Green Valley Ranch Golf Club

Very rude staff that thinks the course is a 5 star facility. Will not go back

First course I actually played in Colorado. Well it was a very well maintained course. Its a bit challenging for me since I don't play often. The only thing that I could say that really bothered me was the pushy marshal on the course. They were surveying the course for the Colorado Open so they were holding us up while the marshal was giving us a hard time about playing so slowly. The day we decided to go wasn't a weekend or anything, so they shouldn't have a problem with us playing slower. We finally played through. I guess with my personality its easy to ignore rude people. But all in all, a fun day. I would recommend this course to anyone. The clubhouse staff is also very helpful.

Green Valley Ranch is the perfect example of a good course with poor management. This Perry Dye course is consistent with another Perry Dye course I've played (Auburn Hills in Wichita, Kansas) in that he preserves much of the natural habitat and utilizes natural terrain with strategically placed water hazards to make the course challanging. I enjoyed the course, but what I didn't enjoy was the pace of play. We teed off at 8:30 and at 1pm (yes, 4 and a half hours) later we had just finished 15 holes. Normally I would just write this off as a slow day, but we were playing with a local that assured us this was pretty much standard pace of play. He always allows 5 to 6 hours when he plays this course. We didn't see a marshal until hole 14 and when I asked what the hold up was he just shrugged his shoulders and said "play is slow" (like I hadn't noticed). We finally gave up headed in and found the culprits were a threesome on 17 - with 18 wide open. The range marshal took absolutely no action to speed up pace of play. I'd love to play this course again, hopefully they will address the pace of play issue.