Ray Stackhouse

Review of Ron Jaworski Blue Heron Golf C...

Played on Sunday after booking five tee times the ...

Played on Sunday after booking five tee times the Monday before. We were told that they had aerated a couple of weeks before. Upon arrival we found the practice putting green to be a pockmarked mess. I asked an employee if the greens on the course were similar and he said yes. He had worked there the previous Sunday and told us that is when they had aerated some of the greens. While in the bar after our round, I struck up a conversation with a guy who said he lived on the course and that he had seen them aerating during the week. So, apparently, we had been misled by the guy who took our tee-time reservation. Most of us were from the Delaware County area, so the ride was at least an hour to get there.
While waiting to tee off, the starter informed us that they had slipped in a foursome among our five groups. And they happened to be walking the course on a Sunday around 10am. Despite raising an objection, the starter said there was nothing he could do. Our foursome behind the interlopers waited on every shot.
Course was in poor shape, with very thin, spotty grass on fairways, chunky, choppy rough, uneven bunkers that looked like they had dropped the aerated plug marks in many of them and, of course, greens that were nothing but a bumpy rug.
And to make matters worse, our buddy who booked our tee times found out the next day that his credit card had a charge on it for an additional foursome. Upon calling the course to question why, he was told that one of our group had not paid. Why he got banged for a whole foursome I do not know. They gave him a rash of excrement when he tried to get them to cancel the charge before finally doing so. Our group does not try to sneak on golf courses, so I believe they would have discovered the error (if there really was one) as we teed off had the starter checked our receipts. I was in our fourth group and had asked the starter if he needed to see my receipt and he had said it wasn't necessary. Perhaps they should change that policy.
Suffice it to say, Mr. Jaworski will not be seeing us spending our dough for green fees at his course, nor in the pro shop, halfway-house or bar ever again.