We hope those other courses do well, but we cater to a different type of golfer. People who play here are working people who don't necessarily have time to take off from work and play 18 holes in an afternoon at a fee course. The layout is a rather tame 6,195 yards from the middle tees, but it can reach up and bite. The eighth hole, a 230-yard par 3, is a bit of a test. To reach the green, you must carry a creek that cuts across the area just in front of the collar.
Pine trees surround the green, which is guarded on the left by a large bunker.
On our outing, several days of heavy rain had ruined No. 4, a 479-yard par 5 that otherwise seemed to be a solid hole. Take lots of repellent. Marsh says the back nine is an example of the benefits of early aeration. That nine was aerated two weeks before the front, and greens have rebounded to impressive shape.