Art Golfer

Review of Murphy Creek Golf Course

An excellent golf course, well maintained and fun ...

An excellent golf course, well maintained and fun to play. Great practice facilities! Several greens on which you can pitch and chip, plus good putting green and huge driving range. My only complaint is also one of my pet peeves about golf courses in general: They have 5 sets of tees so, theoretically, you can choose the yardages you want to play. BUT, they often then move the tee markers up to a closer tee box. Why do they do that? It takes away the players' choices. It also disrupts the handicap system (different rating and slope!). No golf course should do that. And what makes me angriest is that the only reason they do that that I can see is to speed up play to the benefit of golf course income! For example, the 18th hole from the gold tee box is 413 yards. They moved the markers up to the red tee box--only 352 yards!!! That's ridiculous. The 8th hole is a par 3 172-yarder from the gold tees. They moved the markers up to the red tee box and made it a 129-yarder. And yet, the proper tee boxes for the gold tees WERE OPEN (you guessed it--that's where they put the White tee markers!!! Folks, this is not golf. They need to wake up. I complained afterwards and the young man said he'd pass the information on. In the meantime, I have sour thoughts about what would otherwise be a great golf course.