Willbrook Plantation, Heritage Club, True Blue conditions?

I have not seen a maint list.  
Most courses would have overseeded by now, but some wait until Nov.   

Willbrook conditions were fine. It seems like a weird time where the bermuda is going dormant while overseed is growing in.

Its a neat little golf course with a lot of tee shots that look much harder than they actually are. The spanish moss trees that line many of the holes make it feel very low country.  I also felt it was super forgiving and the length was perfect. I accidentally left my golf balls at home and didnt realize til i got there which was a bad mistake as they only sold extremely over priced taylor made balls. Like 17 over msrp. Ranger came and bitched we needed to pick up pace which we did only to find ourselves waiting on every tee box for the remainder of round.

I like Myrtle Beach as but golf here just feels like youre at a factory. They try to squeeze too many people through and it feels rushed. The split tees is annoying and POP sucks. And it feels that they're just nickel and diming you plus making the rounds take way too long. Its just obvious they have way too many people on the course at once. This part wasnt about Willbrook as it was about the area as a whole. I get they are a business but it severely impacts the experience.

If i didnt have family ties here, idk if I would want to come here for a golf trip. I guess that is the price you pay for affordability. 

@mw2023 
 
Bermuda being replaced by overseed is what you see this time of year every year in MB.   
   
Pace of play everywhere these days is poor, unless a private course or a lucky day with
no slow groups. 
 
One way to play faster, if you are a early bird, is to get a first off tee time at single tee 
courses.     
Lockwood - BF Fazio - BF Norman - Wild Wing(Avocet) - MW(Palmetto) - Brick Landing 
  
These courses Single Tee usually, but they don't have to:
Tigers Eye - Leopards Chase - Panthers Run - Cape Fear - Surf - The Dunes - Whispering Pines - Rivers Edge    
 
Thanks for reporting.  

Had a instance at Arrowhead last summer, was moving nice but we were a foursome and they put a twosome behind us so at times they were up our behind and others not. Then a ranger goes by us says hi and keep up good work. I look back and twosome is complaining to him and boom here comes the ranger, he starts with you need to pick it up and blah blah. I lost it on him, he was like oh I didn't realize the group in front just teed off, so I was like maybe you should have made them a foursome. After the round he sees me coming in and leaves the cart area, lol. 

I wish they cared more about pace of play in MB. Last time I was at Grande Dunes (which I don't even rate very highly as a course) it took us 6 hours to play and they couldn't care less.

Compare that to Reynolds Lake Oconee, which doesn't cost that much more than MB does now that MB prices have skyrocketed, and they are right on top of it with rangers strictly monitoring the pace of play on every course. They don't want you to take much longer than 4 hours to play and it was great; we loved being able to go out and play golf at a reasonable pace without a bunch of sitting and waiting.

While no one enjoys having a ranger tell them they need to speed up, I would much rather have a ranger telling me I'm 2 minutes behind pace and need to pick it up than to have either no rangers or ones who do not care if it's a 5+ hour round.

Popular courses that fill the tee sheets, should not be afraid of losing the 
crazy slow golfers.  There are more good pace golfers to fill their spots. 
 
Pace isn't just a MB problem.  Our home courses just don't have a forum to 
tell the pace stories.   
 
It would be interesting if a course anywhere would advertise a max 4 hour pace, 
that will be rangered.  Tell golfers again when they book or pay.     
It could start as 1 day of the week or even just AM.    🙂  

@artmbgolf Reynolds Lake Oconee does this. All of their courses have GPS on the carts that track your pace of play, and if you're even 2 minutes behind, a ranger will tell you you have to speed up or you'll be asked to skip a hole, even if there's no one waiting behind you. And they actually will make people skip holes. They are incredibly strict and it's actually wonderful.

But they don't take general public tee times. You have to be a member or staying at the resort to play the courses, which probably helps.

@artmbgolf thanks appreciate that list. I wasnt sure there were sure there were sny courses that single tee.

I am all for 4 hour or less rounds. Now you want glacier pace, women's college golf is SO SLOW, I am saying at D2 level. Daughter said one round was almost 7 hours with lift clean and place. Plus throw in some teams have 4 and 5 golfers are not as good as you think they should be plus so many don't understand or know rules. 

@artmbgolf i definitely dont think the busy courses would notice. 8 mins apart is just so aggressive. My muni went from 8 to 10 ad now 12 min spacing on tee times and it has really helped POP. If I tee off within first hour pop is usually 4:15 max. Rangers will say something if youre falling behind. People just need to learn to play ready golf.

@mw2023 That's by far the biggest issue. People just sit in the golf cart, watch their cart partner hit, then drive over to their ball and start getting their yardage etc. They should be doing all of that while their cart partner hits so that they can play their shot within a minute.

It's even worse on the greens; people will just stand there and watch others putt and only then will they start walking around to try to read/line up their putt. There are groups that are pretty fast tee to green and then like molasses on the green.