West at Tamarack Golf Course

Picked this course because its centrally located and I was meeting up with friends that live all over the state. The course itself is not all that bad. Interesting layout, challenging holes, and it's in pretty good condition.

Now the bad. We also picked this course because it had a driving range. Of course it was closed so they could mow it. Would think they could find a less busy time to maintain the driving range than 9:30 in the morning when you have 500 golfers trying to get out and play.

Now the worst part. On Thursdays they have a womans group go out. They must have reserved tre times every week on this day. They slowed the entire course down. They were hitting the ball no more than 25 yards each swing. It looked more like croquet than golf. We hit the turn after 3 hours. The entire round took 5 and half hours to complete. Lesson learned, never again. Stay away from this place on Thursday total disaster.

fairway maintenance is terrible due to a lot of ducks craps......I can not walk thru it......

Setting out to play Tamarack West on Thanksgiving Day was a perfect idea, but my 11:50am Hot Deal got changed to an 11:30am start time when a nice guy from the course called me to say that their last tee time was going to 11:30. 20 minutes earlier was no problem for me since he was honoring the Hot Deal price. It only took me 30 minutes to get there and there were only a few cars in the parking lot and guys coming off of the course as I walked to the clubhouse.

I got a key and headed out to the West Course. The only issue I saw the whole day were leaves on the greens. I can deal with the leaves in the Fall in the rough and even blowing on the fairways, but when you hit a shot onto the green and can’t see your ball and start to doubt your shots it gets frustrating.

Love the layout and with nobody on the course I zipped around in 2 hours 15 minutes and didn’t see anyone until the foursome on the 12th tee who let me play through.

Now I booked the West because I had thought I never played it, but had 3 years ago, so I need to get back and play the East Course. They will see me again soon and I may have found a new regular course to put in the rotation.

I have not played here in many years because of the condition of the course. But, it is in much better shape now. Greens were good, but not too fast. Some crabgrass off the fairways. It seems to be improving. The west is very challenging, you must be long and straight.