RT’s Review of Dr. Charles L. Sifford Golf Course on 8/29/24

Dr. Charles L. Sifford Golf Course

Date: 8/29/24 Thu Morning
Overall Rating:

"Great course"
Conditions: Good - normal wear/tear
Pace: < 3 Hours
Cost: $17
Username: RT
Profile: Frequent Golfer (about once a month)
Handicap: 8.0
Today's Score: 37
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Shout out for the Dr. Charles L. Sifford Course. I have a 50-year+ love-hate relationship with this course. It’s a compact and occasionally quirky layout, and there is always an eclectic crowd, with lots of beginners who (simply through lack of experience) struggle with navigating the course and observing standard golf etiquette. Pace of play can be an issue. The course has also undergone several management changes. All that said, it is a very well maintained muni. The fairways are old-school bermuda, which loves the heat, so the turf really pops in August and September. If you want to experience the DCLS course, play it now, in peak condition. Fairways were full with premium lies all day. Greens are dense, with a smooth, consistent surface and surprisingly fast downhill. Tee boxes are beat up due to the volume of play. Play the tips on this short course for better boxes. The starter is not very organized, and the marshals do not really enforce pace of play. However, you can almost always get on this course and can walk it on a weekday for ~$20, which is a great value. A real mixed bag of holes, with some relatively long and difficult ones (1, 7, and 9, with a 200+ yard force-carry over a hazard to a tight fairway from the back tee) combined with a couple near-drivable par fours. It has a lot of personality and, for me, fond memories of playing here with my father as a kid, which keeps bringing me back.