Layup holes like #15 are always fun. The tee boxes and greens were in fine shape. Some brown patches on the fairways, but generally they were in excellent condition.

Played on a weekday afternoon. Barely any one else on the course it was a great quick round. Probably gets pretty busy on the weekends though. Beautiful setup.

The layout tough but cartpath only really made it rough if you don't know the course.

I didn’t know that there were too many areas that were far path only. Also sharing cart with a stranger was new to me too. But altogether good course with difficulty.

The course is in great shape, some work needs to be done on the tee boxes

The course is in great shape, however the tee boxes need a lot of work

Course condition was great considering the rain from previous week and we were asked to play cart path only to keep it that way. Green speed was a tad slower than I remembered - but it made it less difficult to play the course that is already pretty much 133 slope from the white tee. I'd play blue tee in the summer but not when ball gets plugged on the fairway. I went into the bunkers a couple times and they were in great shape (I didn't get out any easier though). Pace of play was slow until the ranger showed up and nudged them to pick up the pace. After that we never had to wait - accelerated all they way to finish the round in 4 hour 20 min mark (with a walking player in the group).

Despite a 2.5 hour frost delay, starter did a good job of getting everyone on the course as timely as possible. Problem was with a Marshall who kept harassing us from hole 9-14. He told us we were more than a hole behind, but clearly he was on some power trip because we were at our worse, one hole behind, after we hit a patch of lost ball finding. We closed the gap to being to see the group ahead on the green or at the next tee box, but the harassing continued till one of the golfers showed him the photos we took on each hole of the group ahead of us. Without the photo evidence, he threatened to have us slip a hole. Either he got our group confused or he was on a major power trip. Marshals can other job and not be overbearing to the point it ruins the enjoyment of the round for everone else.