I performed at Wolf Creek Golf Hyperlinks, Inc., positioned in Olathe, Kansas a few weeks in the past in a Kansas Metropolis Cup match and should say it was a really lovely golf course. We gained the match, which can have made it that a lot better, however I assumed publish my evaluate of the course whereas it was nonetheless recent in my thoughts.
If you do not know about Wolf Creek or hadn’t heard of it, you’re in for a deal with. To begin with, it’s a males’s solely membership. And meaning actually no ladies allowed. The bartenders are males. The cart ladies are males. All people there’s a man. It’s truly sort of a wierd expertise, however I suppose some persons are searching for that sort of setting.
That it is just males makes it a really unique golf course, and it’s 100% personal (aside from occasions just like the KC Cup, the place we bought to play due to the format). I do not know the precise dues required to turn out to be a member, however based mostly on the form of the course, I am certain they’re fairly giant.
The course itself, though positioned in Olathe, Kansas may be very remoted. It’s within the southernmost a part of Olathe, out in the midst of a bunch of fields. The seclusion gives nice tranquility and an amazing {golfing} expertise.
Driving as much as the course isn’t an imposing expertise such as you might need at another unique locations. The clubhouse is modest, neither extraordinarily extravagant nor shoddy. There’s a bar, a locker room, and a eating room, amongst different rooms (post-round I did look a poker desk positioned at the back of a room stuffed with gents enjoying in what I’m going to imagine was a pleasant recreation). The course is gated, however once more, doesn’t give off the air of one thing as unique as it’s rumored to be.
I believe the rationale the clubhouse and amenities are so modest is twofold. First, with solely guys there, how extravagant does it must be? Is not it cool sufficient simply to say you belong to an all-male golf membership? Second, by the form of the course – it was beautiful – it seems that all of their cash goes again into sustaining and upgrading the golf course itself.
Beginning off, the vary was very good. It’s grass, they a bunch of balls arrange in vary ball baggage at every station (about 20 stations), and so they have a bunch of baggage stuffed with tees in your indulgence. Off the vary, you hit to a number of completely different flag sticks at a number of completely different yardages. It was in nice form.
In case you ever play right here, a few putts on the inexperienced is a should. The greens are agency and quick, and superbly reduce. They roll true, however take some getting used to as a result of they’re sooner than your common inexperienced. For me, honestly, the day we performed I assumed the greens had been simply marginally quick. However I believe that was as a result of we performed so early within the season. In the course of the summer time, I might see them being lightning quick.
As for the course itself, there’s a variety of undulation and a variety of holes with little to no undulation. There are two par threes particularly, one on the entrance 9, one on the again, that I significantly appreciated. The primary was barely downhill with water guarding the entrance and proper aspect of the inexperienced (everybody missed lengthy and left – go determine). The opposite par three sits excessive on the tee field earlier than descending what should be no less than 100 ft to the inexperienced. It’s a implausible wanting tee shot.
General, I would fee the course a 9 out of 10. The course was nice from tee to inexperienced, and I had a good time. The one factor holding it again from being a ten was that wow issue (though certainly one of my opponents was a former main league all-star pitcher – that was cool – and he was an honest golfer). It was a really good course, however once I was completed I did not really feel completely different as a golfer – that is what a ten takes from me.