Kentucky Damn Village Course

[warbirdlover]

sssmokin has played this course in the fall and it is just fine at that time of the year.

In March, however, this course is a swamp (lowland) with no drainage. The burmuda fairways are not green and are like hitting off of steel wool. Cart path only which means lots of walking to your ball and back to the cart. (About killed sssmokin and myself). Makes for much more walking then if you just carried or pulled/pushed a hand cart. If we make this trip again we will do what we did the last days of this trip and play Mineral Mound (not far and can be substituted for this course in the TZ package) which is set up for drainage. Still balls plugged on both courses. The Kentucky Damn course had not put out the ball washers yet on the front nine so you have this ball covered with mud with no way to clean it. Should have bought one of those "Frogger" towels.

Bottom line. Don't play this course until summer.

[sssmokin]

Here's a couple of Mineral Mounds dormant bermuda grass swamp pics.............

[SilverUberXeno]

Even King's North in Myrtle at the end of Feb was cart-path only. Really is a load of bollocks. Who can't keep a course in pristine shape when carts aren't allowed on it??? That being said, KN was actually in great shape; only played one course that I felt was "lousy". I'm sorry you didn't have a similar experience in Kentucky. No ball washers is quite unacceptable. Was it still freezing overnight or something?

[warbirdlover]

Was hovering around 70º F first two (sunny) days and then dropped for the downpour on the last day. We didn't play in that.

[sssmokin]

It's a real guessing game with the weather when we do this. It would be nice to find an area that you could go at the last minute after making sure the weather would co-operate, and still get a package rate without having to make a reservation a month ahead of time, with $200 down to hold it.