Played Renaissance 9/28 and the greens are in terrible shape. Many dead spots and various lengths of grass on the greens. It’s impossible to putt and feel that anything you’re doing is going to make a difference as there is too much interference with the state of the greens for any putt to be accurate. The fairways were fine. The bunkers were actually very nicely kept and well-raked. I felt like someone there felt so bad about the greens being terrible that they thought they would at least make the bunkers playable.
Emerald Lake, which we played two weeks ago had bad greens as well. Almost as bad as Renaissance. Lots of crab grass on them and the crab grass didn’t get mown down with the other grass so many putts you’re putting through pieces of crab grass sticking up. Plus, lots of ! dead spots. The back 9 was better than the front, but not great.
It’s a shame. These both used to be decent courses (Emerald Lake used to be really nice). It’s been one of the rainiest and cooler summers in the 15 years I’ve lived here. If you can’t keep your greens up this summer, when will you be able too? Plus, they were both way too expensive for what you get – even on tee off or golf now – I think we paid $70 bucks for 2 people for Emerald Lake and $50 for Renaissance. If we had just paid at the club house we would have given up and asked for our money back. Not sure how that works on the discount web-sites. They need to charge a lot less if their courses are in such bad shape.
Tega Cay was really nice. Worth any extra money.