The Bridges Golf Club

Pretty pleasing course. Some slower players would not let us through but the Marshall's helped out. Bring your target golf here. Fun hitting over hazards but lost a few golf balls here!

The course is very difficult from the back tees as the landing areas are often barely visible and many tee shots require less than driver or a solid ability to shape a tee shot. The green complexes are interesting and offer challenging up and downs, but the greens themselves are frequently bumpy, patchy, and generally haggered. The surfaces used to be better - not sure if it's a volume issue or if they're softening them to ease play, but something's going on there. Overall, play forward of where you would normally and expect bumpy greens if you're not going out early.

The course was in great shape and played a round in 4 hours (3 PM tee time). Definitely purchase a yardage book at the pro shop since there are a few blind tee shots. Awesome deal to play for $35.

I have a love hate relationship with the Bridges golf course. On the one hand, I love the beauty of the course. It's well maintained and has the feeling of a high-end golf course in every regard. On the other hand, it's too darn difficult if your game is not on. Johnny Miller courses tend to punish players who can't keep the ball in the fairways and hit many GIR. But Bridges is the worst of all.

My game was on when I played on September 14 and I still scored badly. The main reason was I lost a number of balls and not all of them because of really bad shots. No, when you miss fairways here, even by just a little, it's often the equivalent of lost balls. There is simply no room for mistakes off the tee.

In the end, I give the course 4 stars because it's a very nice course. But I would give it no more than 2 stars for playability. Stay away from this course if you can't hit straight.

Course is difficult but only "unfair " on a couple holes. It helps if you play with someone that knows the course, as we were lucky enough to do. Very well maintained for the most part. Pace of play was a bit of a problem for a weekday - would not want to hit this course on a busy weekend. Overall a great ,challenging golf experience.