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General George V. Underwood, Jr. Golf Complex - Sunrise Course
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About
Sunrise opened in April of 1995, bringing a more modern layout to the Underwood facility. Ken Dye (Painted Dunes) built the course as sort of a Scottish links/desert-style track with undulating fairways and a multitude of water hazards. Quite a bit of dirt was moved to sculpt the flat terrain.
On the front No. 5 stands out because it plays as a 465-yard par 4, but No. 9 is the most difficult because of its even greater length-a 587-yard par 5. Holes of note on the back are the 302-yard No. 11, which offers a great chance for birdie; another long par 4 in No. 13 (452 yards); and the mean 18th, a 441-yard dogleg right.
Getting there : Located off I-10 and Gateway. From I-10 east, take US Hwy. 54 north and exit Ellerthorpe. Turn right and drive down the road into the housing development, where you will eventually see the clubhouse.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 72 | 6942 yards | 73.1 | 126 |
| Blue | 72 | 6420 yards | 70.4 | 117 |
| White | 72 | 5959 yards | 68.1 | 113 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5498 yards | 71.1 | 124 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold M: 73.5/135 | 366 | 324 | 167 | 432 | 463 | 523 | 209 | 417 | 577 | 3478 | 399 | 307 | 404 | 459 | 515 | 162 | 553 | 224 | 441 | 3464 | 6942 |
| Blue M: 71.4/129 | 333 | 302 | 139 | 401 | 423 | 499 | 173 | 385 | 549 | 3204 | 382 | 283 | 376 | 427 | 488 | 137 | 513 | 195 | 415 | 3216 | 6420 |
| White M: 68.2/116 | 307 | 279 | 123 | 373 | 397 | 474 | 152 | 360 | 515 | 2980 | 351 | 258 | 352 | 393 | 466 | 124 | 482 | 170 | 383 | 2979 | 5959 |
| Red W: 71.6/135 | 280 | 251 | 108 | 349 | 367 | 452 | 137 | 336 | 478 | 2758 | 326 | 239 | 329 | 362 | 436 | 107 | 438 | 149 | 354 | 2740 | 5498 |
| Handicap | 13 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 4 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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This good for the price.
Course needs more work and water. Greens also need work.
Great layout, course condition a disaster
I’ve played this course twice in the past 60 days. The course layout is challenging and has a lot of potential but due to the course condition it’s absolutely borderline playable. Tee boxes are in horrible shape, good fairways on the par 4 & par 5’s are near impossible to come by. The greens are burning up, and it does not help that almost majority of the sprinkler heads and lines are broken or do not operate properly. WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND the course be closed for major renovation, hire an experienced green keeper and also have a cart girl for goodness sake to add some amenities to the course while your playing. Come on Fort Bliss, if you’re gonna have this course at least maintain it. Soldiers & retirees deserve better.
Fun course to relax
Course is in good shape, for the price it’s worth it. Fun course to relax with great pace! Never over crowded.
Course in really bad shape
Course is in bad shape all over, greens, fairways, tees. This is a military public golf course, I think our soldiers deserve better.
Another round of golf.!
Course needs a little work..greens are pretty good!
Course is great for beginners.
Course fairways are just fair and green need more work.
Bad grounds maintenance
I’ve been coming here for years and during the closure of Sunrise course, I only went a few times to play at the Sunset course. Now that Sunset is permanently closed and I went to play at Sunrise and to my surprise, the course is in worse conditions. Before there were irrigation problems all over, presently there is still those problem and what seems like a lack of maintenance on tee boxes, fairways, and especially greens.
It's a good course , but still needs some more work
Course still has some wet spots were putting in is hard and some wet spots on the fairway. Some over size grassy areas were you can lose your golf ball 's.
This course is in bad conditions
The course is in bad conditions. They have it as cart path only and the course is super bad conditions. I don’t see the reason of cart path only if the course is not even green. The greens are bad full of bad weeds. They close for a little thought they will make it better but definitely not.
$20 course
70% of the greens had some for in construction going on. Puddles of water on the fairways, long weeds on the fairways. No grass if the same due to the amount of weeds growing along the fairways.
It’s a great course if everything else is booked or if they started charging $20.
